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Post by handkey on Feb 14, 2017 5:23:32 GMT -8
I looked at a 61 ish Forester 16' trailer yesterday . Bad bad "rehab" " doesn't leak". The ad said. No ceiling, hacked out from the inside. Spray foam oozing from All Seams. I gently told the guy why you don't "restore" this way. Then things get interesting. It's not his trailer. He said he gets 20-30 travel trailers/ RV's a year . His company moves Mobil homes. Some times the land is going to be developed and he is tasked with clearing all abandoned trailers off the property. This includes Mobil home parks and old family resorts. HE is PAID to haul these off. .....he is paid to take the old canned hams, along with 80,s fifth wheels, class c's etc. I gave him a card and want to get good with him before he throws them on Craigslist for $300-$500. Most sell in a day, he told me. He has another Forester that he's pulling off a resort this week and wants $300 for it.
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Post by nccamper on Feb 14, 2017 5:50:39 GMT -8
$300? What year?
It may be worth it just for the parts.
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Post by handkey on Feb 14, 2017 6:10:33 GMT -8
He said it was identical to the 61-2. We'll see! agree . $300 is hard to turn down . Said this one was moldy., that's why it not $500. I told him that mold did not bother me as long as it is original: i.e. with all its parts. Either way it will get stripped down to the frame and rebuilt or parted out! That said, I'd like it to be sturdy enough to make it the 75 miles home!
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Post by handkey on Feb 14, 2017 6:29:45 GMT -8
Heres the ad for one I passed on. IMG_7041 by dhandkey, on Flickr I don't really need trailer #6 but my plan was to combine this one with my 63 . This one has all its windows, mine is missing the front and side window but has a restorable intact interior. When I got inside this 61-2 I realized the interiors are incompatible. The ceiling slope between the two is slightly different and the drop floor is a little deeper on the 63. The one for sale was missing the ice box, and heater. it had a gym locker where the heater was supposed to be! every cabinet still there had been abused. The gaucho frame and access door was gone.
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Post by nccamper on Feb 14, 2017 6:39:12 GMT -8
I like it. I wish it was closer. Do you have a link? I couldn't find it on CL.
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Post by handkey on Feb 14, 2017 7:16:36 GMT -8
I like it. I wish it was closer. Do you have a link? I couldn't find it on CL. It's gone. I screen grabbed the ad sunday night, and looked at it yesterday at noon. I was guy number 2 and there were two more people behind me that I know of. Im sure its sold. I wish I would have took interior pics. It was just crap. I practically hyper ventilate and get tunnel vision when I'm looking at these old trailers. odd thing about this trailer is the bottom was very solid. The wheel wells were intact and the fiber board insulation was all there. Im guessing it sat on a cement pad at the resort. Too bad the roof wasn't covered. He told me he used to get rid of these old trailers at the dump but they wanted so much per pound so he thought he would try and sell them for a few hundred each and it has been a great success for him! ARGH!!!!!!!
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Post by mrmarty51 on Feb 14, 2017 8:10:29 GMT -8
You might have struck into a gold mine there handkey.
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Post by vintagebruce on Feb 14, 2017 8:21:50 GMT -8
There are still dead resorts out there, and it appears the person you mention is well situated among some. I believe if you have the professional trailer moving equipment the Northeastern States have pockets of recreational properties along rivers and among groups of lakes where vintage camper picking could still be reasonably profitable for the owner of the equipment.
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Post by handkey on Feb 14, 2017 8:25:54 GMT -8
If he produces this next old forester this week and he calls me, I am golden. I need to give him a reason to call me first. It can't be because I'm wetting my pants with excitement! my dog does that, without pants of course and it get him nowhere! I just proposed to him ( not marry him, not going there just yet!) that I meet him where the trailer sits. He mentioned the tires very too rotted on this old forester so I texted told him I've got tires on rims that match and magnetic tail lights. could deal the deal right there and save him some time and effort... My fingers are crossed.
