Should You Rent or Buy An RV? 7 Key Considerations

Above, taking a break after crossing Wolf Creek Pass in Colorado. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The media and politician hysteria over the Delta variant of the coronavirus is hardly putting a dent in people's desire to travel. They're going anyway.

How to travel is the big question.

Many are seeing travel in recreational vehicles to be the safest way to travel as they aren't exposed to people as they would be on planes (along with being forced to wearing masks during entire flights) and ships. 

Should they rent or buy an RV?

Yahoo Lifestyle has posed this question in an article.

They begin it with:

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, families increasingly turned to the outdoors (and the open road) for recreation and family vacations. As a result, recreational vehicles (RVs) gained a surge of popularity. In fact, 56 million Americans planned to take an RV trip this summer. And according to recent data from the RV Industry Association, this boom in RV travel isn't slowing down any time soon. But when is a rental the best value? Or is purchasing a recreational vehicle a better investment?

The biggest impact on whether you rent or buy an RV is how you plan to use it. "What are your goals?" says Paige Bouma, EVP of RV Trader. "Is it a lifestyle? Or do you just want to go on vacation and see what it's like?" Bouma has more than 15 years of RV experience, and she says answering this question is one of the best ways to approach RVing, whether that's deciding where to go, which type of RV to choose, or whether to rent or buy.

To read the full article, go here.