But wait, this is the horse blog?!
Yes, yes it is. We will get there good friend.
I decided that showing dogs would be better with an RV. Remember my post about being logical? Well, there's a method. Now that I owned The Sexy Beast Truck, I could haul a significant trailer. I'd also become the owner of a rocking Town and Country minivan to help share mileage duty with my truck and my excessive driving issues. So I could get something that the minivan could tow, or something beastly for the Beast.
Why aren't you getting a horse trailer?!?! Living quarters are the bomb!
Yes, I agree with you. However, due to some odd quirk, I can't get a horse trailer of any kind financed but I can buy any RV. Huh? Exactly. Such has been my situation for several years so I was giving up at this time. My old old Shelby can still and my pride can handle it, so whatever.
I stalked all sorts of RV places online. I learned as much about them as I could and debated hauling options with my available vehicles. All the costs involved, etc. It was all researched obsessively cause well, that's me. The day came when I went, research in hand, to the carefully selected and financing preapproved RV dealer that I liked and had the used RVs I wanted. We checked out the RVs, asked questions, debated ideas. The salesman was lovely but... it didn't feel right. They had a REALLY nice motorhome though and hubbs fell in love with it.
FAMILY VACATIONS! CAMPING! SO MUCH FUN!
I bit my lip and debated. It did sound like fun, but it wasn't the most efficient thing. We COULD pull the Shelby with it though so therefore a living quarter/horse trailer option? I liked that idea except... insurance was going to put this "cheap" venture way over where I wanted it. Husband was pressuring, I was balking, so I did what I do: asked about the bank and figured out a way to leave to think things over.
We got home and I debated. Finally, I hit on it: horse trailer or bust. It made the most sense ALL AROUND. Something with a gooseneck and pre installed AC, 3-4 horses, rear tack. Nothing flashy, but functional and we could do anything we wanted in it... dogs, horses, camping, travel, etc. And I prefer hauling a gooseneck over a HEAVY and LONG bumper pull.
So I called the bank the next day. The lady was amazing and happily swapped the loan to a farm loan and told me the guidelines for finding a used horse trailer. Since I'm an internet stalker always, I knew the horse trailer dealerships I liked best. Well, I'd also called and tried to get financing from several of them over the years so I knew which I disliked and which would be a pita.
NRS Trailers in Decatur always has a great influx of trailers coming through there so I contacted a salesman to give him my wish list- I was willing to wait. He gave me a few stock numbers to check out on their online inventory and I was able to help him hone it down to what I was wanting. At the end of the conversation, he told me about a nice trailer they'd just gotten in, but it was steel, not aluminum like I wanted. I frowned but agreed to check it out.
I was hooked immediately.
We picked it up that Friday and now I have a beautiful, but frugal rig. HAPPY!
