{"id":61754,"date":"2016-06-28T00:09:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=61754"},"modified":"2016-06-28T00:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:09:58","slug":"shasta-glamperized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/61754","title":{"rendered":"Shasta, Glamperized!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIf you’ve read my Glamping with MaryJane<\/em> book, you might remember my little story about a Shasta trailer I fell in love with after seeing it for sale on craigslist. After all, my family had an almost identical one when I was growing up (that’s me in the tire swing at our deer hunting camp).<\/p>\n

\"Butters-Family-Album-scan047\"<\/a>So when I saw this craigslist ad …<\/p>\n

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… I couldn’t resist buying it sight unseen. So\u00a0much for the “no disappointment” part. Here’s the\u00a0tale of woe I told in my book:<\/p>\n

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“Let me be your example of why sight-unseen can be a problem. If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019re an optimist. You hope for the best. Plus, you\u2019re short on time. When I talked to the owner of this Shasta (that I ended up buying sight-unseen for $2,500), he said there wasn\u2019t any mold or water damage. (I asked twice.) And all the windows and outside lights had been recaulked. But he failed to mention a cheap caulk had been used that you can scrape off with your fingernail. Oh, and there was definitely mold and water damage. In addition, he didn\u2019t mention the gaping holes in the side or rust in the fridge or the fact that the stove didn\u2019t work OR that it had a shady history and had been stolen in a former life (revealed during the title transfer). When my farmhand pulled it into my driveway after a five-hour drive, I wrote the seller an e-mail expressing my dismay. To his credit, he said, \u201cI would be happy to take it back and pay for the gas for the return trip.\u201d Once I got the windows washed, I could see her potential. So I kept her, but I will never buy a trailer again without seeing it first.”<\/p>\n

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After reconsidering the extensive renovations it would need,\u00a0I ended up selling it for the same price I bought it for to a\u00a0woman from Boise, Idaho, who’d seen it in my book. When she asked if I knew of anyone in the Boise area who could help her glamperize and renovate her new baby, I posted that question on our\u00a0Gampers on the Loose<\/a> Facebook page, and was able to put her in touch with someone willing to renovate it. She recently wrote, “We are getting\u00a0close to finished\u2014just minor touchups and\u00a0polish-it-to-a-mirror-shine and we’re good\u00a0to go. It’s been a worthwhile journey that we couldn’t have done without\u00a0help.”<\/p>\n

Here she is all gussied up and ready to roll. All’s well that ends well.<\/p>\n

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