I said if you want to spend 12500 look for an airplane that needs work.
You can purchase a decent straight tailed 172 now in the teens.............
.....so........
You may want to rethink that attitude in today's soft market, which is only getting softer. We consider ourselves very fortunate that we were able to sell our 150 as "fast" as we did, (over a year), for we have several friends who have had their airplanes on the market several years now trying to get a "fair" value out of them. Now we have a better understanding of why the number of derelicts sitting at airports continue to grow in numbers.........