Now is the time to sell your used car.
We just sold our 2012 Chevy Cruze. It had been sitting in our driveway collecting grime from the tree above for about a year now. I’m not going into the office anytime soon and Tay doesn’t have to go in too often either. With our plans to move to Asheville in the coming year, I will transition into fully remote work indefinitely. We go and do everything together, and on the rare chance we both need to go somewhere at the same time, we have the motorcycle. And if that doesn’t work, we always have Uber.
Last year around October, Tay, unfortunately, totaled her precious 4-Runner. As tragic as it was, God supplied for our needs. The insurance gave us way more than we could have gotten had we tried to sell the car! This allowed us to have a decent down payment on the first car we ever bought together! A 2017 Subaru Outback that we have absolutely loved! It is the car that took us on our incredible cross-country trip a few months ago. A trip we could have never made in the 4-Runner nor the Chevy. Or the motorcycle though that would have been fun.
The Lord always provides!
Before we got the Subaru, though, Tay was out of a car for about 2 months. During that time, I was still working remotely, but Tay was having to go into the office. We decided she could just drive the Chevy and I’d use the motorcycle if I needed to go anywhere. We never had any issues with that plan; not that I went many places. I could still go grocery shopping for small amounts to fit in a backpack, meet my mentor for coffee, and get around town to meet Tay after work. I got plenty of cold-weather gear when the weather started turning so I’m all set up now.
After that whole adventure, we finally got the Subaru! And a month after that we got married and started our life together with 2 cars and a motorcycle.
Fast forward about 9 months and we’re sitting around thinking, “Gosh, the Chevy never gets driven. It’d be nice to sell it and pay off the Subaru, plus help someone that might need it.”
It took us a couple of weeks to get it ready, but we finally got it cleaned out, polished up, and Tay took some photos of it. We did our research on Kelly Blue Book and even got an offer from Carmax to see what that would look like. After our research, we posted it on the Sunday before labor day for what we thought was a reasonable price for the condition and model.
I kid you not, less than 24 hours we sold the car!
Not only that, but in that time we had 104 people message us about it! 104!
We didn’t price it that low, guys. We went more than double what Carmax was offering and about the middle of the road on KBB. The used car market is just in high demand. I’m not sure why, to be honest. Where are these people driving to?
The Lord provides, though! We decided to respond in the order we got them. Only seemed fair. Our first response was about 10 minutes after we posted it. Turns out it was a mom in Asheboro who was buying her daughter a car.
We ended up meeting them at our local Caribou and they were the nicest people. The mom and daughter showed up along with the mom’s dad. They looked over the car, the daughter took it for a test drive around the parking lot, and she absolutely fell in love with it.
Every time the mom asked her dad if he thought it was a good car, she would say her daughter really likes it. And every time she said that her daughter got this huge smile on her face.
That warmed our hearts for the rest of the day. Not only did it help us out to get the extra cash and pay off the Subaru, but we got to provide a new car for someone that will really love and appreciate it. Instead of us just paying taxes and insurance for something sitting in our driveway.
I say it again, the Lord provides!