Skip Gundlach wrote:

Hi, Y'all,

I'm in the process of setting up my next boat search trip, and the
Chesapeake is a fertile ground for the types I've found which might work
for us.

Unfortunately for me, I'm not familiar with the area as pertains to boat
buying and brokers. I've got about 40 boats scattered between Baltimore
and Northern Virginia. Surprisingly to me, there's very little overlap
on brokers (not many instances of a broker having more than one of my
selection), even though my boats are found only in the usual
concentration of areas (Rock Hall, Annapolis, Deltaville, that sort of
thing).

I'm hopeful of doing what I've done in other areas, which is to work
with as few, and perhaps only one, if it's appropriate, brokers as
possible, in order to maximize the efficiency for the broker and the
sales effort and my routing.

Has anyone here done the same sort of thing (targeted boats all over the
Chesapeake area and gone looking for them in a continuous trip)? If so,
how did you do it?? One broker? Have to visit each broker for every
boat? One broker per 'town'? Something else?

Since I'm hopeful of leaving sometime this week, and probably will be
gone for up to 10 days, I'm hopeful I'll hear back on the subject
quickly :{)) [handlebars and full beard, tm]


Sorry, but MLS hasn't really taken off on the Bay, from our experience.
*Our* current owner wasn't listed except by the one broker. And there
are a BUNCH of boats that weren't listed even in the local mags that
were really close matches. We stumbled upon them only by walking the
docks and yards. And there are a bunch of brokers around. Seems they can
make a decent living without sharing the commissions.

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