We are now getting more and more discouraged, worried, upset, and angry. We are really trying to be patient, but it is tough when we keep running in to road blocks! The situation right now is that the registration and title are being held up at the California DMV awaiting customs paperwork for BOTH vehicles! Mike said that the dealer DMV office he goes to didn’t ask for the paperwork from customs when he went there on February 10th and turned in the Dealer’s Bill of Sale and Canadian Titles. So, now he is waiting for a call back from customs to find out if he actually has to physically take both vehicles down to Long Beach to be processed and obtain the proper paperwork for the DMV to process the registration and issue an American Title. In the meantime, our time is running out on our loan offer.
Yesterday we actually got an email from Amanda at Southeast Financial saying that, “They are sorry that we chose to not proceed with their loan offer.” What??? Tom freaked out and so I forwarded it to Elizabeth at Southeast Financial that we’ve been working with and that had already extended our loan approval due to the problems. She emailed back right away and confirmed that we were extended and to disregard the email from Amanda. Whew!!
It seems that nothing can ever go smoothly for us. There always has to be a problem and road block or delay or stress!! Ugh!! I guess that’s what helps keep us strong! Yikes! Haha!
I just really hope that it all works out and that we can still get THIS fifth wheel. We love it and it really seems like it will work out for us for living in full time. We just get more and more excited every day, especially with all the researching, reading, and watching videos that we do.
It does feel better though when something crappy happens at work, that we have the comfort in knowing that we have an exit strategy!
Time to update – not much!! Last week while Tom was in Nashville for work, I was pretty much sick the whole week and didn’t work nor did I go by the dealership at all. When I went to the post office, there still weren’t any plates for the truck or the RV, so we can bet that the finance company hasn’t received any papers yet.
I called Southeast Financial to find out if they received anything, but never received a call back. Hopefully, we will hear something tomorrow.
In the meantime, Tom and I continue to purge, go through things and sell things on eBay. We went through the artist plaques and some framed pictures and separated them in to groups: eBay; Craigslist; yard sale; keep; give to friends and family; frames to sell; frames to give to Alec; etc.
We’ve also been reading on more stuff about RVs and jobs for full-timers. There really is a lot out there. There is even a program with Amazon at their facility in Fernley, NV during the holiday season (Sep-Dec). They even pay for your campsite. It could be an awesome thing for us! We could work there and then be in Reno for Christmas! There are long hours, etc., but it’s good money and it isn’t for that long. We’ll have to hope that they continue this program so that maybe we can do it next year. I’d love for us to do it this year, but I don’t know if we’ll be ready by this year.
There are a ton of resources and ideas online. Full-time RVing is WAY more popular than you might think!
We had a fun weekend taking the truck out and about and learning how to drive it and how big it is in lanes and in parking spaces. Suffice it to say that even without the Alpha attached to it, we will NEVER park close to any store front door! Hahaha
Daisy had fun going for a ride in her new truck. We drove up to the Nordic Base of Mt. Pinos and got out and walked around. It was a pretty drive and kind of reminded us of the Lake Tahoe area a little in some areas. It was really sad though because there wasn’t any snow at all! Well, we saw a couple of itty-bitty patches but that was it!
On Sunday, we drove down to Valencia and went to check out Camping World. We called ahead to see if we could bring Daisy and we were so happy to hear, “Yes!” We walked up and down every row and took pictures of things that interested us. Of course, there are a lot of things there that we can get a lot less expensive at Walmart or online, but it was cool to see so many fun things specific for our RV home.
We walked around outside a little and looked at some of the rigs on the lot and came away really happy with our Alpha. None of them had exactly what we love about our Alpha.
Things sure don’t work out like you plan, do they?? We WERE able to get the truck earlier this week, but things are still held up with the Alpha. Dang!! We have the truck and went last night to fill it up with fuel. It was on empty and we filled it with 30.074 gallons of diesel at $4.159 per gallon = $125.08. We are keeping a little notebook in the truck to keep track of mileage and fuel costs.
The hold up with the Alpha now is like I said in the last entry, Mike was going to register the Alpha in our name and then put Southeast Financial as the lien holder, however; the problem is that Southeast Financial is NOT a finance company, they are a broker! None of us knew this. So, they have to have an American title to show to the banks that they represent. The biggest problem is that we were only approved for a 30 day period and locked into the rate that made it so that we could afford both payments (Ford and Alpha). I talked to Elizabeth at Southeast and she extended the 30 days to 60, but that was for the credit approval only. If the finance rate goes up, we might not be able to afford the monthly payment and won’t be able to get the Alpha. Needless to say, we are VERY disappointed!! We had hoped to have the whole set up here at home this weekend before Tom goes to Nashville next week. Oh well! We’ll just have to be patient. Ha!! We’ll just have to keep our fingers crossed that it all comes through soon and that the rate doesn’t increase!
We are going to head out for a drive today and take Daisy for a ride in the truck.
It will be interesting to see how well (or not) Daisy gets up in to the big truck and then the Alpha.