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 Party Girl
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | Who does everyone have their LQ's financied with? Do you use a bigger company or a smaller bank in your town?
Trying to do some research and see what my best options would be. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Idahome | I don't have a LQ, but with anything else I have ever dealt with on financing I would stay away from the big banks. They seem to be a pain in the azz to work with. I know it's different, but we are working on buying a new home and the smaller bank here in my town has been so much easier to work with. The gal that is helping us is constantly calling with updates on the interest rates, different programs that would work for us, etc. It seems they care more about YOU and want to help anyway they can. |
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 Tough Patooty
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Location: Sperry, OK | It probably would depend on how long you needed to finance it for. Your local smaller bank will probably only loan on it like a vehicle (5 yrs or so), but if you finance through the dealer (who they use), you can probably get it stretched out quite a bit longer to get the payment down.. if need be. That would be where I started to look, based on my payment needs. |
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Location: Oregon | I've had better luck with credit unions rather than larger banks. Check into your employer as well. My mom's company has kindof an internal/employee credit union that she was able to finance hers through with SUPER low interest. I believe mine is actually financed as an "RV" to get a longer loan term, rather than just a horse trailer. |
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 Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Mine is financed through our locally owned bank. |
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  Friendly horse swapper
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Location: Buffalo, TX | Horse trailers are considered recreational vehicles in the financial world, so the rules are different than a vehicle....Local banks are easier to deal with and less paperwork, but they don't know much about trailers, so they are scared to finance more than 5 years or so, and on a big LQ, that's a HUGE payment.....for older non-LQ's, or steel trailers, they are a good choice...
We use the big banks like Boulevard, Bank of America, First Internet of Indiana, USAA, Medallion, Marine One, etc...they know trailers and will offer 15 years on LQ's and 10 years on aluminum non LQ's depending on year...over 10 years old and the term drops significantly, and the interest goes up....they have more paperwork....you are a number, not a person....but they are fast and have great terms for average to great credit scores....
Boulevard offers the best interest rates if you have a good credit score and you can get 4.5%-4.95%.....Medallion and Marine One are special lenders if you have credit challenges and will still lend the money for a trailer, but with different tiers of interest rates from 9.9%-18.95% depending on your situation to help you get credit re-established....they are hungry and will even loan to recent bankruptcy customers, but no one with tax liens or back child support gets a loan from anyone....
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 That's White "Man" to You
Posts: 5515
| Look at it this way:
Say you borrow $40,000
Rate should average about 6% based on current market conditions.
5 Year term: Payment: $774 and $6,398.72 in interest
10 Year term: Payment: $445 and $13,289.84 in interest
15 Year term: Payment: 338 and $20,757.69 in interest
So it just depends on how much you really want to pay for the trailer. I would go as short as term as possible.
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Friendly horse swapper
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Location: Buffalo, TX | Whiteboy - 2014-04-15 2:51 PM Look at it this way:
Say you borrow $40,000
Rate should average about 6% based on current market conditions.
5 Year term: Payment: $774 and $6,398.72 in interest
10 Year term: Payment: $445 and $13,289.84 in interest
15 Year term: Payment: 338 and $20,757.69 in interest
So it just depends on how much you really want to pay for the trailer. I would go as short as term as possible.
Correct!....but most people don't keep a trailer for 10 or 15 years...at least in my experience.....and they consider the payment part of the cost of having horses and being able to haul them around.....plus, if you take good care of the trailer and keep it maintained, it will hold it's value pretty good....
You can't really look at principal plus interest or you'd go nuts....you just look at the payment you can afford and figure it's part of the expense of what you like to do do...if you tried to get these things paid off in 5 years, the average person could never afford to go anywhere and use what you have....that's why they are called RV loans and set up for long term recreational use.... |
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| We used our local credit union. They offered 2% less than what the banks the dealer was working with could do. Even our salesman was impressed. |
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Location: would like to be where it does not snow | Southeast financail is really good to work with we have bought two trailers through them. You can find them on Horse Trailer World. |
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Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Whiteboy - 2014-04-15 2:51 PM Look at it this way:
Say you borrow $40,000
Rate should average about 6% based on current market conditions.
