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RE: Requirements for Importing older Mh into Canada
On our next one, we rented storage for six months in North Carolina, and the NC DMV accepted that as proof that the coach would be living in NC 6 months per year. That cost about half of taking it back to NS, but you can't take the coach into Canada if you do that. Florida will also let you register it, but I think you have to get a rent receipt and then go get a 'snowbird license' to show when you register the coach. The snowbird license is valid in Florida only, and they don't take your home license, just look at it to see you have one. Those two and Texas would be the ones to look at if you don't want to take the rig home, or if you get a coach that isn't approved for Canada (like Country Coach).
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gonesouth
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11/21/09 11:05pm |
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RE: Requirements for Importing older Mh into Canada
I bought a 90 Allegro in 2005 in Connecticut and brought it back to Nova Scotia. The US and Canadian Customs guys both came out and checked the serials, weights and dates on the VIN plate against the paperwork. This was at Calais, Me.
In those days there were a couple of tricks - CT doesn't do temporary plates, but they allow you to 'borrow' the seller's plate to run temporary on, as long as you have it in writing from the seller. You have to send it back, as the insurance can't be cancelled until the plate gets back to the DMV. This worked out well, since Massachusetts doesn't recognize temporary plates and will sieze anything running on paper plates as running without insurance and unregistered......but the seller's plate was not a problem.
Also, some US customs points will accept faxed titles as long as you bring the original when you cross - allowing you to send the papers ahead of time. Calais does not accept anything but originals, so I had to find somewhere to park it for three days while US Customs did their lien search. (In fact I went home and came back to pick it up and cross the border three days later.)
I paid GST at the border based on the bill of sale, plus an RIV fee of maybe $75, then after I got it home, I had to take it to a truck inspection point for it's safety, then with that I was able to go and register it in Nova Scotia and pay the PST again based on the bill of sale. Note that if the rig was less than 15 years old, it would have to be on the RIV acceptable list, have the DRL's and such done, and be inspected by the Crappy tire banditos, but older ones don't need even the inspection, just the provincial safety inspection, if you have one.
Later on, I sold it in Florida, so I had to go to a US Customs entry point in Florida (I went to Tampa) where a customs guy looked at the papers, looked out the window at the rig, and gave me a much-stamped form. No charge! With the form, and my NS registration, the new owner went and registered it in Florida.
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gonesouth
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11/21/09 10:58pm |
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RE: A question about motorhome For Sale on ebay.
I wouldn't be too concerned about it being no reserve. I put mine up at $1 starting bid and no reserve. No reserve auctions almost always end higher because people get caught up in the "that one's a good deal" thinking.
As far as reserves go, if you say you're also selling local, you can pull it up to the last day without a problem.
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gonesouth
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11/20/09 10:14pm |
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RE: Cat 300hp
It doesn't look like a bad deal at $25,000, but most of the better ebay dealers will allow you to back out if you cover their costs, which are usually estimated at about $250. When you consider that it will likely go for less on a second auction, they are actually being more than reasonable.
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gonesouth
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11/16/09 09:22pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Where in the States to go to buy a Class A
To comment on other posts, I have to say I got the bum's rush at John Bleakley's once I admitted I wasn't spending over $250K that DAY!!
Also, Lazydays also gives a reasonable welcome and free rein to wander around and look at the inventory, but they won't give a reasonable price if you ask, you have to beat them down inch by inch, and they do all the old car dealer things, ending with I'll sell it to you at that price, but the Sales Manager won't do it unless you come up by X thousand. As a result, you need to know the value before you do a deal there, or you will get skinned! So, it's good for the looking at motorhome part of your education, but it won't do anything for the 'what is this rig worth?' part of your education.
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gonesouth
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11/16/09 09:06pm |
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RE: Where in the States to go to buy a Class A
i'd do PPL, Nacadoches,then Alvarez. All three were welcoming to someone who looked like a tire-kicker, MHS gives you a golf cart and says, go have fun.
OTOH, once I bought from an ad in a bargain hunter type advertising magazine I picked up in a grocery store in Connecticut, and once I followed up on a post here talking about the poster's idea that a Camping world ad he saw must have been some kind of scam......I looked that night and called the next morning and made an offer. In both cases I sold for a small profit and my only regret is selling the Beaver.
I think the key is to know what you want and how much it's worth, so that when you see it you will know what is a fair offer. If you can't go through PPL and say how much they should be asking on at least half the stock, you're not really ready.
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gonesouth
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11/16/09 08:50pm |
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RE: motor coach registration
You have to look at all of the costs, annual registration, sales tax on the purchase, annual personal property tax on owning it, insurance.
I like NC because the sales tax is only 3%, with an upper limit of, IIRC, of $1500, registration on mine was about $75, and property tax is quite low. Plus, if the motorhome lives in NC six months of the year for most people that's enough to qualify you to register the motorhome in NC.
Plus it is pretty much out of the hurricane belt, for peace of mind, and storage costs are low.
PM me if you need more.
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gonesouth
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03/19/09 08:27pm |
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RE: Buying a used Class A Motor Home question?
I'd be a little nervous about an 80's coach with only 30,000 miles on it. Sounds like about 1000 to 1500 miles per year. Probably not enough to get the owner to bother to do the maintenance, unless they drove 600 miles south and stayed the winter and lived in it, in which case the appliances and interior will probably be in tough shape. Be careful of the "it was kept inside" scam. The one I bought I was told that - it turned out it had been clearcoated, which was fine until it began to peel. On the other hand, an 80's gasser should be worth something under $10,000 so it's not really a big deal......
