Keeping the original RV furniture - RV-Dreams Community Forum

rheadabovewater · RV-Dreams Family Member

Keeping the original RV furniture

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Roberta,

If you still have the fifth wheel financed, I recommend keeping the furniture. If you were to fall on hard times and the fifth wheel get repossessed, the finance company/bank would probably require that the unit be furnished as it was when you bought it.

If it is paid off, then do as you wish. Should you later decide to sell, just inform the buyers that you may be keeping the furniture and that they would be getting it unfurnished. Now, should they want the fifth wheel furnished as a condition of sale, then you might would have to find some more furniture that would be suitable to them.

With that in mind, should you change furniture and later sell, be sure and refurnish it before any buyers have a chance to see it. But, then again, potential buyers might like the idea of picking out their own furniture.

Wow!!! Look at the can of worms we've opened.

Point is, if it is paid off, do what you want.

Terry

rheadabovewater · RV-Dreams Family Member

Thanks Terry! I paid cash for my RV, used my severance to buy it - best thing I've ever done, it's saving me $1000/month where I live. : )

The RV came with a dining table and four chairs, which I don't use. I threw them into storage, figuring I'd keep them just in case.

Unfortunately the hide-a-bed will be very difficult to get out of the 5er - I've been told I might have to actually move it out one of the windows - plus it's very heavy. But I'd sure like to get my comfy couch in there.

Thanks, Roberta

-- Edited by rheadabovewater on Wednesday 25th of August 2010 03:15:12 PM

Mallo · RV-Dreams Family Member

It's yours replace the furniture with stuff you like just make sure you can get it in and out.

As to the remove a window odd mostly the furniture comes apart so it can go in and out of the door most anything you go to move in will have to also come apart so it can go in and out of the door.

I'd take a closer look at it I'll be you'll find that there are screws you can remove to break it down.

Mallo

Luvglass · RV-Dreams Family Member

Roberta,

Go for it, it's your home, make it the way you are most comfortable. The only piece of original RV furniture we have left is one end table. we have replaced everything else with comfortable furniture of our liking. We also never used the dining table and chairs, they were the first to go.

We hardly ever have overnight guests, so also got rid of the sleeper sofa, and bought a blow up mattress if we do have a need.

Since we love to read and watch TV, we bought 2 large, very comfortable Lazy Boy recliners and finished the room with additional book cases and storage units. We have 2 foldup chairs we bring in when we have company over for dinner or drinks.

Just because it's on wheels doesn't mean it can't be comfortable and "home".

rheadabovewater · RV-Dreams Family Member

Thank you Fred!

Delaine and Lindy · RV-Dreams Family Member

We haven't used our RV funiture in our last four 5th wheels. We have Lazy Boy Love seat which is a re-cline away and a Lazy Boy recliner. We have no couch, we have a large furr kid and the extra area is his area. We have never found any RV funiture that was comfortable or very good. Most RV funiture is so over priced. In the past we would give the RV funiture to Goodwill and write it off our taxes. We called the RV manufactor to get a pirce to replace it, the last replacement cost for a couch was $1,500. Just over priced in opinion. When we ordered the 2010 Mobile Suites we deleted the couch and let the two Ultra Leather recliners stay with the trade in. Just make sure you measure the replcement funiture and make sure you slides will close. GBY...

The Bear II · RV-Dreams Family Member

Ditto to all of the above. We just replaced our recliners last year with Lazy Boy models.

Also replaced the dining table with a desk/dining table unit and reused our chairs.

We feel both of these changes have increased the value of the RV for a perspective buyer.

Our sofa sleeper is very comfortable to sit on and sleep on, so it stays.

Next is to upgrade the flooring to pergo type.

rheadabovewater · RV-Dreams Family Member

One thing I'd really like to change is the way they have the entertainment center configured in the living room area. It takes up an entire slide, and I consider it a real waste of space. For one thing, the wiring isn't hooked up right - I haven't been able to figure out what's wrong, but the speakers don't work and the holes for the wires to/from the TV are in the wrong place. Go figure.

I'd love to tear it out and re-do the whole thing, but unfortunately I'm not handy that way. I don't know anyone who could do it for me either. Believe it or not, in my area (30 miles south of San Francisco) there is no one who works on RVs. I've checked for a year, and there really isn't anyone. So I'm kinda stuck.

I've even thought about having someone from a furniture store or something come out and take a look at it, but I live in a rather remote area and it's a bit of a hike for anyone to get out to me. People just don't seem to want to do that these days.

-- Edited by rheadabovewater on Wednesday 25th of August 2010 05:12:38 PM

Delaine and Lindy · RV-Dreams Family Member

If you happen to have a Best Buy near you, that would be you best chance in getting the entertainment center up and going. A few years back I had to get a Geek from Best Buy to get the system working correctly. Most every RV 5th wheel type we have owned had a issue with the wiring for the receiver. Geek said the RV manufactors are behind several years. The biggest thing he did was to remove the spliter and use the RCA type cables to get the surround sound working. We have a 40" Samsung LED in the living area and a 19"
LDC in the bedroom area both are HD system and works great. Good Luck with your choices. GBY...

rheadabovewater · RV-Dreams Family Member

Really? Best Buy? I will have to check that out - thanks!

Denise · RV-Dreams Family Member

We have removed all the RV furniture from our Fifth Wheel. We have pictures posted on our blog. Matter of fact the dining table and chairs we are now using are lighter than the RV table and chairs. We removed our sofa sleeper and replaced it with a residential style sofa. It too was lighter in weight. We are now in the process of removing the big bulky recliners that came in the fifth wheel too. We not only have lightened the load we now have more comfortable furniture.

We say GO FOR IT

nwtraveler · RV-Dreams Community Member

Our sofa bed easily came apart.
There were 4 screws holding the piece across the front,
a flat board covered with material, near the floor and 4
more screws , 2 on each side, holding the folding mechanism
to the frame. Then 2 people can easily get the pieces out the
door. I reassembled it and sold it on craigslist a week later.

We replaced it with a desk made from 2 wood file cabinets and
a pine board from Home Depot stained to match.

Kim