That prosper route is a good reccomendation.. I responded to an ad not too long ago on Craigslist for a Marine who needed $1000 to cover some expenses one of which was his car that was repo’d. I referred him to Prosper and let him know that if that didn’t work to contact me again – but he sent me a quick thanks for the Prosper recommendation and a couple question about how to get setup and I haven’t heard from him since! So I think it worked for him..
On Toyota.. how much better can a company do? It seems like everything they do is a win for the company and customers maybe I’m drinking the koolaid..(TM is up like 30%+ in last year). They are firing on all cylinders.. Toyota is just killing it with everything they do, with their FJ(stealing road raged women from Hummer) and their Tundra(owns every other truck in it’s class), Camry(seen the new body style??) and Prius etc etc… Even facing a recession I am still tempted to get back into Toyota stock…
I had an 05 Tacoma that I recently sold.. I used it for 2 years, and sold it for around 15% less than I bought it for NEW… it ended up costing ~$250 a month including sales tax and license to use the truck for 2 years. I wasn’t so fortunate when I sold my Ford a few years earlier, especially because I wasn’t willing to withhold any information about some of it’s expensive or time-bomb quirks!