DO NOT BUY A NEWER RV!
When I bought this RV, it was because I was in a desperate situation. I had to get out of a toxic situation in Ontario. My plan was to move to BC. Buy an RV and start a fresh life. Seemed fool-proof in theory. In practice,... it has been a nightmare.
What annoys me most of all is that I did my homework. I researched RV's for 5 months before I bought one. The one thing I did hear over and over again from the RV community was that RV's built after covid (around 2020) are all manufacturing GARBAGE! But the problem with that is,... that RV Parks will only allow new RV's to use their parks now. Ten years old and newer. So I had to buy a newer RV so I would have parks accept me for the next 8 years. Anything after 2016 will not get you into any RV parks. The system doens't allow you to buy older, better built RV's. So we are forced to buy newer ones and then we have all found out newer ones are garbage!
I have a 2024 Rockwook Mini-lite. 26 foot. It looks beautiful!! When I walked onto the "Arbutus RV sales lot" I asked to see 4 season RV's. The sales men immediately said on Vancouver island you won't need a four season RV. Luckily for me I had my cousin with me and he immediately cut him off and said we only want to see 4 season RV's. They only had 4. I looked at the one I bought and i fell in love. It was beautiful. All shiny and clean and sleek looking. Both Brian and I gave it a good going over and saw nothing to concern us.
I went ahead and paid $51,000 for this RV.
I was promised it was turn-key. No problems - just move in and enjoy.
Lets move ahead to last night. I WAS FROZEN. I have learned that this trailer has no way to maintain the heat. It instantly disappears through this shoddily built tin can. When the furnace is on (run by very expensive propane) I am warm. But 5 minutes after the furnace shuts off it is freezing again. All the heat has disappeared. Last night I didn't even sleep I was so cold. I sat up in 3 layers of clothes. A winter hat and blanket with a hearting pad plugged into a bluetti charger (as plugging it into my wiring would short it out).
I was still cold. Toasty warm when the furnace ran,... but after it stopped the cold rushes right back.
To date I have spent so much money I have gone into debt. When I started this move I had over $100,000.00. Today I am in debt. This RV hemorrhaged money out of my bank account. Every day something new broke I had to replace. I have spent thousands on repairs just to make it livable and I have only been in it for less than 3 months.
I belong to a few Facebook RV groups and I am seeing that I am not the only one who has been scammed by this industry. THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of people are facing the same harsh reality. The Rv's we spent our life savings on, are garbage. I only lost $100,000.00 but there are people who paid well over $200,000 (and more) for their new RV's for a fresh new start and almost all of these folk are regreeting their buy.
RV manufacturing is a joke. Everything they produce now is garbage. And, WE, the consumer are paying for it.
I myself have decided that my life has to end. I have been scammed,... used,.... conned and bullied once too often and now I have given up. I am old,... disabled and in pain. I refuse to live my last few years in a freezing tin can miserable. Unable to get the health care I need I am deciding to give up.
Last night was horrible. FREEZING cold. I dont deserve this. I did my homework. I did everything right and yet life scammed me anyway.
I am learning that life will never let me win.
To the people making and selling RV's. STOP taking good folks money just to have them watch their homes fall apart right infront of their eyes.
Our dreams,.... our hard earned money,.... GONE. Stolen by an industry that just doens't care what happens once that tin can drives off their lot.
Well I, and many, many others are paying for it.
Every single day I find something else that is broken and will cost me more money to fix. Well as of today I no longer put one more penny into this lemon. Infact,... I am thinking of how I can walk away from this RV altogerther. It's a badly built tin can that can't even hold any heat. And I am stuck with it. Can't sell it as it has depreciated so much I wouldn't get my money back. But I can't live in it. You can't live in a place that you have to wear a winter hat and 3 layers of clothes to stay warm.
I did not deserve this. But I am too tired to care anymore,....
I just want to be gone now. Die of a heart attack and escape this mess.
I hate my life and just want to die now. And with my heart problem, that probobly won't be long from now. I would say weeks rather than months i will be dead.
And after the past 10 years ~ I couldn't be happier I will die.
Get me off this unfair horrible planet ~ I have had enough.
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