Potentially bad situation
I'm in a bit of a bind here in southeast Texas. I'm going to Elgin, near Austin in less than two weeks, maybe a lot sooner if I have a solution. I have a hybrid travel trailer, the worst mistake I...
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rbpru wrote:
Based on what you say I would not be in any hurry to get into any new deal. If your hybrid did not leak would you still trade it?
Chasing leaks and drying out wet spots can certainly be very annoying but is it any more annoying than taking on more debt?
That is exactly the thing I'm trying to avoid, going into debt... I've got a friend coming over to see if there's anything he can do with that foldout door. The problem is, I'm having to clean and reseal the entire rear edge of the roof on the trailer for the second time in three weeks. My knees hurt badly from scrapping for the last 3+ hours, and I'm not even finished. I already spent about 3 hours getting the major stuff off, but now, I'm getting deep under the dumb railing trim that just holds water when it rains.
Spending money on the travel trailer is never an investment for the aforementioned reasons, and neither is spending money on a house. You've got house problems that are on a magnified scale, financially speaking, and you are subject to asset inflation in booms, where the tax rate can go up as the cost of housing goes up, but hardly comes down and you have to fight the city or the county to get your taxes reassessed to reflect post-boom values.
I'm hoping to avoid the situation of having to get another trailer for a while longer if we can just get the foldout door to STOP LEAKING! It's looking bad...
