E57 We sold our RV and... - a podcast by Paul Sebastian

You see we are now on season 2, this because we are now on RV #2. We decided to sell our rig and buy a newer one. The episodes numbers will continue the same sequence so this is episode 57, can you believe it??

We placed our ad on RV trader and cost $250. It was sold in 1 month. I've always heard how much RVs depreciate. When we sold this one we got back our purchase price plus the cost for all of the solar and the cost for the two ceiling vent fans etc. I think the big thing is stay on top of the problems as they arise with the ring then when you're ready to sell you don't have a list of things to fix.

Prior to selling it we got it detailed from National Detail Pros in Draper Utah, for almost $700. . They have contracts with local detailers and they sent a mobile guy to us here in New York. However there were a couple of issues with his service. He said he would be here for most of a day. It took him almost 2 days and he missed some areas. When I contacted the company they basically ignored my complaints. And not in a nice way. They also threatened to sue me for slander if I give any false reviews. Unreal !!!! So, I highly recommend you do not waste your money using this company.

We had it on the market for a month. We had a few offers and deposits but then it seemed like they got nervous and backed out. Then we got a solid offer and sealed the deal.

So now we are back to looking at newer rigs to buy. We found one at RCD RV Superstore in Sunbury, Ohio. We explained we wanted to see it and would be there in 2 days. They said it may be sold by then but if we put $1000 down they would hold it for us. So we did and drove over 8hrs to see it.

Now, this was the 1st time I did a 8hr drive in one day in almost 20yrs. Yuck NOT for me but we know many folks and you may be one of them who love to drive long distances in a day.
We arrived there Met George. Got the keys and .... saw a wet spot on the passenger side floor. Not a small one either. Carpet was soaked with water, from a leak. Then we tried to level it but the jacks wouldn't go down. Trish was outside and said there was Hydraulic fluid pouring out. And the slides wouldn’t operate.
It's a real shame what dealers will try to sell. When we told them we didn't want to buy this rig he said but we're going to bring it in the shop tomorrow and fix everything.
Imagine if somebody didn't know anything about RVs and was super eager to buy that one they would have jumped on band wagon and bought it.
So we explained to George that we wanted our deposit back. We then went to look for other rigs in the area but didn't find any that matched what we're looking for. We headed back to New York and back to square one. We were trying to figure out exactly what we wanted and didn’t want in our next rig. It seems like every time we found a rig it got sold quickly.

So we figured what we would do is find a bunch of RVs for sale in one area. Which meant we may have to fly down in Florida and look at a bunch. we were going to do this because there's a lot more RVs for sale in Florida than in Orange county New York LOL. We then went back on RV trader.com we found an RV that was a little bit above our highest price that we could go. But the floor plan matched exactly what we wanted. What we wanted was a living room with a sofa and a dinette and over the cab bed a self enclosed bathroom and a bedroom that was Private with a door not an accordion door and had enough wardrobe storage for our clothes. We found a rig up in Massachusetts. I sent the gentleman an email asking what would be the lowest price you could go period and his low price matched our upper end price exactly.
We received our $1,000 deposit from the dealer in Ohio. And then we received confirmation from Bank of the West that are loan application was approved for the rig in Ohio.

So we sent a $100 deposit for the rig in Massachusetts site unseen. This is all very new for us we don't like buying expensive this way. But these are weird times aren't they?
2 days later we drove up to Massachusetts we looked at the rig instantly fell in love with it. We were told to fax over 15 pages of information that Bank of the West requires along with a note stating that we lost the deal on the other rig in Ohio.
Now of course we don't have a fax machine but my daughter and son-in-law do. so we gathered up the papers to fax to Bank of the West.
It always seems like things happen all at once and sometimes I find myself in the need of talking to a stress Management consultant so it's easy for me I just start talking to myself.
So I first figured out my priorities then addressed each one of them in order. Eventually I got to my daughter's I tried faxing the papers over the bank at the west. However after an hour and a half of trying more than 20 times. Trish texted me and said she's going to call Bank of the West. After a 45 mins on hold, she spoke to a woman he said oh you can just email those papers to us you know not to fax them.
WELL Bank of the West has the best rates around for us for an RV loan BUT they are nothing but a pain in the neck to deal with. When we bought our last rig almost three years ago I ended up emailing two of the top people and Bank of the West to complain about the service. And it seems like we're dealing with that all over again.
Finally we got everything to them and they said they would need to send an inspector over to look at the rig. Then they said they wont be doing that.

We then got a text message from the seller saying he really wanted the rig gone quickly. He said when he bought it everything was done in one day and he doesn't understand the delay. He expressed concern of selling it quickly otherwise he may lose out on the warmer rving weather and miss opportunities to sell it. I then called the seller and explained we have the loan. It's going to take a little bit of time to get everything done with the bank , but the RV is considered sold and we do not want to miss out on this rig. We knew we were going to put down $8,000 on the rig so I told the seller mail him a bank check for our $8000 deposit and if need be I would drive it the 3 hours to him to hand it to him. He said we can overnight the check to him. We did, but he didnt check his mail until the following day. You know, in today's world it seems that instant gratification is definitely a thing.

And meanwhile our rig was sold but was still sitting in the driveway because Bank of the West has not sent the release of lean to us. It took them 2 weeks for us to recieve it. Then the bank over nigted paperwork to us and the seller. We had ours back in the mail within 2 hrs. It took the seller 3 days to get his into the mail. I thought he was in a rush? Hmmm.

But we figured we would deal with his headaches as opposed to flying to Florida (where there's a high count of corona cases), traveling all over the state and renting a car looking at rigs and then having to fly back down when a loan was approved to drive our rig back home from Florida. So we just deal with his headaches.

A few days later our rig pulled out of the driveway for the last time. we sold it to a great couple from Pennsylvania and we wish them lots of happiness with it and safe travels. When they got home, we sent them a text to look in the storage bin - where we had left them a bottle of wine and a card wishing them joy.

It was very bittersweet watching it pull away.. There's been a lot of memories in that RV and headaches too, but a lot of memories!!!! And we're looking forward to making new memories in our next rig. And a big part of our trips is ... the planning. Setting a destination and then a route.

The Bank of the West sent the sellers a bank check (which took them another 2 days to get deposited in their bank). And the wont release the rig until the bank check clears.
So, according to their website Bank of the West says they close on RV loans in 7 to 10 days it's now almost 3 weeks.

So the delays with the seller and Bank of the West finally ended We picked up the New To Us rig. It's a Thor 2017 ACE 29.4.
So until next time ....

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