Dumbest question when selling your boat

I've dealt with two brokers and got the good & bad. First broker 25 years ago was a pleasure to deal with and very detailed & professional. Two years ago when I sold my 270 I dealt with a lazy broker who basically wanted me to do all his work. I was fortunate that the guy who ended up buying the boat knew what he was looking at. The boat sold itself. The twenty or so people that the broker had me deal with were a PITA! I should have known better when I saw that my broker listed my boat on CL right next to the CL listing that I had posted previously. I mentioned that to him and he said that the boat would most likely sell local so no need to post it on any other website.
 
The dumbest voicemail I got was months after the sale. It was, "What does this alarm (blaring in the background) mean and should I shut the engine off if the temp is over 200 Degrees?"

On a side note.

Maybe A Dancer said:
I was surprised when he chose not to take this boat home by water (a 1.5 day trip across the ditch) but instead paid to have it hauled here, loaded for transport and hauled again when it arrived at his destination on Florida's east coast.
RWS
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This is all meant in the best possible tone:

The trip would be great for a retired guy or someone who has lots of vacation time. I'm currently negotiating on a 37 in Ft. Myers and gave careful thought to paying to have it transported vs bringing it home to Melbourne via the Okeechobee waterway. Here's why I wouldn't do it and pay the $4K to have it trailered:

1. I Own multiple businesses with 26 employees. There's something to deal with every day and you can't plan for it.
2. Would need a ride to the other side. One more person from my organization gone for a day minimum plus 350 miles on the car.
3. Murphy's Law...Everything works on the boat today but as we all know there's always something waiting to break on a boat. All I needed was an engine or trans problem and more days lost and another trip for someone to come get me. Plus the thought of being hostage at a boat repair place far from home is sickening.
4. By water the trip is roughly 200 miles. At 1 MPG fuel would cost approx $1200.
5. If I stop for the night at a marina there is transient dockage cost. Ideally staying on the hook would be the idea as long as the generator could run all night and keep the AC going. (see Murphy's Law above)

I could keep going but you guys get the idea.
 
This one just came thru via boat trader email. Legit? :)

Question, what is your best price, why are you selling it and I can't make it there with cash, due to the nature of my job, Also I'd like to know if you accept cashier check as payment once it clears your bank then i will ask my mover to come for the pickup and get back to e ASAP if that work for you ?
 
Golfman25 said:
This one just came thru via boat trader email. Legit? :)

Question, what is your best price, why are you selling it and I can't make it there with cash, due to the nature of my job, Also I'd like to know if you accept cashier check as payment once it clears your bank then i will ask my mover to come for the pickup and get back to e ASAP if that work for you ?
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That is just like the ones you get when selling something on Craigs List....total BS...

Bennett
 
Pirate Lady said:
Absolutely. Half a million. Would you sell a half million dollar house yourself, title searches, confirm buyer has the funds. Dam right I would have professionals involved. Much more so than on a 50k boat.
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A real estate lawyer will do all of those things for you for $1,000...or less? Oddly enough their services will be priced with no regard for the value of the house being purchased.
 
Hard to compete with Facebook Marketplace these days, Boat Trader is turning out to be a waste of money. My last two boats sold on Facebook in under a month.

I answered a few emails and the first person to see my boat, bought it. To think I saved myself over 10k...
 
Stee6043 said:
A real estate lawyer will do all of those things for you for $1,000...or less? Oddly enough their services will be priced with no regard for the value of the house being purchased.
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They will not in most areas as they must be licensed to sell real estate. They write contracts as lawyers.
 
MonacoMike said:
They will not in most areas as they must be licensed to sell real estate. They write contracts as lawyers.
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Not sure about other states but in Ma when you become a lawyer it automatically comes with a RE brokers license.
 
Not really a question, but I had a guy email me links to five or six other boats that were priced way below my 06 260DA after I declined his lowball offer. None of them came close to comparing to my boat. I had a little extra time, so I wrote back on each one of them how they weren't even close to what I was selling. There was one that was actually in good looking shape, according to the pictures, so I told him he should go buy that one. Never heard back from him.
The people that eventually bought it, for full asking price, had been looking for five years.
 
El Capitan said:
Ive had both, saltwater boats and freshwater boats. I would never ever purchase a used salt water boat. I dont care how well maintained, it corrodes. Freshwater boats are far more preserved with basically zero corrosion. Ive had a 1970 SR with original everything including the riser. Now I picked up a 1981 and there is zero corrosion on it.

Salt corrodes and theres nothing you can do to prevent it, delay it yes, but it will win that battle.
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The saltwater boats in the cold north hold up much better and I have known some who did very well purchasing a saltwater boat.

Franks boat was in the warm Florida saltwater and I wouldn’t hesitate for minute to buy a boat from him. Maintenance is the key. Unfortunately, and especially in southern vacation destinations, boats are poorly maintained, or outright neglected.
 
I'd stick to higher priced freshwater boats that will be kept in freshwater, and saltwater boats being kept in saltwater. It's nice to buy a freshwater boat and bring to saltwater but it's a saltwater boat the moment you launch it so you take a big depreciation hit.
 
I'd stick to higher priced freshwater boats that will be kept in freshwater, and saltwater boats being kept in saltwater. It's nice to buy a freshwater boat and bring to saltwater but it's a saltwater boat the moment you launch it so you take a big depreciation hit.
 
I've had good luck on Craigslist with many things as well, including boats and cars, you just have to sift through the robot crap.

I always like it when we get to the offer/negotiation part and people are scared to death to negotiate. It usually starts with "what will you take?" To which my response is always "make an offer" and then I stay quiet. That then usually turns into everything they think is wrong with the boat or car or whatever I'm selling. And then they're quiet, and I remain quiet. I love the silence, to me that's one of the arts of negotiation.
 
I don’t negotiate. I have my number wether I’m sellin or buyin. I don’t care. Best word in negotiating is “no”.
 
Stee6043 said:
A real estate lawyer will do all of those things for you for $1,000...or less? Oddly enough their services will be priced with no regard for the value of the house being purchased.
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Not where I live. The lawyers charge a certain percentage of the selling price. Sure you can negotiate, but the cheep lawyers are now few and far between.
 
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