Musketeer
We had one on our flying group at Rochester back in the late 70's. We were all fairly new PPL's, mainly Condor trained. I don't recall any of the problems related here and found it a very simple, straightforward thing to fly.
We used to call it 'The Flying Breeze Block'. It seemed heavy, underpowered and generally unpleasant.
We traded it for a new 172N and that was as good as the Musketeer was bad.
Look around for a Robin 180 instead. You can then load the thing up with fuel, 4 people and baggage, not worry too much about overloading the thing and no worries about Cof G.
If the choice is wide, go for something a bit more exciting than the Musketeer - horrible thing.
HP