Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs

If anyone is thinking about this, please do research into how crappy modern, mass-produced RVs are built.

Lemon Laws do not apply to RVs (except maybe in one state).

Many RVs can easily spend most of a year waiting to get a single item half-assed repaired multiple times while the 1 year warranty runs out and the 20 other things don't get fixed.

There is a relatively-new YouTube channel called Liz Amazing that showcases RV horror stories, including the most recent one where a luxury RV manufacturer didn't properly install VINs on the RV leading to a $600k fine for the user:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zGOANydJURQ

I watched several videos from the Liz Amazing YT-link you provided — very thoughtful content from two obviously-compatible sunbirders.

Her overall recommendations tend to recommend older, well-taken-care-of models over the newer less-expensive trash being mass-produced. Get a PROFESSIONAL INSPECTION before purchasing any RV particularly if your first purchase, and buy from a local person (instead of a dealership).

Really loved that some of Liz's most-popular videos weren't about RVs, particularly her Introduction to Electric Bicycles (helpful as we've gotten older).

By least-favorite brother (maker of terrible decisions™) lived in an RV for about two years, and it was absolutely embarassing to the neighborhood... just a squalor'd pig-stye.

If anybody near Chattanooga wants to restore an old Airstream, I know a guy... [that owns a dozen, variously delapidated]

Tangent... I've always thought a custom resto-mod Airstream Bambi would make for a rad little travel trailer. Scrap the wet bath, ditch the propane, add a pile of LiFePo4 batteries and flexible solar, run it all off 12V. Probably end up costing $60k or more, so probably never happen. Oh well.

I recently left a job at an electric resto-mod / conversion startup — the battery chemistries continue advancing while affordability per kWH increases. Hope you can convert your dreams into something special (which you could achieve for much less than $60k)!

If anybody wants to attempt such a rad little travel trailer conversion, I know a guy with several in-need-of-work Airstreams (not sure specific model, but the "iconic" classic -type).

Last spring, Owner literally cut both ends off the crappiest trailer and made it into a bridge across one of his littler creeks (please buy his Airstreams — the neighborhood/environment would appreciate it).