I'm waiting for camping season to be over so that everyone that has camp in them over the season now wants to get rid of them and get into something bigger because that always happens ...

Actually your best bet at getting a trade-in might be in late winter. Here in Ontario (Canada, not California) the RV shows are held in February and March - that's when a lot of smaller trailers get traded in for bigger ones. I contacted a dealer in January about a couple trailers they had advertised. Those TTs weren't quite what I was after, and the dealer let me know they had a show coming up and would contact me know if any TTs came it. They got back to me a few weeks later because they did take in a TT as a trade-in from that show, which is the trailer we ended up buying from them.

The trailer shows are okay for seeing some of the new TTs, but most of the dealers only had the huge massive you-call-that-camping type trailers. Better profit margins.

FWIW, the dealer we bought from also rents out TTs for a few years and then sells them. Prices are decent if you can accept that it was a rental. That deal removed a some of the "breakable luxury" items (like power lift and I forget what else), and then reinstalled them prior to resale.

Used 10' TTs, 2004 - 2008 were around $4000 - $7000 CND when I was shopping. We paid $4500 and I think I could sell it now for the same price 4 years later. depreciation is very steep in the first couple years but pretty much levels off after that - not like a automobile which goes towards $200 in scrap value over ~10 years. IMO.

Buying used from a dealer here is a joke ! Looking at 7-10 grand for a 2000 model - i found the private party sales are good - 1000-6we want to rent one for a weekend then see what we love or hate about the model we rent . For us in cali camping season really does not ever die down till like dec but then we have had 80 degrees at christmas - im thinking . People start thinking about the new years camping season in like feb , so im thinking the prime time to look for used is like nov- feb which is fine with me
Good idea on the used sale thing - im going to talk to some people i know

Like I said please keep the info coming everyone :-)

I so want this.

Or this.

Ive seen those on craigslist for like 2000 $

We had a 2006 Aliner folding camper and loved it. It did have AC but we rarely used it - mostly New England camping. I loved that it folded, setup was 30 seconds and no wet canvas, camped well into the very late fall. Minus was no bathroom and a lack of floor space.