Archive for May, 2005

>The fallout over a consignment RV dealer is continuing three years after consumers were first warned about him.

Calgary, Alberta Canada, sellers lost more than seven hundred thousand dollars to dealership owner Daniel Owen.

And now buyers are discovering they are unknowing victims too.

Brent Brodoway and his wife bought a used RV and pickup truck from Owen RV’s.

They paid in full but that wasn’t enough to stop a bailiff from the bank from knocking on their door three years later.

“It was quite a shock,” said Brodoway. “They didn’t even have our name, they just tracked us down through the registration of our vehicle.”

The previous owner of the vehicle had defaulted on the loan for the RV because he never received the cash from the sale from Owen.

Now the bank is trying to repossess the vehicle from Brodoway to cover its loss. Full Story…

>Q) I will turn 65 in July and am researching medicare supplement policies. We are full-time RV-ers, living in our motorhome and traveling throughout the country all year long. Are there any restrictions on where a medigap policy can be used?

A) You’re in luck. Most medicare supplement policies can be used with any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare. As long as you get a traditional medigap policy — not one that provides discounts to a preferred-provider network — then you should get the same coverage anywhere your RV takes you. Full Story…

>Charlotte Pinick takes a quick inventory: Five recreational vehicles parked in a nearby truck stop parking lot; a few more up the road at the Wal-Mart.

That’s more than $120 the owner of Emporia, Kansas, RV Park won’t be bringing in this day as travelers choose free parking over the campsites with water, electricity, dump station and wireless Internet service Pinick and her husband are offering for $22.50 a night.

“We don’t like it, but it’s one of those things,” Pinick says of the RVs that could have been filling the 20-some empty spaces in her RV park. Full Story…