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"Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... "mmc" wrote in message g.com... "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... "mmc" wrote in message g.com... "cavelamb" ""cavelamb\"@ X earthlink.net" wrote in message m... On 4/9/2010 2:56 AM, Hoges in WA wrote: Hi Anyone care to recommend a website listing most boats for sale. I've got Yachtworld and YBW (same thing??) going but are there any others? I look at some individual brokers' sites occasionally but it seems that whatever they have rolls up into Yachtworld anyway. Are there any that allow you to key in -bavaria -beneteau -hunter etc so you can eliminate a lot of what you don't want to see? Not critical, just curious thanks Hoges in WA www.sailingtexas.com Covers most of the US, and the near islands. -- Richard Lamb http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb/ Sailingtexas is about the most popular I've seen. The free sites like this have driven boattrader almost out of business here in FL. There used to be 4-5 seperate books for the state but now we're down to 1 and it's pretty thin. I avoid brokers like the plague so I just use Yachtworld for the pretty pictures. Why so anti-broker? I thought they were supposed to act ethically etc etc. hoges in WA I won't cast aspersions on their characters but I will say that I'd rather skip paying a brokers commision and I can find a surveyor wherever the boat happens to be. I'd rather tour a boat with the owner than someone else (like me) that knows nothing about it. With the cheapy TomTom in my truck, finding a boat in an unfamiliar town isn't much of a challenge anymore either. As for the documentation, it was recommended to me by a friend to hire a specialist" (whatever these people are called) to do mine for a mere $400. I downloaded and printed the form and did it myself. Saved my $400 and IIRC it took all of about 15 minutes to prepare. I sent the forms and check to the CG and they sent back the documentation so I must not have made too many mistakes! I will be a non-US resident buying to stay in US waters for about a year then exiting US waters. I don't want to fall foul of any obscure tax traps, or inadvertently fail to register some bit of what I want to achieve. I know that thousands of people do/have done this so really it's not like dealing in a former Soviet but I'd like to be compliant with local laws. I'm sure going to need someone on the payroll! Hoges in WA That's definitely a different situation than I'd be in. If I were doing what you are I'd use a broker too. Of the 5-6 I've dealt with, probably none were crooks, just in South Florida when a broker sees a guy drive up in an older vehicle (clean and well maintained but 5-10 years old), wearing flipflops and non-designer sunglasses rather than West Marine boutique crap, they write the guy off as either a looky loo or someone looking for a cheap boat. Car dealers do the same. When they turn up thier dainty little sunscreened noses I keep moving. Even though there is a listing database now like with real estate, it's been my experience that brokers push their own listings first (like in real estate, they get the entire commission) and their listings may or may not look anything like what you're after so push for what you want and not what they want to sell.. |
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"mmc" wrote in message g.com... "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... "mmc" wrote in message g.com... "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... "mmc" wrote in message g.com... "cavelamb" ""cavelamb\"@ X earthlink.net" wrote in message m... On 4/9/2010 2:56 AM, Hoges in WA wrote: Hi Anyone care to recommend a website listing most boats for sale. I've got Yachtworld and YBW (same thing??) going but are there any others? I look at some individual brokers' sites occasionally but it seems that whatever they have rolls up into Yachtworld anyway. Are there any that allow you to key in -bavaria -beneteau -hunter etc so you can eliminate a lot of what you don't want to see? Not critical, just curious thanks Hoges in WA www.sailingtexas.com Covers most of the US, and the near islands. -- Richard Lamb http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb/ Sailingtexas is about the most popular I've seen. The free sites like this have driven boattrader almost out of business here in FL. There used to be 4-5 seperate books for the state but now we're down to 1 and it's pretty thin. I avoid brokers like the plague so I just use Yachtworld for the pretty pictures. Why so anti-broker? I thought they were supposed to act ethically etc etc. hoges in WA I won't cast aspersions on their characters but I will say that I'd rather skip paying a brokers commision and I can find a surveyor wherever the boat happens to be. I'd rather tour a boat with the owner than someone else (like me) that knows nothing about it. With the cheapy TomTom in my truck, finding a boat in an unfamiliar town isn't much of a challenge anymore either. As for the documentation, it was recommended to me by a friend to hire