Ok, I'll be the first to state I did the "What the heck was I thinking" walk of shame. We started our RV life with a brand new pop-up, no problems what-so-ever with that, until it became a nightmare when we had triplets and realized how difficult it was to set-up and break-down while trying to wrangle three toddlers.
So we moved onto to what we thought was a good idea, a class C MH. To start off with, we didn't have the finances at the time and thought we could pay cash and get something decent. We spent $10k on a 15 year old MH. The person had "fixed" a hole in the roof with what I though was appropriate materials, but were not actually RV appropriate materials. Guess what, it leaked. And had been leaking for some time. Doh! Strike one. Got that fixed, thought we were ok.
Next, while on the maiden voyage along the West Coast during early September, an unexpected rain shower occurred. Guess what? We could take a shower under the AC! The seal had failed... Strike two.
On the return home from that first trip, we kept having to reset the refrigerator to keep it cool when on the road. When hooked up we had no problems. We stopped and got some deliciously fantastic cinnamon rolls with loads of cream cheese frosting. Yum! Then we hit a heat wave part of the way home and didn't realize how warm the refer got. Yep, you guessed it! Food poisoning! Fortunately, we were home by the time the full effects kicked in. Turned out the circuit board that controlled the propane valve had been recalled and never replaced. STRIKE THREE!
Got it home, got EVERYTHING fixed and repaired and sold it for what we bought it for. We figure the cost to repair everything was probably about the same that we would have paid for flight, hotel, and car rental for the two week trip. So at least we could tell ourselves that we broke even. Chalk it up to one BIG learning experience. We have since moved on to bigger and much better things.