Out With The Old, In With the New

When the Cash for Clunkers was offered Orrin and I thought it was a good idea. However, we didn't give it much thought on how it could affect us. Then, when they renewed it we realized we had a clunker and we should be thinking about getting rid of it.

So, out we went on the treacherous journey of looking for new cars. Since I have a Camry we started out at Desert Toyota where I purchased my car. My experience purchasing the Camry was a positive one.

Orrin was in the world of wanting a Pick Up. We quickly realized this wouldn't work for our price range and that the program would not benefit us to much for this type of purchase. Fortunately, as I was puzzling over this out loud the salesman was listening. He suggested we look at a Scion. I didn't even know what they were.

Jackpot. They had two models to choose from. The pricing with all the features was amazing to us. For those of you familiar with these cars we got the XB. It gives you the benefit of a car as well as an SUV. It came standard with everything that was important to us.

My daughter Michelle called this morning to see if we had Buyer's remorse. She commented right away that she could tell we didn't have any. No, we don't. This car really fit the bill to a T.

I can assure you, even though it was a faithful old car, we will not miss our 1996 Chrysler Concorde with over 140,000 miles on it. Here is some other good news. We were concerned about how much our insurance would go up. Because of all the safety features it barely changed.

Good bye old clunker.

Some Real Estate Tidbits

A few days ago I was talking to an appraiser. I was curious as to how much our prices were starting to go up because of all the multiple offers on properties. That is what happened before. To my surprise she told me they were not going up at all. Even though offers were coming in higher or that the Banks were countering higher and getting acceptances, the appraisals were not coming in. So, here we stay for right now.