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Checking for flood damage on a unit like this ... takes a trained eye to find the damage. It's easy to have the aesthetics from flood damage cleaned up and painted over.
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Quite possibly true. On the other hand, I would suggest doing the same thing you are told to do if you are checking for flood damage in a car - that advice ought to work here, too. Based on the common practice in cars, it is quite plausible that the detailer would clean up the living spaces, the kitchen cabinets, and the exterior, but would pass by the places that a wide-eyed purchaser might not check. I'm thinking of a careful check inside the compartment behind the refrig, the compartment behind the water heater, inside the rear bumper compartment, inside the furnace compartment, the little compartment for the outside shower, the tube where the sewer hose is stored, and so on. In each case, you would be looking for silt or water marks where they would never be found on a new or nearly-new trailer. Look for dampness in the carpets and sound-proofing mats in hidden places, too, just as you are advised to do in a car.
Of course, no one is going to drive halfway across the country to do this ...
Bill