Run your vehicle in the Auto Trader. In the past, AT used to come out to your house to take photos of the vehicle. That’s when the AT was available at most convenience stores for 75 cents.
Now, you can download your own photos to autotrader.com and screen inquiries from there. spdrun is right. Your buyers will come to your house. They will leave their OWN vehicle parked out front (and possibly other adult family members with kids waiting there) while one of the buyers takes it for a test drive with or without the owner. It’s not very likely that they are going to take off with your vehicle under these circumstances, even if the owner does not accompany them. ESPecially, if the vehicle they leave parked in front of your house is more valuable than the one you’re advertising, lol.
Serious buyers will ask you the mileage and options (if not all listed in your ad) by phone or e-mail and then run a private-party blue book valuation online at kbb.com before visiting to test-drive and inspect your vehicle. If a buyer wishes to make an appointment that day or for a later time to take your vehicle to their mechanic before deciding whether to buy it, you, as a seller, should allow this, within reason (their mechanic is a LOCAL shop, they leave the vehicle they came in with you and they return your vehicle within ~3 hours). If a buyer has a friend or relative who is a “mechanic” but doesn’t have a shop, you should make your vehicle available for them to jack up (if they wish to) and inspect on your premises.
If a lender or leaseholder has your title, you will have to do the actual selling transaction at their nearest office.
I have bought and sold several vehicles this way in the past (sold vehicles I had the title to but bought several where the PP had a lien). Whether one is the buyer or seller, it is w-a-a-a-a-y better for all parties to buy and sell vehicles yourself and create your own bill of sale than to deal with stealerships, who often won’t sell a used vehicle unless they can make at least $3K over PP value in the transaction (preferably $5-$8K on a $10-$15K sale) after stiffing the previous owner royally in a “trade-in.”
As we all know, the vast majority of trade-ins for new vehicles are not held by the stealership but immediately farmed out to other used-car dealers. That’s part of the reason why a new-car stealership doesn’t offer much for a trade in, and, if they do, they charge more for the new vehicle. There’s no free lunch.
