{"id":231,"date":"2017-05-01T12:57:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2022-10-20T08:52:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:52:02","slug":"buying-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Buying the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"viewer-foo\">When I decided to buy a camper I didn&#8217;t know anything! I was living in central Maine, which didn&#8217;t have tons of RVs for sale, and I had a budget of $14,000 to get on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-c4735\">Craigslist was my primary source for availability. I looked at the dealers but they were all pretty expensive. I saw this one listed and went to see it, the money burning a hole in my pocket. I didn&#8217;t even know what to look for and hadn&#8217;t done much research. The owners were friendly but not terribly forthcoming, just like I would be if I was selling it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-a7o4l\">It had the layout I wanted &#8211; no kitchen table and benches. It was clean and smelled nice. It started and sounded okay and only had 43,000 miles. I offered $10,000 and drove it away!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/39f52b_56c0a892b8a649d682925954a45cb645~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_584,h_438,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto\/39f52b_56c0a892b8a649d682925954a45cb645~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/39f52b_671003b8c3d640959070a01762ca2e1a~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_584,h_438,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto\/39f52b_671003b8c3d640959070a01762ca2e1a~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These were the photos in the ad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-aqm06\">WOW! Did I have a lot to learn. I replaced the tires right away &#8211; the dealer was amazed that I even got it to them. I had the furnace fixed. I bought dishes and moved my pots and clothes and everything in and presto &#8211; the money was all gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-85kh1\">I&#8217;ve made many changes to it and messed up lots and lots. Descriptions of these to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I decided to buy a camper I didn&#8217;t know anything! I was living in central Maine, which didn&#8217;t have tons of RVs for sale, and I had a budget of $14,000 to get on the road. Craigslist was my primary source for availability. I looked at the dealers but they were all pretty expensive. I saw this one listed and went to see it, the money burning a hole in my pocket. I didn&#8217;t even know what to look for and hadn&#8217;t done much research. The owners were friendly but not terribly forthcoming, just like I would be if I was selling it. It had the layout I wanted &#8211; no kitchen table and benches. It was clean and smelled nice. It started and sounded okay and only had 43,000 miles. I offered $10,000 and drove it away! These were the photos in the ad WOW! Did I have a lot to learn. I replaced the tires right away &#8211; the dealer was amazed that I even got it to them. I had the furnace fixed. I bought dishes and moved my pots and clothes and everything in and presto &#8211; the money was all gone. I&#8217;ve made many changes to it and messed up lots and lots. Descriptions of these to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waywardhounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}