Seller Beware

Selling my boat was, in short, a nightmare. The boat in question was a relatively low-cost fixer-upper that I bought when I was 23. This was not going to be a six-figure transaction, and well, I work in the business. Surely I could save a few bucks by listing the boat on Facebook and Craigslist and selling it myself, I thought. I thought wrong.

As the old saying goes, you get what you pay for. I received interest from tire kickers, snobs and slobs. More than a few people reached out to me with no intention of ever buying a boat; they just wanted to talk. I had