In Florida the job is defined by statute, carries a bond, and one specific failure is a third degree felony. Here is what the licence means and how to check somebody out.
Hours and price are in the listing. These are the questions that actually change a deal, grouped by when to ask them, from the first phone call to the closing statement.
A place in a factory schedule, a short menu, a payment calendar, and one delivery clause that decides what the quote really means.
A detail takes half a day. Maintenance takes years. How to tell which one you are looking at before you pay for a survey.
Walk it in a fixed order and most bad boats tell on themselves before you reach the engine room. A filter, not a survey.
He asked for a license, he got one, he liked the guy, he hired him. Six months later there is a yard bill nobody approved.
Salt crystals, waterlines and mismatched parts. The tells I found on two boats before my buyers signed, and the questions I put in writing.
What the survey includes, what it leaves out, and which specialists you need beyond the general surveyor. Plus the broker lines that should make you slow down.
Answered for 35 to 60 ft diesels rather than wake boats. Why idle hours cost more than the meter shows, and why low hours are often the worse problem.
The checklist I run, in order, with the reasons attached. The two numbers that matter most, and the rules I do not bend.
Buying and selling notes, what surveys actually turn up, and what South Florida yards are quoting. One email a week. No listing blasts.
