FootballFan
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Congrats!!!!!!
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Very good for you on the sale Frank and sounds like a knowledgeable buyer is waiting to enjoy a well cared for vessel. Hope that this doesn't mean the end of your participation here as you've been a fantastic source of knowledge without the drama that can accompany opinions from time to time.
Congrats Frank!SOLD!.........
We closed the sale of our 450DA last week to a local couple. We decided to sell her ourselves rather than to use a local broker, so I ran ads on Boat trader, Facebook (a waste for this type of boat in this price range) and on CSR. We had no problems getting the phone to ring, in fact, properly following up on leads turned into nearly a full time job. Going the FSBO route was trying but worth doing financially and because I got to meet a number of very nice folks, who for one reason or another couldn't pull the trigger.
The new owner is a fascinating family who have become good friends thru this process. He is an Italian who has become a US citizen who married a Southern girl and moved to Panama City Beach. He is a seasoned maritime captain in Venice, Italy. Until Covid essentially shut down their entire Country, The buyer runs 75 ft + tour boats (300+ passengers) in Venice during their tourist season. It was a real pleasure working with a buyer with his level of understanding boats and their systems.
The boat was surveyed buy a hull and a mechanical surveyor simultaneously. The hull surveyor found no moisture in the hull or deck and his only negative finding was a "bad GFI"......we later found that the test button was just stuck behind the cover plate. The mechanical surveyor took oil samples, transmission fluid samples and coolant samples, all of which the Cat labs found clean and "no problems with this sample; continue sampling at normal interval." After a 2 hour sea trial the surveyor found all temperature readings and engine performance to be normal and told the buyer "If you want a 45 ft Sea Ray, buy this one; it is mechanically perfect."
Thank all of you who participated in this thread. It is interesting that a lot of the prospects we talked to were following the discussions here. When I get caught up a bit, I'll post a thread on the For Sale By Owner process
Frank
That is part of the problem Tommy..........I don't see anything on the market that I'm interested in!