Classic example when you do not want any offers

I sure don't miss buying/selling. If I could legally slap a parallel valve Lyco into this Arrow and put tip tanks on, I'd call it my forever airplane just out of the convenience of not having to deal with airplane buyer/seller BS. Houses, even with their insanely bloated pricing, are admittedly easier to trade by comparison.

I've never owned a boat, though I did buy a jet ski once. I have no idea if the kind of recalcitrant stupidity found in airplane valuations and pre-purchase inspection kabuki is also found in the boating market. Perhaps I'm being too harsh on the spam can market, I dunno. The jet ski was just as easy to buy as anything else on craiglist, so that's my only data point wrt marine toys.
 
hindsight2020 said:
I sure don't miss buying/selling. If I could legally slap a parallel valve Lyco into this Arrow and put tip tanks on, I'd call it my forever airplane just out of the convenience of not having to deal with airplane buyer/seller BS. Houses, even with their insanely bloated pricing, are admittedly easier to trade by comparison.
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Before I started trying to buy a plane I was seriously considering hiring a buyers broker to deal with all this stuff. Now that I'm close to buying I can safely say if this deal falls through or if there is a second purchase some day down the road, I am 100% hiring a broker.

Buying a plane is like the worst parts of buying a used car and a house combined. Honestly, going to the dentist is more enjoyable.
 
chartbundle said:
As I've been looking at planes I'm amazed how many of the photos are just crap. One listing had little tiny pictures, so I sent an email to the seller asking for photos, and got the same thing. The one I'm looking at now didn't have any photos from the front with the entire wings. I'm sure there were a few candidates I simply dismissed since they had one outside photo and another with half the panel. When I went to view the one I'm in pre-buy on now I took my good camera and spent close to an hour taking something like 150 photos. Maybe I'll do a post on what photos for a plane on sale should look like if I end up with it.

Of course, this isn't unique to planes, I saw the same problems when I was trying to buy a house from 600 miles away.
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I've tried offering to take some professional quality photos of planes when I've seen really bad ones (they looked like bad quality photos taken on a film camera and scanned in) in local listings. For whatever reasons, nobody has taken me up on the offer. They most frequently respond, "I already have photos". And some of these were on $100,000+ aircraft. I don't get it.

As for houses, I saw a listing recently where the owners hadn't even bothered to remove dirty dishes from the sink and the counters were covered with other dishes. Even if you didn't want to clean them, you'd think you could move them to another table/counter for the photo and then put them back.
 
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