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Bertram31.com General Bulletin Board
Re: Legal recourse to a bad survey
Posted By: bruce In Response To: Re: Legal recourse to a bad survey (Carl)
Date: Tuesday, 2 May 2006, at 5:43 p.m.
A few cents worth.
All the paper hanging on the wall doesn’t mean crap.
Bonded, certified, sounds good but is just a matter of paying dues to an organization and posting a bond with an insurance company. It doesn't guarantee anything, nada, zip.If it did, then nobody who ever had paper hanging on the wall never would have cheated, made mistakes or anything of the sort.
The more paper you have just means you have a higher knowledge of how to circumvent the system and make the little guys pay for the mistakes.
A man's character, what he does when no one else is around to see, is what it’s all about. No amount of paper will give one that.
Like any profession, there are thieving bastard brokers who would steal food from a baby and resell it.
Buy there are good ones also.
What it all boils down to is education of ones self to what ever endeavor they are immersed.
Depend on someone else’s opinion and you will be let down time and time again.When buying a boat, don't depend on a surveyor for a general look see.
If you see a lot of rust, well then there’s a problem and most likely the boat was run hard and put up wet.
Now that will tell you that the boat was not cared for and that there is no such thing as a minor problem on a boat like that.
Now if you paying a song for it, then there’s nothing to complain about.
One of the first repower jobs I ever had was a guy bought a boat, had the engines surveyed good.
He paid for the boat and on the way back to his dock one, then the other engine seized.The trouble was the gauges didn't work, there was no alarm and nobody bothered to check for oil in the engines.
Both pans had rusted thru and dumped the oil in the bilge. The owner before he sold it cleaned out the bilge.Nobody picked it up. How it was run on a sea trial I'll never know.
Caveat emptor
According to a search of your posts, you bought the boat a year a more ago. The problems should have been brought to the attention of the surveyor then.
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