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Originally Posted by Fredcohiba
If she has family issues and no one to help her out, you would be doing a good thing by helping her out. You are the car guy, so it’s in your DNA. Give her no guarantees, only the benefit of your knowledge.
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This. LuvMyE92, are you saying you are declining to help her?! Surely not.
I have a young lady from church who heard I was a car guy and asked me for advice. She is stuck on a Toyota Rav4 and is looking at ten year old models with well over 100k miles to get one within her price range. She kept sending me links and I kept telling her they were not good choices. Too many miles and too much money. As you can imagine most of them are on “note lots”. I was encouraging her to broaden her considerations and making suggestions, but she was unwilling. I finally got pretty put out with her. I spent a fair amount of time trying to find good options for her. So I told her I wasn’t going to rubber stamp what I feel is a very poor financial decision and since she wasn’t willing to even consider the recommendations I made I had nothing more to offer her and I was going to end my involvement.
This was a first for me. I have helped lots of my friends with their car shopping. I’ve been directly responsible for the choices quite a few of them ended up making.