Some advantages of a MH that we see are: ....
Well I might as well hold up the trailer end of the dialogue, as usual. ;D
1. Anything with a motor and drivetrain needs routine maintenance. With a trailer, you simply camp, unhitch the tow vehicle and drive it to the mechanic -- you have a place to live in the meantime . With a motorhome, your home must go to the mechanic too.
2. Tow vehicle/ trailer combinations bend in the middle. Motorhomes do not bend in the middle. Thus trailers fit in more backin spots than do motorhomes of comparable liiving space.
3. Lousy weather? Simply get a pull thru spot at the campground. Pull in. Nothing says you must unhitch so simply plug in to shore power and step into the trailer. I have a travel trailer. Last year at Ehrenburg, it was raining, blowing and cold. We pulled in, plugged in, and spent the next two nights without any further unhitching or connecting.
4. You can back a trailer -- easily after you have learned how. You cannot back a motorhome with the toad attached -- period. If you need to back, as in camping in a back in site, or getting out of a tight spot on the road, you must unhitch the toad and stick it someplace.
5, Class A motorhomes hate campsite trees and have been known to attack them without provocation. This is hard on trees and motorhomes and, therefore, motorhomers seem to gravitate to treeless sites. Travel trailers and 5ers of reasonable height can co-exist with campsite trees more easily and thus get to camp in woodsy sites. Even those 5ers with ridiculous overhang heights can at least bend in the middle and at least have a fighting chance to dodge the local tree branches.
6. Finally, with a motorhome and toad, you must buy and maintain two engines and drive trains. With a trailer you buy only one and maintain only one.