If the boat won't start or run for sea trial, it
doesn't take a mechanical genius to assess its general operating condition.

on the other hand, if the boat is on shore, it is the buyer's responsibility to
pay for launching for a sea trial. If you are not interested enough in a boat
to launch it, you ain't interested.

btw, ***most*** squatheads who purposely intend to chisel on price use a
"survey" (paid for by them to expressly find vague, impossible to prove reasons
why the price *must* be lower.) Any broker worth his salt weeds those turds
out, or at least gets the turd to offer a much higher price than the owner
will accept, knowing the turd will chisel. Usually, turds end up paying above
what the owner will accept just because the broker is ****ed at the idgit.