1995 Airstream Excella 1000 34 feet long selling for $10,000

[sherlock]

Hello! I am new to this forum and also new to caravanning. For some times now I have been looking to buy a good travel trailer. I never owned a trailer before. My first idea was to get a trailer between 20 and 24 feet long. After much reading I have learned that Airstream trailers are the best.

However, to buy one new around here (Quebec, Canada), there is only one dealer in the province and the price is cruelly expensive. From what I learned for another camping forum in my province, I should expect to pay around $50,000 Canadian for a 24 footers. This is a lot of money. In this forum they say a 30 footers would go for $80,000 from what a member saw at the last RV show in Montreal.

That kind of dampened my enthusiasm. This weekend I went to my local RV dealer to see what they had. I found a 20 footers from the Palomino brand if I am not mistaken. I liked the way the interior was design. The price was also right $18,000. But I was very disappointed about the quality of the material and the assemblage. This was a brand new trailer and it was already showing signs of wear from the people who previously visited it. You could see the wear in the fake wood tapestry covering the particles board cupboards.

Then today I looked on the web and saw this gorgeous 1995 Airstream Excella 1000 34 feet long selling for $14495 Canadian (around $10000 US). I wrote them asking him to send me more pictures so I could have a good look at it. He did. The trailer is sparkling clean and it looks almost new. He said he is selling it because he is divorcing and his wife wants her share. He said he paid $32000 for it in 2005 and he only used it 2 years. He also said that everything is in perfect working condition except the water heater that need to be changed and the carpets need to be washed.

I am having a hard time believing I could get a 34 footers Airstream for that price. Brand new it probably would be well over $100,000 witch I will never have the means to buy.

My questions are: does this seem to be a good deal? And what am I to look for when I will visit? Any particular points I should pay attention that would show how well this trailer had faired during the last 14 years? Any advice or pointer would be appreciated.

Thank you for your attention.

PS Sorry for the long post.