I'm working on getting a hybrid!

[TheViking]

Ok does this mean doing "IT" 15 times in the shower or setting up the popup 15 times? :yikes: (adding in blushing icon here).
   
  Jacqui

Shoot! Had I known the doing "IT" 15 times in 5 weeks approach I would have done that instead. I mean, Dee's idea worked but the other sounds way more fun.

[Camping Coxes]

Ok does this mean doing "IT" 15 times in the shower or setting up the popup 15 times? :yikes: (adding in blushing icon here).
 
Jacqui

ONLY 15 times?  Shucks, that ain't nuthin'.

[Dee4j]

ONLY 15 times?  Shucks, that ain't nuthin'.

 :yikes:  :yikes:  :yikes:  :yikes:  :yikes:  :yikes:  :yikes:  :yikes:


That's all I have to say about that...oh and eh-eh eh-eh too! :J

[griffsdad]

TMI................please.

[Camping Coxes]

Final update on this particular trailer -- Paul drove by today to show his brother (a good sign).  Tonight I'm playing around ont he computer and checking RVTrader, and the ad is back up, but with a SOLD sign on it.  Good for her.  She's a newly single mom and needed to sell it.
 
So anyway, in looking, I found two other possibles that would work better as far as bed space.  Paul prefers a double axle for some reason, but neither of these have a double axle. Think he's making excuses?  Hmmm.  Maybe I can get him to take a drive to see one of them that's fairly close tomorrow.  He has a choice -- start painting the family room and living room, or look at a trailer.

[Dee4j]

Final update on this particular trailer -- Paul drove by today to show his brother (a good sign).  Tonight I'm playing around ont he computer and checking RVTrader, and the ad is back up, but with a SOLD sign on it.  Good for her.  She's a newly single mom and needed to sell it.
 
So anyway, in looking, I found two other possibles that would work better as far as bed space.  Paul prefers a double axle for some reason, but neither of these have a double axle. Think he's making excuses?  Hmmm.  Maybe I can get him to take a drive to see one of them that's fairly close tomorrow.  He has a choice -- start painting the family room and living room, or look at a trailer.

keep looking...I know you will find what you want..also tell Paul a hybrid will give him more time to drink beer, enjoy the fire and play apples to apples

[Camping Coxes]

We drove out to Simi Valley Saturday 1/7 to look at a hybrid, and while it looked good to me, Paul went to the "hidden" side, that happened to be up against a tree so you couldn't really see it too well, and it had a bunch of rivet holes where the first owner had installed a rack for his boat to hang on, and then these owners took it off.  Paul said it looked like someone had taken buckshot to the side of it.  Plus we both felt it was priced a little high.  Then he kept comparing it to the first trailer I wrote about here on this site, and I said it didnt' matter because that trailer was marked sold on the website I found it on.  Paul had driven by a few days before and it's still in her driveway.  So he was thinking about it again.
 
I'm going to let it go.  At this point in our financial lives, we're pretty stretched.  Once tuition is done for us, we might be able to afford it, but then the kids will be so much older that they won't want to go with us and we won't need all the room!  I can't win.  then again, Paul did say he was up for a pay raise in another month or two.....  
 
 

[Camping Coxes]

Wow, another update to my "never-ending story."

Paul and I went out to Pomona to a dealer just to look during a break in the rain.  Paul really liked what we saw and was talking is that the lowest price, do you handle your own financing, etc.  He wanted to stay around the 18-19 foot range, but I convinced him the 23 footer was better for us.  He's concerned about the weight is all.  
 
Soooooo.....he told me to list the pop-up for sale, and once we sell it, we'll roll the money into the new trailer!  As soon as everything dries out, we're popping up so I can take pics of everying and list it for sale!
 
You guys know anyone who is interested in buying a very clean, very nice, very well cared for pop-up?  :-()

[wavery]

Wow, another update to my "never-ending story."

