Water damaged travel trailer
I saw a 2008 Fleetwood Pioneer 18 travel trailer for sale for $2990 at a store around me so I called and the salesman told me that the trailer has slight water damage on the bathroom floor which came ...
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roblox84 wrote:gmw photos wrote:
To the OP, if you are just lukewarm on the idea, but are willing to take on a project that will likely be more involved than it looks, then go in and make him a serious offer. Lowball it at maybe $1800, hand him your business card and ask him to call if he decides he wants to move it in a heartbeat. Tell him it will be a cash deal, as is, no warranty.
You can bet when they took it on trade, they lowballed that seller, and probably have somewhere between literally nothing in it, or they guy actually paid them to take it off his hands.
You may or may not get it for cheap money, but again, if you are just lukewarm on it, then it doesn't hurt to try. Might be a fun project if you have a good place to work on it in spare time.
I am definitely just lukewarm on the idea. I obviously don't want to blow 5 grand on a travel trailer only for it to start leaking on me in a few years just like what happened to the people that traded this one in. If I can get this one for cheap I would have no problem ripping the inside apart to redo some stuff.
So would you say that $1800 would be the best offer and the lowest I should go? I was thinking about my previous offer of $1500 might be a little to cheap since the appliances and a/c might be worth more then that.
I have no way of knowing what thet true value of this trailer is to you personally. In actual dollar, it might be more than $1800, or it might be less. Much of that depends on how much labor a person wants to put into a project, vs hiring out some repairs, for instance. And if you are providing your own personal labor, then how much is your time worth to you ?
For me personally, to make a project like this worthwhile, I have to get it dirt cheap. Sometimes sellers just laugh at me and that's fine too, I am willing to walk away. Other times sellers are motivated by the fact they have someone standing there with cash in hand, and are willing to settle for less. And again, much of it comes back to whether the object in question is something you are hot for, or if, as you say, you are lukewarm. On the lukewarm side of it, that makes it easy to just shrug it off if you don't actually get it.
