After living in a 36 foot RV for three years, we have gone back to the "stix and brix" way of life. it is time for one of us to get a retirement income finished and have a life after work. We will be posting all there is that we find about living in this downtown area of Fort Worth, Texas.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

The Hotel Overcharge and Other News

I filed a complaint on the website and then followed up with a letter. Since the position of the hotel general manager was I had spent the night and she said I did. Well I wrote a letter of inquiry to the Sheriff of the county and did a copy with attachments to the hotel corporate office and to the credit card bank. We will see how that flies with the possibility of credit card abuse or fraud.

And yes I was at home with the necessary receipts to show I was 388 miles away from Hobbs, NM.
There were three documents to that effect for placing myself at some place other that where I was charged for.

No news on the lawsuit at this point. It appears I will go ahead with it. Will cost me some money but it will ruin somebody else. That's the way it will have to be.

Gas here is $3.31 on the west side, $3.35 in town and generally in that price range that I saw today.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

RV Tire prices

I called Camping World and got some tire ptices for the RV. They priced me 245R7019.5 which are the right size but I don't know if its the "F" or "G" rating. This was several weeks ago. I'll revise the price when I get ready to buy. As I stated before I have to have tires if I take the RV off the MHS sales lot.

They are to get a price also when their tire person comes there, when ever that is. I'm not in a hurry for it though. All prices will be balanced, mounted and on the RV. The tires we have hold air pressure. But, and its a big but, they are now seven years old and beyond the service life. The max safe age is six years. Seven years is stretching a dangerous situation. The damage a blow out can cause costs much more than a set of tires.

Camping Worlds price for Michelin XRV tires, set of six, is $413.01 plus sales tax.
Camping Worlds price for Goodyear G670 tires, set of six is $496.79 plus sales tax.

I have two other places to get prices from that handle RV tires. They are located close to each other in North Fort Worth. One is Wingfoot, 2563 NE 33rd St, 817-831-6258. The other is TCI #629, 2563 Berner St, 888- 803-9330. I have not called them yet but the website says they service RV's. Once I make the call, I will up date the information and prices here.