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If you choose a 5th wheel bear in mind, tow capacity is not the limiting factor. It will be payload. You will have about 20% of the trailers gross weight on the truck. For example if the trailers gross is 12,000 lbs you will have about 2,200 lbs on the truck. You also should understand the 5th wheel hitch, passengers and anything else in the truck counts toward payload. So in this scenario you could end up close to 3,000lbs of payload.
Do Not pay any attention to empty weights. The trailer will never weigh that when empty. Also the same can be said for hitch weight. Both of these weights are weighed as the trailer leaves the factory completely empty and stripped...no gas bottles, batteries and cargo. You're best to completely ignore these numbers. The only one that counts is gross vehicle weight.
One other thing is be very careful with sales people. They will tell you anything in order to get a sale. Personally I like going to RV shows, but I would wait to purchase anything. There is a high risk of being sucked in and ending up with the wrong unit.
I would also start with something used for the first year so you haven't plopped down a ton of money only to find you should have gotten something else. We went through a couple trailers before finding just the right one for us.
Best of luck
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