5 Year term: Payment: $774 and $6,398.72 in interest
10 Year term: Payment: $445 and $13,289.84 in interest
15 Year term: Payment: 338 and $20,757.69 in interest
So it just depends on how much you really want to pay for the trailer. I would go as short as term as possible.
Exactly! I budgeted so that with selling the old trailer plus some cash, we only had to finance for 3 years and we got a 3.5% interest rate. I can't bring myself to pay large amounts of interest for something that depreciates. |
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That's White "Man" to You
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| I have also had lots of customers that "need" to go longer term to be able to afford it. Then several years down the road they are upside down when they want to upgrade the trailer but they are stuck with it. WWDD...What Would Dave (Ramsey) Do? |
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 Living within my means
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Location: Randolph, Utah | UTAHCANCHASER - 2014-04-15 10:12 AM
Who does everyone have their LQ's financied with? Do you use a bigger company or a smaller bank in your town?
Trying to do some research and see what my best options would be.
I did my trailer through mountain America credit union. They were really easy to work with, even though mine is a living quarter they still did it as an RV loan. |
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 The Original Cyber Bartender
Location: Washington | CASH IS KING.....
did I win a prize Whiteboy?
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Friendly horse swapper
Posts: 4122
Location: Buffalo, TX | Whiteboy - 2014-04-15 3:14 PM I have also had lots of customers that "need" to go longer term to be able to afford it. Then several years down the road they are upside down when they want to upgrade the trailer but they are stuck with it. WWDD...What Would Dave (Ramsey) Do?
I hear ya....there are very few horse people out there that can afford to go short term on a trailer unless thay make good money or are good money managers....and you are right...if they trade within 5 years, they normally don't heve enough equity to come out good on the deal.....
In 10 years of selling and financing trailers, out of the approximate 200 trailers we sell per year, I seriously only encounter about 2 people each year who make huge down payments or finance for under 10 years on ANY aluminum trailer (LQ or not)....We even sell about 80 new steel trailers a year that sell for under $7500 and 95% of those are financed for 5 years....
Moral of the story....my theory is that the majority of horse people want disposable income for gas, entry fees, vet bills, feed, equipment etc. and they don't subscribe to the Dave Ramsey way of life....being debt free to them also means giving up too much of what they love....a double edged sword for sure....we live in a world of instant gratification.....I bet if you do a survey on here, you won't find very many who could budget their horses, trucks, and trailers into the Dave Ramsey program.....don't get me wrong, I like Dave Ramsey a lot....I'm just being realistic....
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That's White "Man" to You
Posts: 5515
| fatchance - 2014-04-15 3:22 PM CASH IS KING.....
did I win a prize Whiteboy?
 You got it!! |
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Friendly horse swapper
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Location: Buffalo, TX | fatchance - 2014-04-15 3:22 PM CASH IS KING.....
did I win a prize Whiteboy?
It is for me personally.....I pay cash for everything except my rent houses....they are my only debt in life and it's for a reason....passive "cash" flow and all the tax perks of owning real estate.....I do NOT want anyone earning interest for me on trucks or trailers.....cash really is king..... |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | I'm curious (and sorry if it's hijacking)...
To those of you with LQ trailers.... how long you plan on keeping them? Less than ten years? Less than five? How often do you trade up or trade to get something different? |
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 The Bird Lady
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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | Longneck - 2014-04-15 3:54 PM I'm curious (and sorry if it's hijacking)...
To those of you with LQ trailers.... how long you plan on keeping them? Less than ten years? Less than five? How often do you trade up or trade to get something different?
We bought what we wanted, barely could afford and plan on keeping it til we both die. |
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 Shelter Dog Lover
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| Longneck - 2014-04-15 3:54 PM I'm curious (and sorry if it's hijacking)...
To those of you with LQ trailers.... how long you plan on keeping them? Less than ten years? Less than five? How often do you trade up or trade to get something different?
Our first trailer was a 4 horse 7 ft LQ, had it 2 years then went to a 6 horse with 10' LQ, hauled it 5 years, girls quit riding, sold it and bought a used 4h 10' LQ. I have had it for 4 years, love it, it was a show demo trailer and has a nice LQ. It should be my last trailer. Paid cash for all the trailers and all are Cimmarons. |
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