THE BEST travel trailer RV under 20FT? 2024 Forest River Flagstaff E-Pro E15FBS 

Myles said he might buy one for himself. Maybe he could buy yours.

Thanx for the warning

We bought a Rockwood Roo 233 made by Forest River. It was the biggest piece of junk that we’ve ever spent money on. Every time we pulled it there would be screws laying in the floor from falling out of different things. It leaked water into the inside of the walls and rotted the floor. I had it resealed by a local RV dealer. They told me it wasn’t sealed properly from the factory. They showed me where the outside compartment doors barely covered the holes in the side. I wouldn’t take another Forest River product if they gave it to me for free. Life is too short.

You absolutely can repair almost everything in/on a camper yourself - especially the plumbing, absolutely none of it is unavailable. The major hurdle that I've seen as a technician is people's refusal to maintain their investment - and unfortunately most people are too lazy to take the time to diagnose problems themselves. Truth is the majority of problems a camper has can be diagnosed with a multimeter and your mark 1 eyeballs. The other truth is that you are going to have these same problems with every entry level rv - whether its Forest River, Keystone, Palamino, Jayco, or whatever alternate branding the two main companies shelve them under. Puma branded models unfortunately have been exceptionally bad the last couple years, but I see the same issues with that 30-40k camper as I do in entry level 5th wheels at 80k. Combine that with people's innate desire to save 1,000 on the tag so they go to Camping World/Lazy Days/(insert whatever local large chain style dealer in your area) and they add terrible service from a company that pays their technicians in a flat rate model and sales staff on commission. You don't get quality anywhere when the only mission is to move every unit in/out as fast as humanly possible.

@@rotatingrecords you shouldn't have to repair things that were done improperly at the factory.

Glad I can help!

I used to build them at forest River. Quality has definitely gone down but still a legit company

Thanks for watching!

Ill have to go back and measure it, I forgot to 🫠

Don't know why the RV Industry insists on saying RV Queen when it's actually closer to a standard full-size bed, 54x75, a queen is 60x80, and a king is 76x80 Guess it sounds better/bigger!👍

Forest River has dozens of brands all built to different levels of quality. But in this video I feel I went pretty into depth on how this particular brand is packed with quality features.

@@mylesrv thanks for the reply

I understand anything newer that 2020 is a rush build job and more issues!

I don’t see why, honestly. I’ve never thought it to be a deal breaker

​@mylesrv I agree with you! This is such a cool little travel trailer.

In a 17ft not much space to put it otherwise.

2. But E-pro makes models that sleep more as well

What’s the price?!

I’m 6’1 without shoes on and I fit in every area of this RV. I don’t mind the shower not being that tall, I would only be in there for 3-5 minutes tops. Most RVs this size are going to actually have even shorter showers than this. And because the slide out is shallow, I believe both things can be accessed with the slides in. I didn’t check and confirm but again, that’s not a deal breaker for me either because I’ve never considered it too difficult to push a slide out for 5-10 seconds real quick if needed to get to a space inside the RV while traveling.

Bathroom and fridge work with slide in but the Murphy bed will not come down with slide in. You can use the couch though folded out like a bed if you had to. I saw this unit in person at a rv show in February. They wanted $27,990. I am 6’2” and had head room everywhere but yes the shower I had to lean over a tad but could work for me.

Prices crazy now.

I am!

It's more expensive than owning a house. Far more expensive if you can't be bothered to, or afford if your goal is to also work as little as possible, properly maintain them. Massively more expensive if you aren't interested/capable/handy enough to diagnose and make repairs yourself. They simply are not designed to be lived in full time, 100% for these entry level models. They are designed to be used a half a dozen weekend trips a year at the most for a few years. Consider this one thing - you have a maximum of r-9 in your walls and r-13 in your ceiling (completely ignoring all the holes for vents, ducts, windows and such), and essentially 0 insulation in the floor because it is an open space with no air control. Your furnace/heating system has 0 ability to control humidity and the rated uptime is approximately 50% per hour (12 hours a day) - this is a major problem if you live in any sort of climate where you'd need to use this to sustain your life.

I’ll have to check it out!

Sorry, but having not having slide outs is a deal breaker for me. Must have slide outs!

@@ThWind81 Well goody for you.

@ChefDuane OH, this is just DRIPPING with irony. Thank you.

@@ThWind81 How perceptive.

There’s plenty of other RU-vid creators that show RVs you can watch if you want a basic walkthrough without any depth. That’s not me though and it never will be.

What did I say wrong? You can use this comment section to help inform and educate me instead of just trying to put me down for going out in the 90°+ heat to film these things for yall.

@@mylesrv I pointed out a particularly incorrect and potentially dangerous one. Watch your video and listen to what you said, then take a few minutes of your day and go talk to your technician's and find out why it was wrong, and why it is potentially dangerous for you to be explaining it to a customer that way. You need to have that time with your technician's and more of it after this one particular item, it is actually important that you have this conversation with someone in front of you so that knowledge will actually sink in. That or you need to take the more active approach to developing at least a minimal baseline of technical knowledge so you aren't giving customer incorrect and sometimes dangerous information. RVIA I'm told has a fair presence down in Texas, the basic online course set from RVTI would be quite a good step even for a salesman to do the first level of the course. LCI has a pile of free coursework, most is probably more advanced but it's all good information for you to have. I'm sure it seems like a pain in the a, but I deal with this same exact stuff almost daily with a service writer/salesman at the shop I'm currently at that absolutely refuses to put any effort into obtaining any knowledge that's not on one of the pamphlets until it gets to a point that a customer has a problem he led them into and/or something he can't bs his way out of. Put in some work, don't be like him. Trying to point you in the right direction so you can head down a path that makes you more effective and especially not putting people's health at risk. If for some reason the technicians at your dealership don't know what the vent fan actually does - 1. Let the owner know because he/they absolutely NEED a higher level of training. 2. Come back here and I will give you further guidance to take back to your shop. I really do hope they can help you, and you can take some lessons from them beyond this item.

It doesn’t make a difference lol

It’s because it’s a higher quality camper than other competing brands at its size.

I don’t think it is. I’d be happy to buy it at this price

What exactly makes the quality 💩?

@@mylesrv You need to do your research on the quality of builds since 2018…being a shill for dollars 💵…use Google and search Forest River issues…to everyone else, hire an engineer to inspect anything you are considering in an RV.

@@mylesrv Since you deleted my last response, I will repeat…do your research of these units manufactured since 2017 until now…you will find your answer. Amazing how you claim no knowledge yet come off as “expert”

@@KenSiefert He asks for an answer and you give him... "Do your research" Hmm.....