Or maybe they’re just people who think hotels suck. Or travel a LOT which makes hotels very expensive. Or maybe they’re people who like spontaneous travel which doesn’t work well with hotels. Or maybe they’re just plain smarter than you and Mrs Abb.
Perhaps. But I can say one thing for sure. I'm a loan officer for a local credit union, and have to sign off on all the loans. As a large part of our customer base are construction types, we make many loans on fifth wheel trailers. The depreciation on travel trailers is double that of trucks/cars. So you're upside down the whole time you own it. Whenever we have to repo, I cringe, because I know we have a huge write off coming.
Said another way, you'll never get what you paid for it, never. If the 'worth' you feel you get for its use outweighs the depreciation, then I say buy one.
But I ain't.