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gonesouth
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02/18/09 11:20am |
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RE: Country Coach
Thanks Dean, for the history link. Always interesting to see how financial analysts get things balled up. The "new" widebody feature introduced in 1995 used slideouts to increase body width to 102" - funny, my 90 Beaver was 102" wide - and a friend of mine has a 92 Newmar with a slideout.
Then there's the stuff they should know - that National's move up to 4th largest manufacturer happenned because because Safari bought Beaver and then was bought by Monaco.
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gonesouth
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02/17/09 10:54am |
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RE: Mexico concern
I'm always fascinated with the 'Mexico is dangerous and overrun with the drug mob' threads. It seems to me that many of the people saying stay out of Mexico are also those who have consistently voted to make this problem worse.
Maybe it's time that the US looked at either legalizing and taxing some of this stuff, or at making use and possession of personal quantities a very serious offense. As long as the demand for the product is there from rich gringos, there will be poor people who will produce and sell it. And making it an illegal product without enforcing major penalties on users just makes the cash price higher without actually reducing the demand. And you really can't expect people to sit idly by and watch their jobs get exported to China without trying to find a new line of work.
We've tried this before, with alcohol, and it just led to a stronger richer Mafia and a more corrupted government. Isn't there a line that goes 'trying the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of stupidity'?????
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gonesouth
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01/30/09 08:19pm |
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RE: Country Coach Dynomax mechanic for 6 years I live in NC now
Having also gone on my own, i can tell you some people, and particularly some DW's find the experience of having many customers versus one customer very stressful. I look at it from the perspective that it hurts a lot less to lose one customer out of a hundred than to lose the only customer you have, but different people see risk differently, and it's usually a lack of understanding the risks that leads people to freak over the level of risk exposure.
If the OP starts a mobile service, he will soon discover what he is really worth to his customers who actually pay the bill. and he will also discover what Tom Johnson does for his share, including bringing in the customers!
As for health insurance, social security and the other costs, when it's your outfit they don't become more important, you just discover that they are a higher priority than you are.
and as for income taxes, you will discover that when you own it, your share of the community tax load drops dramatically.
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gonesouth
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01/09/09 01:52pm |
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RE: The list of coaches to import to Canada is shrinking!!
Go to this Canada Gov. site.
It lists all vehicles and their year of manufacture that is allowed
to be imported into Canada.
Beaver for instance, has to be at least a 1993
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/importation/VAFUS/list/VAFUS.pdf
The reason pre-1993 Beavers aren''t on the list is that ALL motorhomes prior to 1993 can be imported without going through the Crappy Tire inspection process.
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gonesouth
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01/02/09 10:07pm |
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RE: Lazy Days May Be Filing
The Tampa paper last week said that LD had negotiated relief until about Jan 18 to give them time to get a deal with the bondholders in place. I don't see Chapter 11 until or unless negotiations break down with the bondholders. But since there isn't much value there except the value LD has as a retailer of motorhomes, it's hard to believe that the bondholders aren't VERY interested in keeping the doors open. Of course, the CEO or the owners may decide to be a harda$$ and push too hard.......... so nothing is guaranteed.
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gonesouth
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12/31/08 09:23am |
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RE: Difference between "American Dream" "Tradition" "Eagle" ?
If you have or get the NADA guide, it has the MSRP for each one.
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gonesouth
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12/25/08 06:36pm |
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RE: How accurate is your gauge
You may want to check the electric part of the guage first. I had a post on mine a few weeks ago. A couple of propane guys posted how to check the float versus the electrcal part. One guy said he'd replaced lots of floats, but only one was actually bad, IIRC......
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gonesouth
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12/25/08 08:17am |
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RE: Fresh water tank problem
I used to know the toxicity numbers for antifreeze, but that stuff is long gone. Your doctor or local Poison control centre msy be able to tell you how much is safe, but the real problem is ethylene glycol, like ethyl alcohol, takes up the spots in the blood used to carry oxygen around. and it doesn't get cleaned out by the liver, so you have to push it out with drinking alcohol. Before someone thought of an alcohol iv, the old treatment was a bottle of rum over about 6 hours and a straitjacket.........
I'm thinking about .15% of body weight is enough to cause a problem, unless of course you have heart or lung problems, which would work out that a pint of 50/50 would have enough ethylene glycol to make 3 to 4 people very ill. So my thinking is that one complete fill and dump would be safe, three fills and complete drains would make me comfortable....especially if the second fill included a half fill and a run down the road to ensure complete mixing. Make sure you flush the pipes and taps -ALL OF THEM - each and every fill by pumping through them and then completing the tank fill. The calculations and advice are based on ensuring there aren't any puddles of high-test left to poison the next batch.
Good luck with it and have a good Christmas.
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gonesouth
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12/24/08 07:23am |
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RE: RV Antifreeze freezing at 0 degrees F??
I don't buy it. If it is getting slushy, you are getting water freezing out of the mix. REAL antifreeze doesn't do that. My propylene glycol antifreeze gets thick like honey before it finally gets hard. If yours doesn't, take it back.
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gonesouth
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12/22/08 05:24am |
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RE: Flew 2000 mi to buy DP; Dealer says "sale pending"
What was it? Maybe somebody here knows where a good one like it is sitting.
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gonesouth
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12/20/08 03:33pm |
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RE: propane
Prices here are $2.25 at the propane store, $3.25 at a campground, and $4.40 delivered by truck.
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gonesouth
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12/20/08 09:42am |
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RE: Will prices continue to fall?
My view is different. I think the prices for used motorhomes bottomed out in Novemmber. Nearly new units will still be going down in price for awhile, though.
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gonesouth
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12/17/08 08:09pm |
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