What's it worth?

[Mike Gardner]

Theres alot of ways you can look at this but we would use depreciation as if we were taking it on trade. Lets guess that the trailer sold in 96 for 60K ( i assume its an aluminum featherlite and not a steel frame, they did build a few). If you use a 15% hit the first year and then slowly roll off value as the years go by then in my opinion its worth no more than $15,000.00 retail and $9000.00 wholesale. I dont care who built it, its 15 years old and things wear out as we all know. We do alot of trailer repair and most used trailers we see of this age need a complete overhaul of the running gear (brakes, springs, shackes, etc.) at minimun not to mention the wear on the LQ parts.

Also the market sucks for the large trailer market, trust me, i know first hand. With that said it is a buyers market and you should be able to name your price on older trailers of this size because the buyers just arent there.

Hope this helps!