So, we’ve decided to engage a buyer’s broker to do research, provide advice and do a pre-purchase survey for us as we search for the ideal boat. This will cost us a bit more but will relieve us of a lot of effort in finding a boat. All things being equal, he may even buy the boat for us (with our agreement!) without us actually seeing it (apart from photos, of course).
This will be quite a departure from normal for us as we are generally ultra conservative but all the evidence points to this being a good plan. Of course, we would never have done this had we not come across a post, on one of the forums that I belong to, from another Kiwi who has just bought a similar boat (sight unseen) in the USA and was having it shipped to NZ.
Scary business though…….