a specialist" (whatever these people are called) to do mine for a mere $400. I downloaded and printed the form and did it myself. Saved my $400 and IIRC it took all of about 15 minutes to prepare. I sent the forms and check to the CG and they sent back the documentation so I must not have made too many mistakes! I will be a non-US resident buying to stay in US waters for about a year then exiting US waters. I don't want to fall foul of any obscure tax traps, or inadvertently fail to register some bit of what I want to achieve. I know that thousands of people do/have done this so really it's not like dealing in a former Soviet but I'd like to be compliant with local laws. I'm sure going to need someone on the payroll! Hoges in WA That's definitely a different situation than I'd be in. If I were doing what you are I'd use a broker too. Of the 5-6 I've dealt with, probably none were crooks, just in South Florida when a broker sees a guy drive up in an older vehicle (clean and well maintained but 5-10 years old), wearing flipflops and non-designer sunglasses rather than West Marine boutique crap, they write the guy off as either a looky loo or someone looking for a cheap boat. Car dealers do the same. When they turn up thier dainty little sunscreened noses I keep moving. Even though there is a listing database now like with real estate, it's been my experience that brokers push their own listings first (like in real estate, they get the entire commission) and their listings may or may not look anything like what you're after so push for what you want and not what they want to sell.. Yes, I'd be going there only to look at a specific boat that they had, not a general "So, what's available to stuff me with today?" We're going to get an apartment and look around for a few weeks or months. I sure hope you guys all learn to drive on the proper side of the road before I get there. Hoges in WA |
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:07:52 GMT, "Hoges in WA"
wrote: I sure hope you guys all learn to drive on the proper side of the road before I get there. Heh. Last month I was driving around on the wrong side of the road in Grenada. This month we're driving on the "right" side of the road in Martinique. The French got something else "right" beside wine, women and food. Internet service, not so much. |
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"Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... "mmc" wrote in message g.com... "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... "mmc" wrote in message g.com... "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... "mmc" wrote in message g.com... "cavelamb" ""cavelamb\"@ X earthlink.net" wrote in message m... On 4/9/2010 2:56 AM, Hoges in WA wrote: Hi Anyone care to recommend a website listing most boats for sale. I've got Yachtworld and YBW (same thing??) going but are there any others? I look at some individual brokers' sites occasionally but it seems that whatever they have rolls up into Yachtworld anyway. Are there any that allow you to key in -bavaria -beneteau -hunter etc so you can eliminate a lot of what you don't want to see? Not critical, just curious thanks Hoges in WA www.sailingtexas.com Covers most of the US, and the near islands. -- Richard Lamb http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb/ Sailingtexas is about the most popular I've seen. The free sites like this have driven boattrader almost out of business here in FL. There used to be 4-5 seperate books for the state but now we're down to 1 and it's pretty thin. I avoid brokers like the plague so I just use Yachtworld for the pretty pictures. Why so anti-broker? I thought they were supposed to act ethically etc etc. hoges in WA I won't cast aspersions on their characters but I will say that I'd rather skip paying a brokers commision and I can find a surveyor wherever the boat happens to be. I'd rather tour a boat with the owner than someone else (like me) that knows nothing about it. With the cheapy TomTom in my truck, finding a boat in an unfamiliar town isn't much of a challenge anymore either. As for the documentation, it was recommended to me by a friend to hire a specialist" (whatever these people are called) to do mine for a mere $400. I downloaded and printed the form and did it myself. Saved my $400 and IIRC it took all of about 15 minutes to prepare. I sent the forms and check to the CG and they sent back the documentation so I must not have made too many mistakes! I will be a non-US resident buying to stay in US waters for about a year then exiting US waters. I don't want to fall foul of any obscure tax traps, or inadvertently fail to register some bit of what I want to achieve. I know that thousands of people do/have done this so really it's not like dealing in a former Soviet but I'd like to be compliant with local laws. I'm sure going to need someone on the payroll! Hoges in WA That's definitely a different situation than I'd be in. If I were doing what you are I'd use a broker too. Of the 5-6 I've dealt with, probably none were crooks, just in South Florida when a broker sees a guy drive up in an older