Newbie here, hello from Texas!

I'm in Houston, and I found it hard to find a trailer, for a decent price, that was within 500 miles of here. If it's much further away, the travel expenses add another couple thousand to the purchase price.Things seem to be higher priced in the south too.?? I found lots of cool trailers way up north for just a few hundred, but then they were always, like, 800 miles away or more. I finally found a Silver Streak in Oklahoma City for $4000 and even though that was a bit high, travel was cheap and it was a nice well built trailer. The interior was shot but that's what I wanted because I wanted to completely redo one. A number of really cool trailers got bought before I could get a call through. One guy made a deal with me but got a better offer, he said, and wanted me to bid against it. I told him to sell it.
Just a side note, by the 70's the interior materials were getting pretty cheap, and unless it's really in good shape you'll have to replace all of the wood, as none of that stuff is still available, in most cases.(I'm talking about the plywood with the picture of wood on it) OR paint maybe? Not my favorite approach.
Keep looking, something will come along, good luck.
Wayne