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Originally Posted by Hemmi
What's the value of the car? Small claims court you can do yourself but it has a $5000 limit for awards. Yes, I'm a Judge Judy fan.
As for your mother not being able to handle things, have you considered doing a Power of Attorney? That would give you legal authority to act on behalf of your parents.
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I may have have made it sound worse than she is with that - she just cannot take much stress well and has asked me for help, and has been relieved I've dealt with most of it. It's not power of attorney level yet - and hopefully never, but you never know. I'm blessed to have a good relationship with both parents, they're sweethearts who deserve to enjoy their retirement. This whole thing is made worse by all that, especially since the money they were going to use for the car was a new credit card they got at the of last year to pay for my dad's oral surgery and to finally get top dentures. They decided to do the 1800+ in repairs and delay his teeth ONLY because of the mechanics reassuring them repeatably that the car was worth it after these "small maintenance repairs".
I may be repeating myself, I've done so many ranting posts over weeks (thank you all for listening, by the way, stress outlet for me.)
The book value for a used Chevy Cruz ... well, I don't know. I have googled it. Places
like this say over 10 sometimes, which sounds too high.
Here's one for over 9000 for more miles on it than ours had. Kelly Blue Book
said from 8-9 Edmunds was the lowest, saying 4-5.