Paul and I went out to Pomona to a dealer just to look during a break in the rain.  Paul really liked what we saw and was talking is that the lowest price, do you handle your own financing, etc.  He wanted to stay around the 18-19 foot range, but I convinced him the 23 footer was better for us.  He's concerned about the weight is all.  
 
Soooooo.....he told me to list the pop-up for sale, and once we sell it, we'll roll the money into the new trailer!  As soon as everything dries out, we're popping up so I can take pics of everying and list it for sale!
 
You guys know anyone who is interested in buying a very clean, very nice, very well cared for pop-up?  :-()

I think that someone here said it best when they said, "Wait 'till June to sell".

I don't suppose that it would hurt to list it now but you don't have to take less than it's worth, just to get a quick sale .

There seems to be a lot of trailers on the market right now. I think that people tend to try to sell them in the off season. Makes a lot of sense to wait 'till the beginning of next season. Seems like the demand would be higher and the supply less.

We bought ours in Sept (end of season) and got a heck of a good deal. There were a ton of them on the market then and the seller knew it.

[zamboni]

I had our Niagara listed here for quite a while, with little interest.  Ended up selling it quickly via Craigslist - to a fellow from Carmel (5 hours away, though I only posted it on the Sacramento Craigslist).  Sold it for $500 more than the only offer I got from this site...

[Camping Coxes]

I'm not making any move yet.  When I list the pop-up for sale I'll let the people at my church know (we do a family campout every year and they've all seen it) as well as list here and on RVTrader.
 
The rule is I have to sell the pop-up first, so I may have to go a summer without a trailer if the prices on the hybrid go up because of summer demand.  BUT we're planning to go to Tahoe this year with a friend of my DH's who has a house there, then on to other places via cheap hotels, so we won't really be using it all that much this summer anyway.  
 
I'm still going between the "do I really need it or do I just want it" argument.  I think of some of the bathrooms we've encountered at various CGs, and sai I need it.  Then I think of how much I love the pop-up's floor plan, how it's perfect for us (except the bathroom issue) and most of all, paid for, and then I get freaked out about it.  I still have one child in private school and tuition for Jr. High next year will really jump, so I'm still thinking long and hard about it.

[Dee4j]

I'm not making any move yet.  When I list the pop-up for sale I'll let the people at my church know (we do a family campout every year and they've all seen it) as well as list here and on RVTrader.
 
The rule is I have to sell the pop-up first, so I may have to go a summer without a trailer if the prices on the hybrid go up because of summer demand.  BUT we're planning to go to Tahoe this year with a friend of my DH's who has a house there, then on to other places via cheap hotels, so we won't really be using it all that much this summer anyway.  
 
I'm still going between the "do I really need it or do I just want it" argument.  I think of some of the bathrooms we've encountered at various CGs, and sai I need it.  Then I think of how much I love the pop-up's floor plan, how it's perfect for us (except the bathroom issue) and most of all, paid for, and then I get freaked out about it.  I still have one child in private school and tuition for Jr. High next year will really jump, so I'm still thinking long and hard about it.

if it helps any..your payments are tax deductable (2nd home) along as it's fully self contained.  and trust me I know the private school thing and now looking at sending Kevin to Mater Dei or Whittier Christian HS

[griffsmom]

We had our taxes done yesterday. :% Because I was laid off from the adoption agency in August, I was doing some grant writing at the end of last year and am now working as an editor for a legal publishing company--doing both jobs as an independent contractor (read: no taxes being taken out of my pay). The good news is that we've mostly escaped the worst of it for last year's taxes, but the bad news is now that I'm considered "self-employed," we're going to take it in the pants for this year, so we're looking for ways to increase our deductions. Back to the good news, we may be seriously looking at a hybrid as a tax break. Logically, I know I shouldn't be happy about that, but I can't help but smile when I think about possibly getting a hybrid... :cool:

[griffsdad]

We're getting a Harley!!!!!!!!

[griffsdad]

I Have Spoken!!!!!!!!!!