Yes — But Before You Sell Grandpa's Car, Make Sure The Paperwork Says You Actually Have The Right To Sell It Inheriting a vehicle can happen under emotional circumstances, and figuring out what to do with the car may be the last thing you feel like dealing with. Maybe you don't need another vehicle. Maybe...

Yes — But A Company-Owned Vehicle Comes With A Little More Paperwork Than The Car Sitting In Your Personal Driveway Maybe your company bought a pickup that isn't being used anymore. Maybe there's an SUV sitting behind the office collecting dust, or a company car that once made sense but now spends most of its...

YES! Your Odometer May Be Standing Still — But Your Car's Age, Condition and Depreciation Aren't. Your car has been sitting in the driveway for months. You're barely driving it, the mileage isn't climbing and you're thinking that's probably helping preserve its value. Here's the problem: your car doesn't stop aging just because you stop...

Baltimore can put a car through a lot before you're ready to sell it. Maybe yours has spent years navigating city streets, squeezing into tight parking spaces, commuting on I-95 or I-695, and collecting the little battle scars that come with actually using a vehicle every day. The bumper has a scrape. One wheel has...

Your Milwaukee car can look perfectly respectable sitting in the driveway. Clean paint. Decent interior. Engine starts every morning. Maybe you've even kept up with maintenance religiously. Then somebody puts it on a lift. Welcome to Wisconsin, where the underside of a vehicle may have an entirely different story to tell. Years of winter driving...

YES — And Your ZIP Code May Be Giving You a Very Incomplete Picture of What Your Car Is Worth. You can have the right vehicle, desirable options, reasonable mileage and great condition—and still be trying to sell it in a market that simply isn't very excited about it. That's the part many sellers never...

YES. An Accident Report Isn't a Death Sentence for Your Car's Value. THERE IT IS! ACCIDENT REPORTED! Your car has a clean title. It's been repaired. It drives perfectly well. Maybe the accident happened years ago. But that little entry sitting on the vehicle-history report can make an owner wonder whether the car just became...

Your car doesn't have to blow an engine on I-65 before you're allowed to be done with it, then sometimesvyou're just tired of paying for it. Tired of the tires. Tired of the brakes. Tired of that suspension noise. Tired of watching the mileage climb while another repair is waiting around the corner. And after...

Your car is worth $32,000. You owe $18,000. That leaves roughly $14,000 in positive equity sitting in the vehicle. If you're heading to a dealership for your next car, there's a good chance that equity will quickly become part of the conversation: “Great! We'll just put that toward your next vehicle.” But what if you...

Falling behind on a car payment can make that vehicle sitting in the driveway feel less like transportation and more like a giant monthly reminder that something needs to be handled. Maybe you missed one payment. Maybe you're several payments behind. Maybe your income changed, another major expense landed in your lap, or a car...