New vehicle

It was time to get another vehicle.  The last time we bought a vehicle was 7 years ago.  We put quite a few miles on our suburban, and things were starting to fail.  Before it turned into a money pit, we decided to get something else.  We knew we wanted another suburban, the year range, and less than 100,000 miles, so our search was fairly limited.  We found three that fit with what we wanted and headed to check them out.  We bought the 2nd one we looked at, which was about 2 hours from where we live.  

We hate the whole negotiating process, but we survived.  The price that was listed online was deemed high according to cargurus.com, so we offered to buy it for a little lower than the suggested price on that website.  The dealer only came down $200.  Apparently the fair market value was about $1200 less than what they listed for, so we offered $1500 less than their listing.  They wouldn't come down more than $500 + delivering the car to our home.  Alex was about to take the deal, but I thought we should at least go look at the 3rd suburban, which was just down the road.  It had the same mileage, but $2000 cheaper and 1 year older.  The dealership didn't want us to walk out of there, so they eventually took our original offer AND still delivering it to our door.  

We had to get some financing in order and the vehicle still needed to be cleaned (they didn't have time to clean it before they showed it to us).  But it showed up at our door about a week later.  It's new to us, but not a new vehicle.  It's a 2012 with 85,000 miles on it.  That's pretty much what we get - something about 7 years old with between 50 and 100k miles on it.  Hopefully it will last for a while.  This is the first time we've ever had to get a loan for a vehicle, which was a new process for us.  But we feel grateful that this is the first time we've ever had to to do that.  

This is also the first vehicle that has a DVD player.  The kids are pretty excited about that!