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AAA has been available for a long time to help stranded motorists. However, vehicle assistance is not the only thing they offer. We are going to take a look at some of the benefits you may not yet know about; it may help you decide that the AAA membership is right for you.

1. Bail bonding: a little known fact, AAA in certain states can actually help you if you get into this kind of trouble with traffic violations.  In addition to covering bail bonds to a set amount (typically five grand), they can offer monetary certificates for fines.

2. Money management: another little known fact, AAA can help you manage your money, through such things as IRAs, credit cards, and even personal loans.

So you got your car cleaned and in a high traffic area, there is one more thing that you should do before you put your car on the market for sale – make sure that a mechanic checks it out.  You will want to replace the oil and all of the fluids as well as clean the radiator and put in new anti-freeze as well as make sure that the brake fluid is clean.  You will also want to change the transmission fluid as well.

The reason for this is because you will be able to promote the fact that the driver will not have to do that much work on it because it is already done for them.  You also want to ensure that the tires and the brakes are in very good condition, as they can definitely impact how much money you get for your car.

Finally, set the price – you want to go by the Kelley Blue Book price, as that is going to show you exactly how much your car is worth so you can price accordingly.

Now that we have talked a little bit about the detailing of your car and making sure that your car looks good on the inside and out is very important but so is where you place the car.  When you are trying to sell a car, you want to make sure that people actually know about it.

What this means is that you need to store the used car in a very, very high traffic area so that way, you can actually have people see the car and check it out.  Whenever people see a used car for sale, most of the time they will stop in order to check it out, even if they did not plan to.

You also want to make sure that you put a phone number that you answer.  People do not like to leave messages, they like a live person, so make sure that you are answering your phone.  More in the next blog!

Whenever you are selling a car, it can be a difficult task.  In this day and age, people are looking for the very best deal that they can get and face it, if you are pricing your car high, you might not get any bites.  That is why we designed this guide on how to not just promote your used car but how to sell it!

One thing that you need to take seriously is the look and feel of the car.  You want it to look really good, so taking it to a professional detailer would be a good idea.  That way, you are going to get a return on your investment.  They will clean the engine, underneath and all of the door jams.

In the next blog, we will talk about the placement of the car and how that can help you.

Parking tickets are something that a lot of people get, especially if they live in a big city.  I know that Boston is one place that does not have a whole lot of parking and people that live there, definitely do get a lot of parking tickets.  That brings up the point; do parking tickets actually affect your car insurance premium?

Well, the answer to that is a little tricky.  Normally, parking tickets do not get reported to the insurance companies, so most of the time, they do not raise your car insurance premium.  However, if you completely ignore the parking tickets and do not pay them, they could certainly affect your car insurance premium in the long run.

You always want to make sure that you pay any tickets that you get on time, as that way, you can make sure that you do not get into any trouble.

Now that we have touched on a couple tickets, let’s move onto speeding tickets.  By far, these are the ones that will increase your car insurance premium the most.  To be quite frank, most of the time, when you are caught speeding, unless the cop is a stickler for the rules, they are going to write you up for only going five over, no matter what you were going over.

I know that personally, I have been caught going twenty over the speed limit and he wrote me up for five and my car insurance premium still rose up.  It can go up over a hundred dollars extra a month if you are not careful.

Now, for those of you that live in a big city, we are going to talk about parking tickets next, so make sure that you stay tuned!