ari
Well-Known Member
The likelihood of anyone going to your house and trying your door to see if it's locked whilst you are out today is also statistically minute.
Bet you still locked it though...
To my mind the biggest risk is the undeclared mortgage. Matey is in financial dire straits, bank are about to foreclose on his business and/or the mortgage company on his house. But he's got a boat worth £250K with a £240K loan secured against it and an offer of £230K. And £230K would sort out a lot of his financial problems. And he fully intends to just keep paying the loan, so where's the harm?
What to do, what to do...?
To suggest that any buyer must be "with it" is neither here nor there since it doesn't matter how "with it" you are, there's no mechanism for reliably ensuring a boat is free from encumbrance.
The laws of contract and agency may well be "robust". But that means diddy squat if the person you're pursuing has, in reality, no money and/or has done a bunk.
It does happen, it has happened.
You may be wealthy enough to take a hit on tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds and shrug your shoulders, sadly however many of us are not.
Bet you still locked it though...
To my mind the biggest risk is the undeclared mortgage. Matey is in financial dire straits, bank are about to foreclose on his business and/or the mortgage company on his house. But he's got a boat worth £250K with a £240K loan secured against it and an offer of £230K. And £230K would sort out a lot of his financial problems. And he fully intends to just keep paying the loan, so where's the harm?
What to do, what to do...?
To suggest that any buyer must be "with it" is neither here nor there since it doesn't matter how "with it" you are, there's no mechanism for reliably ensuring a boat is free from encumbrance.
The laws of contract and agency may well be "robust". But that means diddy squat if the person you're pursuing has, in reality, no money and/or has done a bunk.
It does happen, it has happened.
You may be wealthy enough to take a hit on tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds and shrug your shoulders, sadly however many of us are not.