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Post by handkey on Feb 14, 2017 8:45:10 GMT -8
There are still dead resorts out there, and it appears the person you mention is well situated among some. I believe if you have the professional trailer moving equipment the Northeastern States have pockets of recreational properties along rivers and among groups of lakes where vintage camper picking could still be reasonably profitable for the owner of the equipment. Yes! I'm trying to be this guys friendly parasite , just told him I'm willing to go onsite and put tires on, magnet tail lights, etc if we make a deal on the spot. would save him some time , labor, expense. Now I'm looking at resorts for sale around me. found five within 75 miles . It would be a long shot, but simply going to these places, especially ones selling for re-development and asking about old trailers could be worthwhile. I know some of these resorts have trailer graveyards from past tenants that abandoned there seasonal sites or upgraded and the resort owners let them store the old trailer on site. Its sad to see the mom and pop resorts go belly up, but when they are sitting on land worth $1-2 million plus, the math doesn't add up as a seasonal trailer resort.
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Post by handkey on Feb 14, 2017 9:06:54 GMT -8
Ok Im in! at least on this next Forester. The guy that bought yesterdays Forester also wanted it. The trailer mover texted me back and gave me first dibs. He is still hauling it from its resort location south of me to 75 miles north of me! He did not bite on my idea of dealing on location and helping with tires etc. He parks these on his own land in plain sight off the hwy so it gives me some comfort that they are not actually stolen.... plus his story is too elaborate to make up! Bad news, the price went from $300 to $400 , still cheap, but I'm sure its because he is being fawned over by a couple of trailer zealots! I still need to think of a good reason for him to call me first.
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Post by vintagebruce on Feb 14, 2017 20:25:40 GMT -8
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Post by nccamper on Feb 15, 2017 8:08:28 GMT -8
A fun site. Thanks for sharing it.
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Post by mrmarty51 on Feb 15, 2017 8:35:08 GMT -8
A fun site. Thanks for sharing it. Yes it is. I even found a couple of them that if I sold out My propitty here I could jump right in on them. I think it`d be kind of fun to own a camp ground. One was in Idaho, Over by salmon, sort of. I think that one would be ideal.
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Post by Ten on Feb 15, 2017 9:28:38 GMT -8
A fun site. Thanks for sharing it. Yes it is. I even found a couple of them that if I sold out My propitty here I could jump right in on them. I think it`d be kind of fun to own a camp ground. One was in Idaho, Over by salmon, sort of. I think that one would be ideal. One might think. Back when my Dad was getting near the end of his teaching and parenting career, he had bought a camper and a fishing boat. He was looking forward to a little more time for recreating and got set up in a campground in the NYS Finger Lakes. His best friends at the time were camping and fishing there so he joined them. During his second season there, the owners went through a nasty divorce, and the grounds came up for sale. He decided that someone was going to own the campground, decided it ought to be him, and went ahead and bought it. It was not as simple as it sounds, being as we spent 20+ years trying to live on a teacher's salary...financing was not only very creative, but also was quite expensive then. The prime rates under Reagan were only a few points different from the local loan sharks, money wasn't cheap. The financial problems aside, all the upkeep and maintenance and improvement that was needed, along with the demand for constant monitoring of the property, systems, and equipment, left no time for a personal life at all. He sold his boat the first year, and never went fishing again on the lake that was situated 200 feet from his home. After 13 years there he sold out for plenty and still could not pay the bills off. His payoff was poverty and poor health for the entirety of his retirement. There were some fun times, but it was a lotta hard-knock lessons the were constantly being learned. Finding and fixing gushing water leaks at 2 AM. Standing in the bucket of the backhoe, hanging electric wires back on poles on the 3rd of July with traffic waiting on the other side of the downed wire to check into the grounds. Replacing two $1600 water pumps on the 14th of April in the snow, the day before camp opens. Juggling time to meet with the Board of Health and getting the 16-acre lawn cut before the weekend.... the list goes on. Mom-and-Pop campgrounds are not the vacation-lifestyle that everyone thinks it is for the owners. (All that having been said, I still looked at the for-sale listings. It's fun to dream even knowing the pitfalls.)
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