Newbie here!!

One other major consideration is the difference in function between an R Pod and a class c.

with the R Pod,you park it in a nice camp site, enjoy the comforts, leave it there and drive to  your daily tourist destination in your van.  Return to your camp and the R Pod is already set up and waiting to be enjoyed. with the class c, you have to break camp, pack everything up and then drive it to your daily tourist destination, find a place to park it and then come back to the campsite and set it up again. Same thing next day.

there is a LOT of daily setting up and tearing down, packing and unpacking with any class C if you leave the campground once you are set up.  the R Pod is simple, set up once and leave as often as you wish.

just my 2cents

Vann

Kimmie, you have a lot of options, with a trailer that you don't have with a class C both in places you can visit and the kind of campgrounds where there is space.  A small class C will fit in many camp grounds where small trailers fit, but you're stuck there unless you towed a car and if that's the case, you lose the small camping vehicle advantage and eliminate some campgrounds.  Some of the roads to campgrounds, even though the spaces are big, are hard to navigate with a class C, while you may find an articulated vehicle, e.g. towing a trailer where the vehicle bends in the middle allows you to make tighter turns and allows you to traverse rougher roads.  "At  the end of the day" you need to analyze what kind of places where you're going to camp and whether you need the flexibility of a trailer.  If it's going to be mostly in commercial campgrounds, then you may as well get a class C and a little car to tow behind.  If it's going to be remote Forrest Service campgrounds, then a small trailer may fit the bill a little better.  

There are plenty of good deals out there, especially if you can travel a little to look at them.  But if you buy something with a motor and drive train, you'd be a lot better off finding one close enough where you can have a mechanic check out the drive train and make sure it's sound.