You have been given a lot of good advice but I will add my 2 cents for what it is worth. Several years back the old obsolete longarm that I used died. No way to get parts as the machine was not made anymore. I quilt for myself and close friends and I do stay busy. I really agonized over my decision to replace it as I was 68 at the time. I crunched a few numbers and realized that I had to replace it because there was no way I could afford to have my quilts sent to a longarm quilter for hire. After much research I settled on an Innova mainly because of the high resale value (plus many other reasons). You can almost, if not totally get back what you paid for it if you need to sell. Innova is the most popular machine in the market right now.