It is COLD here! We did get a few warm days a week or so ago and that melted all the snow, but the Chicago winter is out in full force.
After all the improvements we put the house back on the market a week ago. We upped the price a little due to the improvements. The response has been good so far with 4 showings to date and two more scheduled this weekend. The feedback has been positive with indications people may come back as they are interested.
I confirmed that the title on the trailer had been issued by Illinois to our lienholder but the plates never made it to us, so a new set has been ordered. Does not really matter as I have started the process to get the trailer registered in South Dakota and all I needed was to know the title had been issued. That will complete all the vehicle transfers.
I went out to the trailer a couple of times in the past week to take some measurements, make sure everything was OK with it and to start the generator. The door lock was frozen so that took a little work just to get into the trailer, but other than that everything was fine and operating.
What we have found out in owning trailers is that they put storage all over the place but do not go the extra step to make it really functional. If you look at the pictures of the interior of ours you will see cabinets at the ceiling level all around the inside, but no shelves and no dividers between each cabinet. This ends up in lost space and significant movement of stuff when the trailer is in travel mode. We have come up with ideas in the past that we will implement in this one and are also looking around for other good ideas. One I did find online and hopefully it works out is a roll out pantry. We have two narrow cabinets (9” wide) that are deep. This is designed to hold all your non perishable food items. Problem is how do you get to the items in the back and also maximize the storage. I found a company that makes a roll out unit that has adjustable baskets. It does not go as deep as the cabinet but I think it should allow us to store more and get to it easily. I have not received it yet, so hopefully it works out as planned.
I also was frustrated at the lack of good sound systems for an RV so that we could have surround sound when watching TV or a DVD. In our previous trailer we had a 5.1 surround system that was nice, nothing fancy but it did the job. In this trailer they put a very basic system that has 4 speakers inside and 2 outside but is not surround sound and is very cheaply made. I did some research and could not find any RV specific home theater systems. Note: RV systems are designed to operate on 12 volt DC instead of regular house current. I did not want to run speakers and wires all over the place in the trailer so I decided to go with the Bose 3-2-1 system. This creates a surround sound atmosphere with only two small speakers and sub-woofer type module. Bose had a great online deal for Christmas so I went ahead and bought it and am very impressed with it. It should fit nicely in the trailer and will not require the running of any wires. I figured we will use the existing system to listen to music on the iPod, satellite or whatever but not to play movies. I find it interesting that the manufacturers put in 12 volt DC sound systems that include a DVD player when the TV is not DC and can only operate on AC power. I can see having a radio that runs on DC but go the extra step and put in a decent DVD player and surround system!
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