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These sound like people you don't want to be buying aircraft from, for
many reasons. I think you treated the guy you talked to last night with
exactly what he deserved and was asking for.

The whole aviation industry isn't quite like this, but, well, I consider
it similar to buying a used car. Only with airplanes, the financial
stakes are much higher, so the low-lifes are that much lower. The state
of the economy in the past few years is a big contributor---people are
short on money, and for many of them their planes end up being short on
attention as a result.

Hmm...I remember hearing this excuse from wayyyyyy back. When ever money is
tight, maintenance is the first thing to go. I remember it way back as to
why our interstate highway system, newly built in the 50's, was
deteriorating in the 1960s'. The greatly increased fuel taxes to "maintain
the roads". By the 1970's and 80's, they had to come up with other excuses
when the tax revenues wound up in the various general funds.

The more things change...