AndyK
TVWBB Wizard
I need to move a few heavy items from the San Francisco area to NW Washington.
Several gang boxes of tools, several motorcycles and some house stuff.
The price for a trailer rental if you can find one is insane.
There are no one-way rentals and most places won’t let you leave the local area much less go a few states away.
It’s a good 2-3 thousand to do this load.
So I looked for a used trailer, thinking buy one, use it then sell it and guess what?
Everyone has this same idea so the used ones cost almost the same as the new ones.
Apparently there are lots of people moving away from California and that creates an imbalance resulting in a shortage of available rental stock.
So I finally find a new one that would more or less work ok.
It costs $3,299 and the wife thinks I’m nut so she says no.
So she try’s to find a rental and finds out what I’m dealing with and agrees to buy the trailer for $3,299.
Well that price just jumped up to $3,899 due to the seasonal pricing change.
So we agree to buy this trailer make a deal over the phone and go to pick it up on our way to California because it’s 3 hours closer to California than our house.
We get there and realize that this trailer is crap.
It’s structure is just welded together angle iron.
$5,700 later I closed the deal on a good trailer that will work and it still needs about $1,500 in improvements like walls, more tie downs and stuff like that.
I now get to spend a few days modifying the trailer and to be honest it’s fun as hell.
I have a bunch of Amazon deliveries this week and even ordered it a cool tool box.
Hell I might even put a winch on it.
I could use this trailer for our place up north for a few years (and then sell it) to clear brush between the trees, haul logs and a winch would make loading stumps and logs much easier.
Several gang boxes of tools, several motorcycles and some house stuff.
The price for a trailer rental if you can find one is insane.
There are no one-way rentals and most places won’t let you leave the local area much less go a few states away.
It’s a good 2-3 thousand to do this load.
So I looked for a used trailer, thinking buy one, use it then sell it and guess what?
Everyone has this same idea so the used ones cost almost the same as the new ones.
Apparently there are lots of people moving away from California and that creates an imbalance resulting in a shortage of available rental stock.
So I finally find a new one that would more or less work ok.
It costs $3,299 and the wife thinks I’m nut so she says no.
So she try’s to find a rental and finds out what I’m dealing with and agrees to buy the trailer for $3,299.
Well that price just jumped up to $3,899 due to the seasonal pricing change.
So we agree to buy this trailer make a deal over the phone and go to pick it up on our way to California because it’s 3 hours closer to California than our house.
We get there and realize that this trailer is crap.
It’s structure is just welded together angle iron.
$5,700 later I closed the deal on a good trailer that will work and it still needs about $1,500 in improvements like walls, more tie downs and stuff like that.
I now get to spend a few days modifying the trailer and to be honest it’s fun as hell.
I have a bunch of Amazon deliveries this week and even ordered it a cool tool box.
Hell I might even put a winch on it.
I could use this trailer for our place up north for a few years (and then sell it) to clear brush between the trees, haul logs and a winch would make loading stumps and logs much easier.
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