SOLDPILGRIM TRAVEL TRAILER
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Travel trailers are the most common RV in Florida and the one most likely to be sitting unused behind a house right now, quietly getting worse every rainy season.
SOLDWe buy travel trailers of every length — 16-foot weekenders through 40-foot bunkhouses. Bumper pull, no tow vehicle required on your end, and no need to move it from wherever it's been parked. Most of what we buy in this category comes out of a driveway, a storage lot or a spot behind a barn.
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.
On a towable there's no engine to carry value, so the roof and the seams are almost the whole conversation. Four good photos of the roof get you close to a real number before you call.
Under 26 feet has the widest buyer pool. Over 35 feet is a smaller market but often a better unit. We price both honestly.
Tires that have sat for years are expected and cheap. Bent axles or a dragging frame are the ones that matter.
Family floorplans with bunks move faster than couples' layouts in Florida. If yours has bunks, say so.
Most travel trailers sit on Marketplace for months because the asking price was a guess. Get the range first and you'll know within ten seconds whether selling outright beats the wait.
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Roof membrane, seam sealant and the corners where the walls meet the front cap. Delamination shows up there before it shows up anywhere you can see from the ground.
Towable pricing lives or dies on the roof, so we look at it rather than guessing from the year. That is the difference between a real offer and a range designed to get you in the door.
GET MY OFFER →Anywhere from a few hundred for a water-damaged older unit to well over ten thousand for a newer bunkhouse in good shape. The roof condition moves the number more than the year does.
Yes, always. You don't need a truck, a hitch or a brake controller. Towing is included in the offer, not deducted from it.
Yes. Soft floors and delamination are the most common thing we see on Florida towables. Disclose it and the offer is honest; hide it and we both waste a trip.
Yes. Give us the facility name, the space number and the gate access, and we'll handle the rest without you being there.
Yes, leaking trailers are a routine purchase. Water damage changes the figure, it does not end the conversation. The frame, axles, appliances, converter and aluminum all retain value even when the ceiling is stained and the front corner has gone soft. Describe where the water shows up inside, and we factor it once, honestly, instead of renegotiating with you at pickup.
A trailer that has sat unused for years is usually worth less than the owner expects, mostly because of the roof and the tires rather than any miles it never accumulated. Sitting causes seal failure, rodent entry, dead batteries and flat-spotted rubber. The cabin can look untouched while the decking above the ceiling panel is already compromised.
No. Repairs on a towable almost never return what they cost at sale time. A professional roof reseal, a floor patch or a set of new tires will not raise our figure by what you paid for them, because we buy condition as it stands and perform that work at our own cost afterward. Sell it as it sits and keep the repair money.
Most trailers get collected within a day or two of agreeing on a figure, and same-day happens often when the unit sits near Davenport or the Tampa Bay area. Storage facilities with gate hours and HOA driveways with tight turns take a little coordination. Describe the access situation upfront and we build the schedule around it.
Longer than most owners expect. Listings on Marketplace and Craigslist routinely sit for two to four months here, because the buyer pool wants to inspect in person, haggle on price and then arrange towing they usually cannot do themselves. Meanwhile the unit keeps aging in the sun and the storage bill keeps arriving.
In Florida it does. Family layouts with bunks have a wider buyer pool than couples' floorplans, and that shows up directly in what we can pay. If yours has bunks, a rear kitchen or an outdoor kitchen, mention it in the first message.
There are more bumper-pull trailers parked around this state than any other kind of RV, and a large share of them have not been camped in since the year they were purchased. That volume is the problem. When a shopper opens a marketplace app, forty comparable trailers appear within an hour's drive, most priced by owners who looked up a guide number and never adjusted it. Yours competes against all of them simultaneously. Meanwhile the clock keeps running on the component that actually decides the value. With no drivetrain to carry the price, the roof and its seams are close to the entire valuation, and a rubber membrane cooking outdoors with neglected lap sealant fails on a schedule regardless of how good the interior looks.
Layout moves these units more than model year does. A double-over-double bunkhouse with an outside kitchen sells quickly because it fits a family with two kids and a half-ton truck. A rear-living floorplan with two recliners and a fireplace competes against every other rear-living unit ever built. Owners tend to price on age and forget that a seven-year-old bunkhouse in dry condition outperforms a three-year-old couples coach with a stained ceiling. Tell us the layout, not just the length.
This is the whole ballgame on a towable. Get a ladder, or a phone on a pole, and look. Is the membrane EPDM rubber or TPO, is it chalky and cracking or still flexible, and is the lap sealant around the vents and the front seam intact or split open. A resealed roof with receipts raises our figure. An unknown roof gets priced conservatively, because we have to assume the worst case in the substrate.
Walk the interior barefoot and press on the walls. Sponginess near the entry step or a rear corner means water has been sitting in the decking for a while. Outside, sight down the sidewall from the front corner. Waves, bubbles or a rippled pattern in the fiberglass mean the lamination has separated from the frame. Both conditions are common here and neither stops a sale. They just belong on the table before pricing.
A trailer that has occupied the same patch of grass for six years has flat-spotted tires, dry bearings and probably a seized brake or two. Check the four-digit date code stamped on the sidewall. Anything past six years is aged out no matter how deep the tread looks. Also watch for an axle sitting noticeably lower on one side, which usually means a broken spring or a tube bent by a hard bottom-out.
A 22-foot trailer under 5,000 pounds dry can be pulled by half the trucks and SUVs on the road. A 36-foot triple-axle demands a serious rig and a buyer pool that does not exist locally in the same numbers. Give us the length, the dry weight off the yellow sticker, the slide count, and whether it has bunks. That combination sets the ceiling before condition adjusts anything downward.
Send the year, brand, length and a handful of photos, including one of the roof if you can safely get up there. We compare it against what comparable towables have actually been selling for around here recently, not what they are listed for, and we come back with a firm figure. Approve it and we schedule a pickup that fits your day. Our driver arrives with the correct ball or pintle, straps, and a plan for flat tires. You hitch nothing, tow nothing and follow nobody. Title signed, payment handed over on the spot, and the pad, driveway or storage slot belongs to you again.
Year, make and four photos of the roof. On a towable that's what sets the number, and we tow it away ourselves.
CALL NOW (407) 533-8871On the Tampa Bay side? Call (813) 679-9551 instead.
Get up on a ladder and photograph the roof, the seams and around the vents. On a towable that's the whole valuation in four pictures.
