May 032011
This past weekend I sold my old trailer. For 2 weeks it has sit out in the front yard the step-son's house on D Ave. There is always a lot of traffic there and have always had good luck selling vehicles here. I also had it listed on Craig's List. Had a few bites but none really serious. I just figured since the weather this spring has been so crappy that no one was really in the outdoor activity mode yet.
On Saturday Bryan had a customer appreciation event where he works and they were giving away hot dogs to their customers. Come to find out that a food permit is needed, plus running hot water, refrigerated storage for the dogs, 3 washing pans and others "requirements. Since he was planning on grilling them outside it would have been difficult to get this all setup. The old trailer comes to the rescue. I hauled it out to his work and set up. This gave us hot water, a refrigerator and places to put the wash pans.It worked out great and we grilled 160 dogs in a couple hours for the hungry customers.
Once we were done I pulled the old rig back home and figured I'd move it Monday to a different location so it could get some exposure to new potential buyers. Sunday I got a call that someone wanted to look at the trailer. Figured it was just someone that seen it on Craig's List. Lw and behold it was someone from the neighborhood that seen it for sale while walking his dog. He stopped by, I showed it to him and we talked for a couple hours. In the end he purchased it.
It will be a perfect rig for him as all he is going to do it hual it out to a campground in the spring, leave it there all summer and bring it back in the fall. I got close to what I was looking to get as I'm happy. I'm sort of sorry to see it go. It's been a good trailer and I have had a lot of great times in it. It has taught me a lot about what I wanted in a rig so I knew what I wanted in a new one.
So long old friend, you are going to a good home.