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Buy your next home online.

Purchase sight unseen!
What could possibly go wrong?
 :D
In restless dreams I walked alone.
Narrow streets of cobblestone.


'93 U225
Build 4337
'14 CRV Toad

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Reply #1
Where would you like to start ? Crappie World perhaps
88 Grand Villa 36' ORED 3208 (throwaway)Cat.
 Build # 3150
Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

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Reply #2
Where would you like to start ? Crappie World perhaps

That's who sent me the ad.
In restless dreams I walked alone.
Narrow streets of cobblestone.


'93 U225
Build 4337
'14 CRV Toad

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Reply #3
Funny, while we were in Mesa Spirit RV Resort in Mesa, AR, an RVer got a brand new Newell delivered to his site.  Not sure if he knew how to drive it and it was the talk of the resort for a short while.  Beautiful rig, in the 1.5 million range!  Yikes!
Joe & Dottie Allen
Sold!  December 2023.      2000 U320; build # 5645
Our coach " Maxine"
Motorcade #  15922;  Escapee 150950; FMCA F330833; Boondockers Welcome;  Harvest Hosts;  Thousand Trails
'98 U320 from 2000-'06
USAF '62-'66

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." ―Epicurus

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Reply #4
Funny, while we were in Mesa Spirit RV Resort in Mesa, AR, an RVer got a brand new Newell delivered to his site.  Not sure if he knew how to drive it and it was the talk of the resort for a short while.  Beautiful rig, in the 1.5 million range!  Yikes!

At that price, I'd expect it to be delivered, and include the auto dump feature also.
But buying ANY rig, sight unseen?
In restless dreams I walked alone.
Narrow streets of cobblestone.


'93 U225
Build 4337
'14 CRV Toad

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Reply #5
Funny, while we were in Mesa Spirit RV Resort in Mesa, AR, an RVer got a brand new Newell delivered to his site.  Not sure if he knew how to drive it and it was the talk of the resort for a short while. 

A number of the higher end coaches are moved by hired drivers, not the owners.  Lyle Reed had one for his Foretravel before he got involved with the company.  Have seen a Realm moved and set up by a driver for an equestrian family that used it at horse shows instead of a hotel.
Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!  - John C. Bogle

2000 U320 36' non-slide / WildEBeest Rescue
2003 U320

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Reply #6
Most of the people buying new Newells are very involved in the building process from design to final walkthrough just as with building a custom home.  And 1.5 million is not quite enough to buy a Newell nowadays.  Closer to $2mm.
But yes many Newell owners (at least newer ones) have drivers deliver them to where their lots are.  Indio and Petoskey are 2 major areas.
Forest & Cindy Olivier
1987 log cabin
2011 Roadtrek C210P
no longer 1999 36' U320 build #5522
2013 Rzr 570 & 2018 Ranger XP1000
2006 Lexus GX470
2011 Tahoe LT 4x4
Previous 1998 45' 2 slide Newell, 1993 39' Newell

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I had a driver before Apple made the IPhone.. Now she sits in the jump seat and pecks endlessly.
Dub McBride 1996 270

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Reply #8
I had a driver before Apple made the IPhone.. Now she sits in the jump seat and pecks endlessly.

I feel your pain.
In restless dreams I walked alone.
Narrow streets of cobblestone.


'93 U225
Build 4337
'14 CRV Toad

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Reply #9
Youre going to see the sellers adjust to the market a lot more in the next few months. Some will make it, some not. 

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Reply #10
I have a close friend /  colleague with a Newell and stays very informed with the company. He says they start at 1.9 and very quickly go up from there. I must say from an engineering standpoint those are one hell of a machine. If I had all the money in the world I would most likely pick a Newell over any other brand for the sole reason of how it is built specifically for you from the floor plan to chassis.

Don't get me wrong I am realistic person (without all the money in the world) which is why I own and dearly love my Foretravel.
2002 U270 34' Build 5953
Cummings ISL400HP
3410 Floor Plan
Longview, TX

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Reply #11
Yep, exactly why we are anticipating owning a Foretravel as well. Currently live in Oklahoma and occasionally trapse up to Miami OK. for look see.
Future Foretravel Owners
2019 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk
Retired USAF, Retired DOD Civ's
FAA A&P, Indust. Eng., Acft Depot Lvl. Maint.
Larry and Becky Rountree

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Reply #12
At one time there used to be "mail order brides". Never knew if one was getting a good one or a bad. You just had to hope your luck was good.
Nitehawk,  Demolition Lady, & our NEW master, Zippy the speeding BB cat.
1989 Grand Villa 36' ORED
Oshkosh chassis, 8.2 DD V8
2006 Saturn Vue AWD

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Reply #13
Yup, I had a 2007 Newell and it was a marvelous machine but our 2004 U320 better fits our lifestyle.  We moved from our penthouse (the Newell) to our cottage (the U320) and are loving our cottage!
Oscar & Janet Valent
2023 Coach House 261XLQD
Former 2004 U320 3820 PBBS
Former 2007 Newell Coach #815
2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit

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Reply #14
People generally buy because of the superficial stuff anyway.  If it looks good online, then it must be nice. ( carvana vending machine).
  After catching a few RV shows on GAC I see that folks rarely ask about horsepower or size of water / waste tanks or chassis questions.    If it's pretty, and cheap their in.
Robert and Susan
 1995 36' 280 WTBI 8.3 3060r
 1200 watts on the roof, 720 Ah of lithium's
 Build # 4637. Motorcade # 17599
        FMCA  # 451505
        18  Wrangler JLUR

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Reply #15
Wish they made a 40... I  $%^&*( buy it...
Hans & Marjet
1995 U300 "Ben" (#4719)
3176B Cat,4060HD,Jake
SKP#139131
Motorcade#17579
2006 Honda Element (towed)