DaveNagy
Well-known member
Hi again. Here's an update:
My wife and I spent a week in Georgia, and we thought it was actually quite nice. Our plan is now to buy a house in Canton, Georgia. That area is semi-sorta-rural, (kind of like a very spread out suburb of Atlanta, if I tried to describe it in Californian terms) so a Leaf is probably not a great "fit", range-wise. Coupled with the expense of shipping it out there, and my desire to get out from under the monthly loan payment, my plan is now to sell the car.
I'll be selling it to another Californian, so hopefully the refund issues we've already discussed can be handled with a minimum of fuss. I'll be following up with the relevant authorities in the weeks ahead. (I'm really busy, trying to get our house ready to sell, but soon I get it listed I should be able to spend more time on the Leaf.)
Man, that would be awesome if I could get more than $20k for the car, but I'm not going to count my chickens before they are hatched. I figured I would check Craigslist, and maybe eBay Motors to try to get a feel for what cars like mine are going for. It seems crazy to me that someone would pay close to $30k for a used Leaf, since they would not be able to get any rebates. It seems like $33k, minus the $7000-ish federal rebate, would be the max any sane individual would pay. And that assumes zero used-car depreciation.
My wife and I spent a week in Georgia, and we thought it was actually quite nice. Our plan is now to buy a house in Canton, Georgia. That area is semi-sorta-rural, (kind of like a very spread out suburb of Atlanta, if I tried to describe it in Californian terms) so a Leaf is probably not a great "fit", range-wise. Coupled with the expense of shipping it out there, and my desire to get out from under the monthly loan payment, my plan is now to sell the car.
I'll be selling it to another Californian, so hopefully the refund issues we've already discussed can be handled with a minimum of fuss. I'll be following up with the relevant authorities in the weeks ahead. (I'm really busy, trying to get our house ready to sell, but soon I get it listed I should be able to spend more time on the Leaf.)
Man, that would be awesome if I could get more than $20k for the car, but I'm not going to count my chickens before they are hatched. I figured I would check Craigslist, and maybe eBay Motors to try to get a feel for what cars like mine are going for. It seems crazy to me that someone would pay close to $30k for a used Leaf, since they would not be able to get any rebates. It seems like $33k, minus the $7000-ish federal rebate, would be the max any sane individual would pay. And that assumes zero used-car depreciation.