Selling a vehicle is usually straightforward. Selling one that belongs to an estate can feel like an entirely different matter. If you've recently lost a family member or are helping settle someone's estate, the car in the driveway may be one more responsibility added to an already long list. You may not know where the...

Facebook Marketplace and other private-sale platforms have made it incredibly easy to advertise a vehicle. Take a few photos, write a description, choose a price and your car or truck can be in front of thousands of potential buyers within minutes. But there's something sellers can easily forget in the process: You're not just advertising...

Omaha doesn't give vehicles much of an offseason. A car can spend winter dealing with freezing temperatures, snow, ice and rough roads, only to face Nebraska summer heat a few months later. Add daily commuting, highway miles and another year of normal wear, and suddenly keeping a vehicle “just a little longer” isn't necessarily the...

YOU CAN COLLECT ESTIMATES ALL DAY. EVENTUALLY, SOMEBODY HAS TO ACTUALLY BUY THE CAR. You decide you're ready to sell your car, so naturally one of the first questions is: What's this thing actually worth? Most sellers start online, and there's nothing wrong with that. KBB, Edmunds and other online valuation tools can be useful...

Atlanta has a special talent for making a perfectly reasonable distance feel like a road trip. Ask a local how far something is and miles almost become irrelevant. The real questions are: What time are you leaving? Which interstate are you taking? And what happened on I-285 five minutes ago? That's life with a vehicle...

DON’T HAVE YOUR VIN HANDY? START HERE! You decide to find out what your car is worth, pull up a vehicle valuation site and start answering questions. Year? Easy. Make and model? You know those. Then comes the VIN, and suddenly you're wondering whether you need to walk outside, find your insurance paperwork or squint...

THAT NUMBER LOOKS GREAT. NOW TRY TURNING IT INTO MONEY. You searched “Blue Book value of my car” because you're probably trying to answer what sounds like a ridiculously simple question: How much is my car worth? Then the internet gets involved. Suddenly you're looking at trade-in values, private-party numbers, dealer asking prices, condition categories...

YOUR “LOCAL” CAR BUYER DOESN’T HAVE TO HAVE A LOT DOWN THE STREET When people search for a local car buyer, they're usually looking for something pretty simple: someone who buys vehicles in their area, doesn't make the process unnecessarily difficult and won't expect them to drive three counties away just to sell a car....

Mesa is not gentle on vehicles. There may be no road salt eating away at the underside and no months of snow piled against the tires, but Arizona has its own method of collecting payment from your car: extreme heat, relentless sunshine, blowing dust, monsoon storms and mile after mile of East Valley driving. Mesa...

Before You List It, Photograph It, Clean It, Price It and Invite Strangers to Your House... Give Yourself 20 Seconds Selling a car privately sounds simple enough. You own the car. Someone wants a car. You exchange money, sign some paperwork and everybody goes home happy. Except there can be a whole lot of aggravation...