the "off-line" date is a close estimate, but Heartland can change it. I was told mine would be off-line of Nov 11 2008, I made it very clear to the dealer that I needed to pick it up ASAP, because I had arrange for that week of work. I live in CO, but saved around $25K by buying from RV Capital Wholesalers in Elkhart. I had arranged to do MY PDI on the afternoon of the 12th. I left CO on the 9th drove 2 days to Elkhart, As I am crossing the IL/IN state line the dealer calls and said my unit is delayed in paint and will be a couple days.
After spending 3 more days in the are I finally took delivery of the unit at 6:30 nov 14th. I only had about 30 minutes to do a PDI as I had to head back to CO that night to avoid a large storm coming in the north. I believe the full body paint units heartland preped to go to the louisville show took longer than proformance paint expected, so mine was push back several days, but I was one of the first people to see the full paint Landmarks.