Time to Face The Music

IzzyBee

Happy birthday 🎂it will be sad to get rid of the boat but you will have many happy memories and the motor home to Make lots more 

joedenise

Happy birthday.  Enjoy your steak.

With regard to the motorhome personally I'd leave it until at least next year - we've been looking at changing our van for a smaller one but prices are ridiculously high this year - much higher than they were a couple of years ago!  I suspect prices will drop somewhat once people are able to go abroad again and won't want the bother and cost of a motorhome as well as holidays abroad.  It would also give you a bit more time to save some extra money so you don't need to borrow as much.

RelievedSheff

joedenise said:

Happy birthday.  Enjoy your steak.

With regard to the motorhome personally I'd leave it until at least next year - we've been looking at changing our van for a smaller one but prices are ridiculously high this year - much higher than they were a couple of years ago!  I suspect prices will drop somewhat once people are able to go abroad again and won't want the bother and cost of a motorhome as well as holidays abroad.  It would also give you a bit more time to save some extra money so you don't need to borrow as much.

Same with the boat. Prices are silly high at the moment and we have been able to put the boat far sale for far more than we would have got for it last year when we were looking to sell it.

In a  way this has offset any rises in price on the vans.

ladyholly

If you are looking for a 2nd hand van it might be worth hanging on until autumn/winter as the price tends to drop at the end of the year. (No guarantees mind) That is assuming you dont want it for the summer.

Legs21

Happy birthday 💐

RelievedSheff

Not quite a no spends day today as the other half needs to pick some ATF fluid up for the boat. Should be a low spends day though.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be from stores. Breakfast was toast, I think I will have an omelette for my lunch and dinner tonight is turkey and mushroom stroganoff with rice and vegetables.

Today's jobs include:

• working from home
• cleaning the bathrooms
• walking the dog

The other half is back at the boat today. It is taking longer than he anticipated to get it sorted out. He is in the engine bay today changing the power steering fluid and giving it a good clean out in there. Then he has the outside to wash off but that shouldn't take him as long as the inside has. He brought another car load of stuff home yesterday which we had to sort out and find homes for!!

On the plus side we do have an offer on the table for the boat as of last night but it isn't a straight forward one as they want a survey on it. It is still a good offer worth considering though but we have said we are going to let the other two interested parties look first.

RelievedSheff

ladyholly said:

If you are looking for a 2nd hand van it might be worth hanging on until autumn/winter as the price tends to drop at the end of the year. (No guarantees mind) That is assuming you dont want it for the summer.

We are in no rush to get the van. We are going to wait for the right one to come along. We plan to keep it for a good while so we want to make sure that we find the best van that we can with the lowest mileage that we can. We are pretty certain that we will be adding a fair chunk of mileage too it so we want as low a starting point as we can!

Sun_Addict

Definitely worth letting the others view it first, you might get a better offer or an unconditional offer. Won't hurt the potential purchaser to know they're not the only ones interested either. Fingers crossed ✌

RelievedSheff

Sun_Addict said:

Definitely worth letting the others view it first, you might get a better offer or an unconditional offer. Won't hurt the potential purchaser to know they're not the only ones interested either. Fingers crossed ✌

Pricing it sensibly has certainly drummed up a fair amount of interest.

alt80

@RelievedSheff see what offers you get from the others. Sounds like the boat market is booming though.