
Originally Posted by
sandm
living in vegas the gaming commission would have shut down the boat builders as this is a win-win for them and no positive outcome for the buyers.
if I was in 2in's position, I'd rather spend a grand with a lawyer to get out of a contract than pay an inflated price on a contract already written. it would feel better to me to pick up a 1 yr old used off onlyinboards helping a family out of a boat they don't want than supporting the industry currently but something tells me the buyers will bitch/gripe/complain but still write the check and boat builders will still cash.
karma isn't nice sometimes and this short sighted thinking will come back around. as russell pointed out, maybe some of the grip of covid cash they all had their hands out for last year should be used to offset this.
We tried buying used off of OI. Found the boat that met our needs. Problem was financing. The values of the market exceed the risk the lenders were willing to carry, and they weren’t flexible with adjusting the terms when we optioned to pay down the margin.
Example: a boat we found was listed at $155k and heavily optioned with low hours. We were looking for a 10-12 yr term below 6% with both having 800+ credit and our debt-income ratio <40% for all expenditures.
Lenders kept saying the value wasn’t there, and the best term they could offer was 7 yrs @ 6.5%. Most wanted 20% down which kept dropping us into a different loan term bracket which had higher rates and payments.
At this point it made sense to just order the boat we actually wanted vs. accommodating a boat which only mostly suited us, because we could get longer term and better rate. Our intent was that this would be our last wake boat, because after 10 yrs we have intent to move abroad.
The price increase has just soured the impending joy, along with impending rate increases as we haven’t locked our loan yet, as we only have a contract and no actual collateral.
There are many factors influencing what’s going on, and each individuals scenario is different. I’m sure if I lawyered up I could probably get out of the contract at minimal loss, but the used market lending situation isn’t improving, inventory is low everything, and I only moved to our new location so I could wake surf 9 mo a year.
So, I’ll bitch about it, and suck up the price increase, and bury it in whatever residual is left on the boat in 10 yrs.
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