Pensacola FL Sailing Blog - sailingnightwatch

We found out that a corporation owned the boat when we told the broker we would make an offer. He mentioned that things might not go as fast as it would if we were dealing with an individual. Little did I know the gravity of those words. Think corporate attorneys. Non-sailing corporate attorneys. Non-sailing corporate attorneys that worked for a CEO who was on his deathbed. Corporate attorneys who could care less about this deal.After 4 weeks I told the broker that no decision was a decision and thanked him for his time. A couple weeks later, the broker calls to see if I would be still interested if he could put something together. I told him I had not bought a boat yet. In a few days he call and said we were going to get a counter offer. They did, they came down $1k. I told the broker that we would counter by going up $1k. We are still over $30k apart. We never received any paper work on this first go around. Did it really happen, or was the broker dreaming and wanted to keep me on the hook. A few weeks later the broker calls and says they would drop $10k. No paper, I did nothing.