CAR GET!
This past weekend while doing research I looked up Woburn Foreign Motors. I remember that place really well since it's visible from 128 and my dad got his car there WAY back when (1987 so I would've been in kindergarten) and found a couple of likely candidates on there. Two Hyundais, both less than 3 years old, both less than $10k and with a reasonable monthly payment over 48 months. Told Mom about them Sunday, asked to go there Monday night. Except it snowed Monday night. Tuesday night was dinner out, so we went tonight. Both had been sold.
BUT. This past weekend I was at a Ford dealership and I tried out a couple of the Focus models which I found were pretty good. Heck, at this point, anything's better than a '97 Elantra with a radio that doesn't work, scratches all over and a few dents on the passenger door from when my mom decided to be kind one morning and backed my car into the place where I usually parked, and did I mention that it had been only about 25 degrees and I was trying to get out of a freaking ICE PIT.
At that dealership was a black 07 Ford Focus for under $10k, and with 35k miles on it. We drove it around the parking lot a bit, inspected it, and I decided that this would be the one. I managed to talk them into giving me $625 on my trade in after they offered me $500 and I countered with the dealership this past weekend giving me $750. So I have to get the money for the deposit transferred into my checking account, take down the title to the Elantra, call the insurance company and get everything prepared to possibly switch banks to get a lower loan rate. (And it turns out that it was one of the ones I saw on the web site and noted that I was interested in.)
It's going to be a major committment, and I'll probably have to eat PB&J for lunch instead of Lean Cuisines, but sooner rather than later. I'm kinda excited but really tired now. Hopefully tomorrow it should all sink in.
BUT. This past weekend I was at a Ford dealership and I tried out a couple of the Focus models which I found were pretty good. Heck, at this point, anything's better than a '97 Elantra with a radio that doesn't work, scratches all over and a few dents on the passenger door from when my mom decided to be kind one morning and backed my car into the place where I usually parked, and did I mention that it had been only about 25 degrees and I was trying to get out of a freaking ICE PIT.
At that dealership was a black 07 Ford Focus for under $10k, and with 35k miles on it. We drove it around the parking lot a bit, inspected it, and I decided that this would be the one. I managed to talk them into giving me $625 on my trade in after they offered me $500 and I countered with the dealership this past weekend giving me $750. So I have to get the money for the deposit transferred into my checking account, take down the title to the Elantra, call the insurance company and get everything prepared to possibly switch banks to get a lower loan rate. (And it turns out that it was one of the ones I saw on the web site and noted that I was interested in.)
It's going to be a major committment, and I'll probably have to eat PB&J for lunch instead of Lean Cuisines, but sooner rather than later. I'm kinda excited but really tired now. Hopefully tomorrow it should all sink in.