Members helping members

[Gregory OConnor]

Mike, I always wanted to build a Bus Conversion but bought the
Wanderlodge because I was too busy to do the work. After looking at
all that goes into the Wanderlodge I realize the million mile
BusConversion would cost more than 100K, and hold no resale value
what so ever.
GregoryO'Connor
94PtRomolandCa

> Greg,
>
> Nice idea, but it doesn't seem to work at all in this market. When
I
> was selling Stagecoach 2 years ago, not only did I price it about
$5k
> under any comparable units on the market then, but I also offered
the
> exact kind of open-ended second $$ warranty that you suggest - no
> questions asked (specifying only that any work to be done by
someone I
> trust to know what he was doing - namely Ralph. I had worked the
deal
> with Ralph to pay him directly, up to the limit of the warranty
> amount.) No one else was offering such a deal, but I was confident
of
> what I had. It had *absolutely* no effect on the sale. The market
at
> that time seemed like it was full of folks that thought they were
> going to be able to get an excellent PT40 for $30K or less!! Ask
> Harvey about those people! I think a lot of lookers today are
looking
> for the excellent shape FC for $10K! Those buyers don't understand
> the product and confuse these things with trashed out 20 year old
> plastic palaces. Those excellent $10K buses don't exist. If you
want
> a re-builder project, start with a shell and have at it. You'll be
> busy and upside down in a re-builder forever. Stagecoach sold for
> what I expected, to a guy that owned several other older buses and
who
> understood the value of what he was getting.
>
> Mike Bulriss
> 1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
> San Antonio, TX
>
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Gregory OConnor"
> wrote:
> >
> > I guess I look at things different, being self employed and one
job
> > away from being 'layed-off'. A big sell point for me with
dropping
> > over 100G's on an old bus was the total cost is less than the
first
> > year depreciation on a new higher end fleetwood. I do believe
that
> > if a seller has confident claims about the condition of his
product,
> > he should offer a 'Second $5,000.00 warranty' (seller pays second
> > 5G's of a repair within the first year or buyback). There is no
> > mystery as to why rigs dont sell. Too many sellers view the
Market
> > value as an average of all the Asking Prices. Too many sellers
want
> > to recover cost of maintenance and upkeep and never deduct
utility
> > and use. (Upgrade is a Date sensitive term for upkeep)
> >
> > Members are also buyers
> >
> > Gregory O'Connor
> > 94PtRomolandCa
> >
> > --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Lawrence"
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Financed mine with our Credit Union...no problem.
> > > Bob Lawrence
> > > 84 PT36
> > > Tacoma, Wa
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, makes it hard to sell when the banks don't have a book
that
> > > goes back beyond 1990.
> > > > MH
> > > > From: Harvey Lawrence
> > > > > To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:57 AM
> > > > > Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Members helping members
> > >
> > > > > Ernie , do you know of any sources of financing an older
Blue
> > > > bird. A potential buyer of my 84 has that problem.
> > > > > Harvey Lawrence 84 pt 40
> > >
> >
>