There probably beginning to think, what is going on here? Shouldn't they have their RV? We thought so too!
It's been crazy. Yeah. The week seemed like a month!
(Music) I know that you are having a hard time, right now...
Do we look stressed? Here we are again. Christmas Eve today, and this was the day... that we're supposed to be driving...pulling a U-Haul, with all of our stuff in it, to pick up...our fifth wheel and truck, from the same seller.
Had a deal all settled...nope. Not gonna happen. Not gonna happen...so today, we're heading over to try to find a new truck.
We've been searching frantically. What happened you may ask?!
A little bit of a mishap, and uh...we kinda wanted to share that with you because...well, for one, because we told you we're gonna have an RV this week...and, and, and we don't.
And, uh also. umm, hopefully it's a learning lesson. So here's what went on, we'll just get right to it! Get, get to it Brian! Get to it!
We had...a truck a fifth wheel picked out... south of Houston, in Alvin, Texas. By the same seller. Kind of a package deal. Private party.
We had everything planned out, we felt pretty good about it. Ummm we did have quite a few emails and texts and phone calls from this seller that made us worry from time to time.
Uh huh. This was on a Thursday, he asked us for a copy of the checks. He wanted to see them and he wanted to show them to his bank.
They were bank cashiers checks, made out to him, from our lender, our bank. Because, he was ok with it. Right. That's what he told us.
But he wanted to verify with his bank to make sure. So we took pictures...that's fine..of the checks, we sent them to him, front only of course
he took them to his bank, showed his bank the next day, then he got back to us and said everything was fine. The bank was ok with them. No questions asked.
Nothing about the cashiers checks, whatsoever. Right. He was...pretty... A little pushy, but. A little pushy at times. I mean, we were trying to figure out our plans
I mean, we're working around the holidays and my work schedule and you know...doing the best that we could
We understand being nervous on both sides. Oh yeah. Buyer and seller side, but this was a little bit...over the top.
Next thing we know, he tried calling me, and I wasn't able to get to the phone call, so he left a message.
And he was belligerant. Yelling, saying if you want anything to do with my property, you better call me right now.
Got that message and was like, oh boy. What's going on? What's this about now? So we called him back and he said he took the pictures of our checks to our bank
and they told him that there was no way that it was their checks. Now I know many of you know, Good Sams, they do RV financing through Essex Credit.
Essex credit is a subsidiary of Bank of the West. So, the check had Bank of the West on it and it also, in littler print had Essex Credit, beside it.
Michelle got on her computer, and uh...used this website that she uses for work...to. To, verify the routing number of this check.
and where it would clear through. Sent that to him, and everything was fine again. So he wanted to know our plans and what we were going to do.
instead of flying, all the way down or driving, 23 hours and then turning around and driving the truck with the RV all the way back here to palm springs.
And then, turn around from there and drive back that way for our other reservation plans. We decided we were going to get a small U-Haul and pull behind our car
like we did when we very first started, we pulled a small U-Haul as you might see from our very first video..down to Lewisville, Texas, to pick up our motorhome Vinny.
We were going to do the same thing, just put all of our stuff in that, pick up the truck and rig and...and then just go 5 hours south of there
and enjoy the time in southern Texas for the winter. Uh huh. So we made plans to spend one night in a hotel on the way down there and then stay in a hotel
there in the city where he lives. And, he offered for us to keep the U-Haul there in his driveway overnight, and agreed that we'd get up in the morning and take care of it and we'd be on our way.
So all those plans were changed and made at the last minute and luckily we were able to do that, only because of COVID right now.
A of of the snowbirds couldn't cross the boarder..from Canada...From Canada. So that's leaving a lot of vacancies right now.
Here's what comes next! He sent an email and it was..it was pretty heated in the email and it even said, if you think you're going to be taking tis property, the truck and the RV
when you come here, you have another thing coming. Made the phone call and he was saying that the bank was going to be holding the cashiers check for 7-10 days
Even though he already told us the cashiers checks were fine, he wasn't going to let us take the property, and he made the comment several times, that I have somebody else
that I'm talking to right now, that wants this rig and truck. And he wasn't nice about it at all, it was almost like he was trying to get the deal to be canceled so that he could make more money with this other buyer.
