This prices vary and escalade quickly when you start adding all the goodies.
For the 5 grand your speaking of thats bare bones trailering unless you find a great deal on a used one. I prefer an all aluminum trailer light weight, no worries on rust. ATC (aluminum trailer.com) IMO are the best but there not cheap. If your looking at a used steel trailer the first thing I would look for is rust or pitting around the wheel wells. Once that starts it will continue to eat away at your side panels. Its called electro something? Make sure the trailer has the higher rated axles. Just because it has 2 axles doesnt mean it can haul the load. Also look under the trailer at the cross bars where the floor is screwed to if the floor is pulling away from the cross bars, forget it. At the same time check to see if cross bars are two ft centers or 16. 16" center make a huge difference on the trailer "twisting" when driving winding roads. Haulmark used to make 24" centers but that may have changed.
My reasons are for midwest winters, after several steel trailers my last two purchases have been aluminum both ATC. But out of the other steel ones I'd have to say Rance makes a pretty good trailer over the other ones I had.
(Pace, Vintage, Timberwolf) Im not a Haulmark fan I see too many of them for sale around here and there has to be a reason why.
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