Advice needed: College Student in need of a vehicle - where to buy

[mschwartzeee]

We have lived in The Villages for just over a year and our son's car just died. Not sure what dealers are trustworthy in the area and looking out for flood cars. If you have a vehicle with less than 100,000 miles for sale, please send a private message. He has cash and is scanning the classifieds in this forum, as well as Next Door, Facebook marketplace, and the usual car websites. Thanks in advance.

[Pairadocs]

Just be very VERY careful even if private listing. Our son, law student, was suckered into a private ad.... female member of military, leaving for over seas duty, etc. etc. It did not end well ! All a scam. "PERHAPS", that's "perhaps", answering an ad right here in the Villages could be a bit "safer", we have known a number of people who, after living here a few months, decided NOT to continue the expense of two automobiles once they found they can do nicely with one golf cart and one auto, but it a very "dangerous" buyer beware" world for sure.

[mschwartzeee]

Just be very VERY careful even if private listing. Our son, law student, was suckered into a private ad.... female member of military, leaving for over seas duty, etc. etc. It did not end well ! All a scam. "PERHAPS", that's "perhaps", answering an ad right here in the Villages could be a bit "safer", we have known a number of people who, after living here a few months, decided NOT to continue the expense of two automobiles once they found they can do nicely with one golf cart and one auto, but it a very "dangerous" buyer beware" world for sure.
Great advice! And yes, we are hoping someone is downsizing their vehicle fleet here in The Villages and our son can get a good reliable vehicle. Thanks again!

[dewilson58]

This site has cars ranging from about $10k to $50k................big range.

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

We have lived in The Villages for just over a year and our son's car just died. Not sure what dealers are trustworthy in the area and looking out for flood cars. If you have a vehicle with less than 100,000 miles for sale, please send a private message. He has cash and is scanning the classifieds in this forum, as well as Next Door, Facebook marketplace, and the usual car websites. Thanks in advance.good advice here , but it might help to put a little ad in villages paper, saying looking to buy , you may get a hit from some private buyer

[mschwartzeee]

Thanks again for all of the great advice. We are hoping to buy a vehicle from a neighbor here in The Villages - so if you know of someone selling a vehicle, please let us know!

[retiredguy123]

Thanks again for all of the great advice. We are hoping to buy a vehicle from a neighbor here in The Villages - so if you know of someone selling a vehicle, please let us know!
Have you tried Carmax in Ocala? They seem to have a lot of used cars. The ones that have 80 to 100K miles are about $10-12K. You can check out their inventory online.