SOLDSALEM GRAND VILLA
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A fifth wheel is worth more than a travel trailer of the same age and harder to sell to anyone who doesn't already own a three-quarter-ton truck. That's a small pool of private buyers.
SOLDWe buy fifth wheels and park models of every size, including the big multi-slide units that most buyers can't tow and most lots don't want to store. Toy haulers included. You don't need the truck, the hitch or a place to put it while it sells.
GET MY OFFER →Not a formula from a book written for a national market. These are the things we actually look at on this type of unit, in Florida.
A fifth wheel lives or dies on its slides. Working ones add thousands; seized ones are a known repair we price in without drama.
Frame flex around the pin box is the one structural issue we check hard. It's rare, and when it's clean it's worth saying so.
The garage changes the buyer pool completely. If yours has a ramp door and tie-downs, that's its own market and usually a better one.
If it's been sitting on a site with a carport and a deck, we still buy it — and we handle taking it off the site.
A fifth wheel's private buyer pool is limited to people who already own the truck to pull it. Knowing the number up front tells you whether waiting for that buyer is worth the months it takes.
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The pin box area and the frame directly behind it, then each slide in and out. Frame flex is rare and expensive; seized slides are common and manageable. Knowing which one you have changes the number substantially.
A fifth wheel needs equipment most buyers do not own, which is exactly why the private market for one is so thin. We bring what it takes, including for park models that have not moved in years.
GET MY OFFER →Yes, including the multi-slide 40-footers most buyers can't tow. Size doesn't scare us and we bring our own equipment.
We buy them and usually pay well for them. The garage widens the buyer pool considerably compared with a standard floorplan.
Yes. Park model removals are routine for us — we deal with the site, the skirting and the utilities disconnect.
It doesn't — we come to it. Every fifth wheel we buy is towed out by us and that's already inside the number we quote.
Yes, and you never touch the move. We arrive with a truck rated for the pin weight and the right hitch height, hook up, and take it out. That includes units with dead batteries, seized landing gear or flat tires, which we handle using jacks and dollies. Owners who sold the truck first are one of the most common calls we get.
Yes. A room that will not extend, retract or seal is normal on the units we purchase, and it prices as a known repair rather than a deal breaker. Tell us whether the slide is stuck in or stuck out, since one frozen in the extended position changes how we transport the unit and what equipment the driver brings.
Toy haulers usually carry a premium over a comparable non-garage unit, because the buyers who want one have fewer options to choose from. That premium depends on the ramp sealing, the tie-downs being solid and the garage decking being dry. A hauler with a leaking ramp and a spongy garage floor prices below a clean standard floorplan of the same length.
Yes, including park models sitting inside RV resorts and mobile home communities. The complication is width and transport rather than value. Anything over eight and a half feet wide requires a permitted move, which we arrange and pay for. If the community requires written notice or a specific removal window, mention it early and we work inside their rules.
We still buy it, and the number reflects a known repair rather than a guess. Seized slides are common on units that have sat in Florida heat with dry seals. What matters is whether the mechanism itself failed or just the seals, and we can usually tell from photos before anyone drives anywhere.
Yes. Skirting, decks, carports, sheds and utility hookups are all part of the job and none of it needs to be removed before we arrive. Trying to dismantle it yourself first tends to create damage that lowers the offer rather than raising it.
Every fifth wheel carries a requirement that shrinks its audience to almost nothing. The buyer needs a three-quarter-ton or one-ton truck, a hitch already mounted in the bed, and enough confidence to back twelve thousand pounds into a site. That is a small group in this state, and most of the people in it already own one. So a clean unit sits for months while the seller walks the asking price down in increments and answers questions from tire-kickers who have no way to take it home. Toy haulers narrow the pool again, because the buyer also has to want a garage on wheels. Park models are harder still, since anything wider than eight and a half feet needs a permitted transporter and an approved route, not a pickup. None of that reflects the unit itself. It is pure logistics.
The check most owners skip is the front third of the frame. A fifth wheel hangs enormous weight ahead of the axles, and years of that load combined with slide cycling can flex the rails behind the pin box. The tell is a wrinkle in the front cap fiberglass, an entry door that stopped latching square, or a room that suddenly needs a shove to start moving. Certain mid-2000s builders are known for it. We look every time, and finding it does not end the deal.
Slides are where the money lives on this body style and where the money goes. Tell us how many there are, whether each runs all the way out and back under its own power, and whether the room drops or scrapes at the end of travel. Hydraulic, cable and Schwintek rack systems each fail in their own way. Check the topper awnings and wiper seals too, since a leak along the top rail soaks the floor beneath.
Look at the kingpin plate for gouging, and at the pin box mounting bolts for elongated holes or fresh paint hiding a repair. Then run the landing gear all the way down and back up. Legs that groan, crab or stop halfway usually indicate a stripped gearbox or a leg bent from parking on soft ground. On air-ride pin boxes we want to know whether the bag still holds pressure overnight.
The bedroom sits over the hitch and takes weather from two directions. Water enters at the front cap seam, at the corner molding above the mattress, and around the slide flanges on the upper deck. Kneel on the bedroom floor and along the front wall. If the carpet feels cool or the trim has pulled away at a corner, moisture has been sitting there. That area is the most common failure point on these.
If it is a hauler, the garage gets valued separately. We need the cargo length, whether the ramp still seals and latches on both sides, and whether the ramp cables or springs have been serviced. Check the tie-down rings for pulled fasteners and the garage decking for fuel staining or separation near the drains. A fuel station and onboard generator that both function add genuine value.
Give us the brand, model number, length and slide count, plus honest notes on the rooms, the pin box and the bedroom floor. We check the wholesale market for that specific floorplan, since two units of identical length can sit far apart in demand, and we come back with a number. Once you accept, we send a truck rated for the weight with the correct hitch height, or a lowboy when the unit cannot be pulled conventionally. Wide park models get a permitted transport arranged entirely on our side. No part of the move is your expense or your liability. We hand over payment at the unit as soon as the title is signed.
Tell us the length and whether the slides work. Fifth wheels get an answer the same day and we bring our own equipment.
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Run the slides in and out if you can, and look at the frame where the pin box mounts. Those are the two answers that move a fifth wheel's number most.
