GON
$100 Site Donor 2024
I move every two-three years, typically across country, and have a handful of trailers to help with the move. I am retiring in 2024, and last summer was supposed to be my last work move.
Last year at this time I had five trailers. After I moved last summer (summer 2021), I sold three of the trailers. I had nowhere to store the trailers, so paying a lot in Columbia to store the trailers is $80 per month, times four (I could fit two of the trailers in one spot), so annual cost to store the trailers was $3840. Over three years, storage cost of trailers $11,520. I just figured in three years trailers prices will return to prior historic average prices, and I will buy whatever trailer(s) I need. I have left a 20 foot enclosed gooseneck and a 18 foot open car hauler. I am able to store the gooseneck for free at work, so I only pay to store the car hauler, $80 per month.
Last Friday, HR called me and said be prepared to move this summer (2022), to Tacoma, WA. I did not see this coming. Spent the weekend looking at new and used trailers. I am in total disbelief of both new and used trailer prices. They are 40 percent higher than what I sold my used trailers at last summer. In my research, used trailers have gone up about 40 percent higher than last summer. And used trailer prices last summer were higher than what the trailers sold new for.
I am in my late 50s, and have never seen anything like this- price appreciation for a common depreciating item.
Last year at this time I had five trailers. After I moved last summer (summer 2021), I sold three of the trailers. I had nowhere to store the trailers, so paying a lot in Columbia to store the trailers is $80 per month, times four (I could fit two of the trailers in one spot), so annual cost to store the trailers was $3840. Over three years, storage cost of trailers $11,520. I just figured in three years trailers prices will return to prior historic average prices, and I will buy whatever trailer(s) I need. I have left a 20 foot enclosed gooseneck and a 18 foot open car hauler. I am able to store the gooseneck for free at work, so I only pay to store the car hauler, $80 per month.
Last Friday, HR called me and said be prepared to move this summer (2022), to Tacoma, WA. I did not see this coming. Spent the weekend looking at new and used trailers. I am in total disbelief of both new and used trailer prices. They are 40 percent higher than what I sold my used trailers at last summer. In my research, used trailers have gone up about 40 percent higher than last summer. And used trailer prices last summer were higher than what the trailers sold new for.
I am in my late 50s, and have never seen anything like this- price appreciation for a common depreciating item.