BEWARE!! 46ft Markley Myrtle Beach

At this point I trust Noone but myself. Of course I'm a lot more educated now. You can contest to this capt J. I've been at it for a while now. I don't have a boat yet because of the dishonesty out in the market.

Some brokers are waiting for the guys with open check books to come along write it and deal with the problems themselves. Who cares if they have twice what the boat is worth within a year. Long as they get what they want. There out there, but I work hard for my money and don't let it go that easily. One thing I hate is buying something that depreciates.

The biggest problem are the issues are purposely being withheld from buyers. Brokers are unfairly putting the responsibility on the buyers, ether buy it with the problems, negotiate with owner fixing the issues, lowering the price or lose the survey cost. Brokers are hoping buyers will push through the sale even though there not happy because they have spent a couple grand in the deal already. It's just a complicated process.

Why can't owners pay for surveys first, fix issues that are found if cost effective. Present to potential buyers and honest report so they know what to expect if they want there own survey. Only problem with this is boat sitting on market for a long time could make this not cost effective.

I agree, but owner and broker still needs to be more honest about boat condition. This idea about... O that's what a survey is for is just ridiculous. A few minor things is understandable but when they find thousands or 10s of thousands of repairs needed its plan misrepresentation. With holding old surveys is fairly common to I've noticed.

Actually it is his job. Not to mention its not hard to turn things on and make sure they work and do a seatrial with owner to check drive train. Moisture, structural issues or internal engine wear is not expected. The last boat survey i paid for took him 3 hours. Cost was 750. Now come on 200.00 an hour to turn things on and run a meter over boat. Engine survey took two hours which was 1400.00. If boat turned out well, owner reduced the price or repaired items. I would have been fine with it. But owner wouldn't do anything to sell the boat.

I disagree, there memories, ways to spend time with friends and family. Enjoying life to its fullest doing what you love is priceless in a sense. Brokers have a choice. Properly disclose condition or chose to play ignorant and hope they don't piss off potential buyers and lose a sale.

I don't expect a perfect discloser, just a honest one with items they know about and how could they not, it's there boat. Knowing what works and what does doesn't, also any mechanical issues normally determines the value of the boat, who doesn't want as much as they can get for there boat. Why play games with people?. I guess if they say there boat is perfect when it's not, there not being truthfull. I would never sell my boat and expect my broker to hide or lie about the issues or i would just get them fixed. Nor would i hide them from my broker. Honesty goes a long way in business.

It wasnt terrible but not good as they thought with only 350 hours. After I got the hours since last oil change, oil test showed excessive wear for those hours. Possibly could have been the over heating issues prior to survey. Scanner showed three overheating cycles. Impeller was bad and had to be changed. Also it had high blow by readings. Tranny was good. Coolant showed some issues and was discolored.

I agree, several missing parts of the boats history