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A couple of years ago I decided to take the family on a
week long vacation up to Northern Idaho and over to Glacier National Park. We spent over a month preparing out all of
the details of the trip: food, sleeping arrangements, camping gear, etc. Of course, no family vacation is complete
without fishing gear, including the boat.
Our boat, you see, gets used pretty frequently as we're a
big fishing family. The tires on the
trailer were a little worn and needed to be replaced before our 1,200 mile
round-trip journey. After getting the boat and trailer back to the house I
had this sneaking feeling that I needed to double check all of the lug nuts on
the trailer wheels...but, of course I didn't.
The guys at the shop were professionals and I'm sure they did their job,
right?
We took the scenic route on the way up to Northern
Idaho...up through McCall, Riggins, Grangeville, Lewiston then up the windy
grade to Moscow and ended our first day's travels in the beautiful town of
Sandpoint. I was super eager to get the
boat on the water early the next day for a good, solid day of fishing.
As I rounded the last corner before the hotel I happened
to look back at the left tire of the trailer and saw it wobbling like one of my
favorite fishing lures. I immediately
pulled over thinking I'd avert a disaster, but as soon as I applied the brakes -
CRASH
- off came the whole wheel! Now, I'm not talking about the tire off the
wheel...I'm talking about the whole wheel came off the trailer slamming the
axle on the ground.
What had happened was the guys at the tire shop had
over-torqued the bolts and broken three of the six on that tire. There were only three bolts (all on the same
side) holding the wheel onto the axle.
The 400 mile drive on winding roads caused the other bolts to weaken and
eventually break. If I would have only
checked the dang things when I was home I would have never had the problem on
vacation!!!
Have you ever had one of those moments? One of those "I wish I would have done
this or that" moments? I'm sure you
have...we all have!
Here's a perfect time to do something to avoid having one
of those moments later this year. Check
out what the Washington Post has quoted Freddie Mac about the mortgage
environment later this year (as in the next few months).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/25/AR2009122501652.html
If you haven't taken advantage of the 30 year lows on
mortgage rates to refinance your home, know someone that's thinking of buying a
home, or looking at buying a new home yourself...then NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT!!
Don't say to yourself "yeah, I really need to call
Legacy soon" because you know tomorrow will turn into next week, next
week will turn into next month, and next month will turn into later this
year...and YOU'LL MISS THE BOAT to save yourself thousands of dollars.
All you have to do is give us a call or reply to this
email and we'll do all the work. We
really do want to help you and the people you know save loads and loads of
money!
Don't let this turn into another one of
"those" moments!
Call Legacy today to see about your Idaho Home Loan or to secure a new Mortgage!
By the way, the fishing trip ended up
amazing! I had to make a few calls to
some local tire guys that weren't real impressed that I was calling them at
home on a Friday night, but we managed to get the boat fixed and had an awesome
trip. Gorgeous country, amazing people,
and lots of big fish. Here are a couple of pictures.
