When I bought my plane several years back the A&P who owned it was very agreeable and flew it to the shop I asked him to. He was a CFI and even gave me dual in it during the test ride. He didn't get mad when I nitpicked it, and even flew it over on a day that was not so good for flying just so that it could get checked out.
As a seller he went way above and beyond what I expected, he even held the plane for me with no deposit either. I doubt you find many like that. Anyhow, after the prebuy we met and exchanged money and were off. I bought it during the Winter, that's a good time to buy because not many fly then and so a plane will set longer. During the good weather it's harder to buy one as cheap because everybody wants one.
So at least we have 2 people here who have had good luck and I hope you eventually do on that other 150, yet to read that thread to see how it turned out.
