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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 702885, member: 13650&quot;]You&#039;re in a tough spot.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would borrow a vehicle from family members (if at all possible) until the job was secured for a few months.&nbsp; Then I&#039;d sell the moped only and add that to whatever cash you could save to use on a down payment on as new of a vehicle as you could get.&nbsp; But not a brand new one.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I&#039;ve sold several high dollar items in the past and it never panned out the way I expected.&nbsp;&nbsp; The money always ended up going to something else I never intended it for and next thing you know, it&#039;s gone and you didn&#039;t achieve what you thought you were going to.&nbsp;&nbsp; Granted, I wasn&#039;t going after something that was needed, but it was important none-the-less.&nbsp; &nbsp; In the end, I should have kept what I had.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now that I&#039;ve been living on my own with many bills to pay, despite having a decent job, it&#039;s not that easy to blow 1500 on this hobby and 2k on that hobby.&nbsp;&nbsp; In other words, it&#039;s hard to get something like that back.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I know others may not like my opinion here but that&#039;s the way it was for me.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Do you have to pay cash for the car?&nbsp; You&#039;re shooting for no loan?&nbsp;&nbsp; I had an old 87 Chevy pickup in highschool that was pretty sweet.&nbsp; We got it for 3900.&nbsp; I paid half and my dad paid half.&nbsp; It had 106k miles on it when I got it.&nbsp; I loved it.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Over the next several years of owning it, I had to put another 4k in it before trading it in for about 3k on a brand new one.&nbsp; &nbsp; Cars are a BAD losing proposition.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; I would get the newest thing you could afford and just make payments.&nbsp; You don&#039;t want a $500 repair to sneak up on you like I had in the first year.</p><p>&nbsp; It will help build your credit rating which you will need down the road.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you pay cash for an old beater, it has zero impact on your credit rating because there is no history.&nbsp;&nbsp; Which just makes it harder getting your next car or a house.&nbsp;&nbsp; The payments suck but you&#039;re in a better position overall.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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