Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,

skills, insight and encouragement you need, deliver rich and meaningful life now while building

a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. My name is Joshua. I am your

fellow financial freedom fighter working with you as you create and build

your plan for financial freedom. Today I want to tackle the subject of buying a car,

specifically buying a used car.

On yesterday's show, I engaged in a form of satire, perhaps a bit of hyperbole,

I created a show that I hope struck at your emotions.

My intent was to trigger you into thinking, just through the use of

something that I hoped would be entertaining and provocative and yet demonstrate

some useful tactics and techniques.

But today I want to be a little bit more analytical

and a little bit more of a teacher

build not with hyperbole, but with just systematic thinking.

Sarah and the Facebook group wrote in and asks

Tips for buying a used car. I'm a graduate student.

Luckily I've been able to work and study so I have no loans and debts or debts. However I don't own a car. I'm planning to move

once I graduate and I might need to purchase a car then. I want to get a used car but I don't

want to buy something that ends up falling apart shortly afterwards. I plan to pay in cash. I know this is a

broad question but do you have some input what should I keep in mind are

good places or websites for me to look at for cars or good resources I should check out etc.

That question came in from Sarah and I'll also reference another question that came in in the

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