We're pretty sure of that, because... everything was fine, he was good with everything prior to all of this and then, he knew that we had all of our reservations changed...all these plans changed and made
and here we were getting ready to get the U-Haul and come on down and he wants to tell us this at the last minute. Right.
We couldn't believe what we were hearing. Right. Everything was planned, everything was ok, he agreed to everything.
All of a sudden he's not going to let us take the property. I even told him, you know...we got to make all these changes, there's a chance that we can't change them back.
He was fine with it, but then he made the mistake of telling us...And I already called your bank too and they said they do not do wire transfers.
And that's not true! It just requires another form maybe a couple other steps, but if we knew that ahead of time we could of arranged all that as well.
He knew that we were at the end of the time period there and he was trying to cancel it on purpose. We had many many signs
that we just kept ignoring...not signs from him, but signs that we felt...that something was telling us, to go a different route.
Luckily our other option that we were looking at, at the time was still available. Uh huh. We're not going to say that's what we're getting for sure, we're not going to tell you what it is right now
because every time we do that, it feels like it's a jinx. Something jinx. Yeah. We just want you guys to be aware of this sort of thing.
A lot of people say they'll never deal with a private seller, because of issues, but it could go both ways. Right, it really can.
You can have a deal with a private seller and everything can go great. And just like when we bought Vinny, we went through a dealer and this dealer had really high reviews, even though we didn't know a lot about RVs when we first bought Vinny
right away, I could tell things that some of the technicians that said they had... you know over 10 years experience, 17 years I think one of them said
I could tell wasn't true, it was kind of common sense things. Uh huh. And then other stuff that they told us, even Michelle...you know, she's not a mechanical type person, but...what?!
But there was things that she remembered hearing and we found out about later. Not everyone will be honest with you..umm, some will. We're not trying to scare you, you just really need to be conscience about things, do your research,
This was really hard on us. Right, the stress level alone was...ummm. Enormous. Enormous, and it's was really hard to stay positive, especially...I mean this was right over the Christmas holiday, but umm
you know, there...it was a sign...it wasn't meant to be and we just immediately had to switch gears and think of, ok...what now, what's our next steps, and
go from there, just switch. And that's what we're doing. This wasn't meant to be a cliffhanger. No, believe me we would of rather had it gone very smooth the whole transaction
and celebrating down in southern Texas right now. We're still gonna celebrate, oh we're gonna celebrate!
You're gonna have ups and downs, it's gonna be a roller coaster ride. that's life. Keep moving along, don't let it get you down, go to plan B, sometimes C, D
sometimes E. Hopefully not F. Hope we never get to Z.
F is what we said. Oh, never mind. yeah.
This whole lifestyle, this was something that was a dream of mine ever since I was a kid, when I took a ride with my, with my...Aunt and Uncle and my cousin in their Class C.
And my cousin and I were up above in the bunk looking down the road as we're going down the road and I was just stuck on it ever since.
It was always just a dream, I never did attempt to try to do this as a lifestyle. I got thinking about things and you know, the kind of stress that Michelle and I both went through with work and how life became monotonous.
The same ole routine life. And I just had this vision of us doing this, and once I had this vision it made me pursue it and bring the idea to Michelle.
All we can say is... is quit daydreaming about what it is you want to do... and create a vision of what you want to do, and just do it.
Along the way, learn from our mistakes...other YouTubers mistakes. Research as much as you can...and uh, just try to learn from all of our mistakes. That's...yeah... really what we're here for, is to help.
We want to help you, so that you don't go through some of the things we've had to go through.
We have one more thing that we want to show you. We've got half of this puzzle put together. Uh huh. You ready for this? Let's get out of this desert.
The first part of the puzzle. You ready? We did a thing. We did a th..we did a thing wit somebody wit we knew...we...ok, here it is.
Sorry, that's all we're showing ya. Stay tuned. We can't show you everything or you might figure out what we're getting.
We don't have a name for it yet. If you've got any ideas, we're all ears! Until then, we'll see you next week...hopefully with the RV this time.
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