Agreed there are certain aspects that were clearly done by someone else. No chance whoever did the interior would ever come anywhere close to completing a roof raise themselves. Looks like they spent all their money on it, too.
My thing is, I'm not going to give them the benefit of the doubt that anything was going to be corrected: they are selling it! Scrutiny is wholly justified.
Maybe if you were already looking for a Vista (who?) and planned to do an extreme roof-raise, then the value could be there...in my opinion it would be...unwise to purchase this one.
As a builder myself I see way WAY too many indicators of incompetence; I could never trust anything else they did. I'd have to tear it all out and start over to feel good about it. Everything about that loft screams total lack of forethought and I have to assume the rest is just as shoddy.
The roof raise is a red herring.
I know I posted this in the "For Sale" thread but this is supposed to be cautionary. Someone posted it on the Subreddit and almost no-one in the comments was discussing the issues I mentioned here. Just "wow roof raise tall". It kinda scares me a bit, there are a LOT of people out there going and buying a bus to convert without the slightest effort at educating themselves on the process. These people would not know not to buy this bus, ands could get hurt when something fails. They get out on the road and get blown over in a gust of wind and crush a family of 5 in a sedan. Or, have to slam on the brakes and the entire loft structure breaks free and joins the driver in the front seat.
I know I'm new here but I think it's safe to say, purchasing partial conversions should be done with extreme caution. I would say about 19/20 partial skoolies on FBM have critical quality issues. People immediately **** something up, cover it up, then list it for twice what they paid.
Not giving this person the benefit of the doubt at all.
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