The Details to Make the Sale Easy and Comfortable:

A typical Deal:

First we make the offer with a copy of a check for the deposit. (we use this copy to present the offer, but don’t use it for funds. ) Once the offer is accepted and before the survey you will wire  the deposit. This enables us to return you money right away if the boat t doesn’t work out .

We tentatively arrange a surveyor.

Example: Lou Stahlberg charges $13.00 per foot   42 foot boat =$ 546.00

Haul-out at South Texas Yacht Service $ 3.00 per foot 42 foot boat = $126.00

If it needs a pressure wash $3.00 per foot   42 foot boat = $126.00

Negotiate final deal

We do survey:  Start early in the morning then about 10:00 or 11:00 haul-out the boat , takes about an hour.

Put the boat in the water….. go sailing  normally you hire a captain ( I can help with that )

Sail for about an hour to put up sails, check the engine and generator underway.

Return to the Dock to check everything else out.

This takes a full day and by the end you will know whether you want the boat.

Normally there will things wrong, light bulbs, a bilge pump etc , but if it something big then depending on the price of the boat ( but If we got the last nickel, we got the last nickel there is no more ) we can renegotiate . Do expect on most brokerage boats that you should expect to do a bottom job, replace the batteries, polish the fuel and possibly replace the cutlass bearing . These are normal things of buying a used boat . DO KEEP IN MIND THAT IF WE ASK TO RENEGOTIATE, THE SELLER IS THEN FREED FROM THE CONTRACT AND CAN SELL TO SOMEONE ELSE .

Then we close.

To Make the Details of the Sale easy and comfortable:

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