Experiences with pepple responding your selling ad
Trying to sell my Class C and I am running into some weird people. Have you had this experience?
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I tried CL and had one very curious candidate who then claimed he'd fallen ill and couldn't come look at the coach. Others, sure: Would I finance it? Could I park it at their Lake Property? So, I rented a slot on the Resale (aka Lemon) Lot at the Naval Station. Handful of inquiries, a few wasted 25-mile round trips. Took one woman around the base on a test drive and actually talked her out of buying it. Could tell her plan wasn't going to work.
Then, Small World kicked in: A man came by late one afternoon. He was from Texas visiting his daughter on base in Florida. His coach was totaled in Hurricane Katrina and he'd been watching for another one. We talked awhile and learned his nephew flew on AWACS with my SIL in Alaska. Came back next day with asking price in cash. We drove to Motor Vehicle and closed the transaction. More on that in a minute... Then later that year, I sat at a birthday party in Anchorage with that nephew AND the retired USAF people we had bought that same coach from, eight years before, in Tampa FL...
About the DMV: On any private deal, go, no GO, no ***GO*** to Motor Vehicle in person, with the other person, with the cash (or after first going to the Bank if it wasn't Cash) and watch the whole transaction go through. I sold a car of that Lot, pulled the Plate, Scraped the Base Parking, took the Cash, and Signed the Title. Notice arrived in the mail saying "My Car" had been towed abandoned at an apartment complex. So keeping the tag wasn't enough. This kid had a tag from another car and just drove that way till this ship deployed. And in FL, the form you can mail in, saying I Sold It, has small print saying "not effective till buyer registers."
By the way, a BOAT is worse. The Numbers stay with the boat. Looks just the same as Theirs as it did when it was Yours. Maritime rules are different, and you don't want an accident. What's probably worse is it sinks and creates an oil spill. State will trace Numbers to Registered Owner, that's You, and the Beginning of Sorrows.
Then, Small World kicked in: A man came by late one afternoon. He was from Texas visiting his daughter on base in Florida. His coach was totaled in Hurricane Katrina and he'd been watching for another one. We talked awhile and learned his nephew flew on AWACS with my SIL in Alaska. Came back next day with asking price in cash. We drove to Motor Vehicle and closed the transaction. More on that in a minute... Then later that year, I sat at a birthday party in Anchorage with that nephew AND the retired USAF people we had bought that same coach from, eight years before, in Tampa FL...
About the DMV: On any private deal, go, no GO, no ***GO*** to Motor Vehicle in person, with the other person, with the cash (or after first going to the Bank if it wasn't Cash) and watch the whole transaction go through. I sold a car of that Lot, pulled the Plate, Scraped the Base Parking, took the Cash, and Signed the Title. Notice arrived in the mail saying "My Car" had been towed abandoned at an apartment complex. So keeping the tag wasn't enough. This kid had a tag from another car and just drove that way till this ship deployed. And in FL, the form you can mail in, saying I Sold It, has small print saying "not effective till buyer registers."
By the way, a BOAT is worse. The Numbers stay with the boat. Looks just the same as Theirs as it did when it was Yours. Maritime rules are different, and you don't want an accident. What's probably worse is it sinks and creates an oil spill. State will trace Numbers to Registered Owner, that's You, and the Beginning of Sorrows.
