I hate car shopping; its the worst, I would rather go to the dentist or be on my period. Chris loves it.
My sweet husband was driving to his (6:30am) morning class and our Camry broke town. Luckily, he is friends with a car dealer in town and was able to call him and have our car towed (he did it for free, too!) and taken to the dealers mechanic. We got some bad news: the Camry needed over a thousand dollars worth of repairs. We got some good news: our dealer-friend had a client who was dying to get a Camry the exact color/make/model/year that ours was. He offered us a trade on any vehicle on his lot in exchange for our car. We were happy to do this, not wanting to deal with extensive car repairs.
However, there was nothing on the lot that fit what we were wanting/needing in a vehicle. We took the closet thing possible...a 2002 BMW SUV (in car lingo it's called an X5). It was a great car....very nice and luxurious but just too expensive for us to maintain and it had over 110,000 miles on it, so we decided to try our luck on KSL to try and sell it. We weren't expecting to have it sell right away, or have anyone willing to pay what we were asking for it. We were wrong. We had an extremely interested buyer call us two days after the ad was up. Before we knew it we were in a parking lot making the deal; getting our asking price and all!
Well, we were down to one car...which wasn't ideal with our crazy schedules. We decided to start looking again to see what we could find in our price range. Long story short....we found my dream car: a Toyota Rav 4- still under warranty! I was in love and wanted the car so badly. We went in to make an offer and found out that the car was a lot newer than we thought and out of our price range. (Enter Chris the Magical Buyer and Seller:) After some wheeling and dealing and lots of number talk we were signing papers and were owners of the Rav 4 with money in our budget to spare!
In short, we (especially me) couldn't be happier. It was crazy to see how everything worked out in such a timely manner; our school and work schedules remained virtually uninterrupted. We were able to get out of a car we couldn't afford and into a car we wanted and would be reliable for us. There is no way all of this happened by chance: we're calling it divine intervention. We are so blessed and couldn't be happier!
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