vehicle (clean and well maintained but 5-10 years old), wearing flipflops and non-designer sunglasses rather than West Marine boutique crap, they write the guy off as either a looky loo or someone looking for a cheap boat. Car dealers do the same. When they turn up thier dainty little sunscreened noses I keep moving. Even though there is a listing database now like with real estate, it's been my experience that brokers push their own listings first (like in real estate, they get the entire commission) and their listings may or may not look anything like what you're after so push for what you want and not what they want to sell.. Yes, I'd be going there only to look at a specific boat that they had, not a general "So, what's available to stuff me with today?" We're going to get an apartment and look around for a few weeks or months. I sure hope you guys all learn to drive on the proper side of the road before I get there. Hoges in WA Good luck. It's a good time to be buying over here. If I see you coming I'll get out of the way! |
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"mmc" wrote in message
g.com... "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... "mmc" wrote in message g.com... "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... "mmc" wrote in message g.com... "Hoges in WA" wrote in message ... "mmc" wrote in message g.com... "cavelamb" ""cavelamb\"@ X earthlink.net" wrote in message m... On 4/9/2010 2:56 AM, Hoges in WA wrote: Hi Anyone care to recommend a website listing most boats for sale. I've got Yachtworld and YBW (same thing??) going but are there any others? I look at some individual brokers' sites occasionally but it seems that whatever they have rolls up into Yachtworld anyway. Are there any that allow you to key in -bavaria -beneteau -hunter etc so you can eliminate a lot of what you don't want to see? Not critical, just curious thanks Hoges in WA www.sailingtexas.com Covers most of the US, and the near islands. -- Richard Lamb http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb/ Sailingtexas is about the most popular I've seen. The free sites like this have driven boattrader almost out of business here in FL. There used to be 4-5 seperate books for the state but now we're down to 1 and it's pretty thin. I avoid brokers like the plague so I just use Yachtworld for the pretty pictures. Why so anti-broker? I thought they were supposed to act ethically etc etc. hoges in WA I won't cast aspersions on their characters but I will say that I'd rather skip paying a brokers commision and I can find a surveyor wherever the boat happens to be. I'd rather tour a boat with the owner than someone else (like me) that knows nothing about it. With the cheapy TomTom in my truck, finding a boat in an unfamiliar town isn't much of a challenge anymore either. As for the documentation, it was recommended to me by a friend to hire a specialist" (whatever these people are called) to do mine for a mere $400. I downloaded and printed the form and did it myself. Saved my $400 and IIRC it took all of about 15 minutes to prepare. I sent the forms and check to the CG and they sent back the documentation so I must not have made too many mistakes! I will be a non-US resident buying to stay in US waters for about a year then exiting US waters. I don't want to fall foul of any obscure tax traps, or inadvertently fail to register some bit of what I want to achieve. I know that thousands of people do/have done this so really it's not like dealing in a former Soviet but I'd like to be compliant with local laws. I'm sure going to need someone on the payroll! Hoges in WA That's definitely a different situation than I'd be in. If I were doing what you are I'd use a broker too. Of the 5-6 I've dealt with, probably none were crooks, just in South Florida when a broker sees a guy drive up in an older vehicle (clean and well maintained but 5-10 years old), wearing flipflops and non-designer sunglasses rather than West Marine boutique crap, they write the guy off as either a looky loo or someone looking for a cheap boat. Car dealers do the same. When they turn up thier dainty little sunscreened noses I keep moving. Even though there is a listing database now like with real estate, it's been my experience that brokers push their own listings first (like in real estate, they get the entire commission) and their listings may or may not look anything like what you're after so push for what you want and not what they want to sell.. Yes, I'd be going there only to look at a specific boat that they had, not a general "So, what's available to stuff me with today?" We're going to get an apartment and look around for a few weeks or months. I sure hope you guys all learn to drive on the proper side of the road before I get there. Hoges in WA Good luck. It's a good time to be buying over here. If I see you coming I'll get out of the way! Same here. :-) -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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Another spot to look at is the classifieds on Latitude 38. Gordon |
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