If you live in south Florida and you're thinking of buying a new or used car, there are a couple of things you should do before you go shopping for your next vehicle.
We are often asked by Floridians in the southern part of the state why they shouldn't just jump in their current car and drive out to I-95 to shop for a car instead of visiting an online web site to apply for an auto loan. This answer to this question really depends on your credit history and your FICO score.
If you have a credit score over 640 or more and a fairly extensive credit history, you should be able to purchase a vehicle with a traditional prime or near-prime auto loan. But even if this is the case, you should still do some research on the internet.
If you have less than perfect credit, however, you may want to hold off driving around Fort Lauderdale (or Miami, Hollywood, Boca Raton, Jupiter, or anywhere else in the Sunshine State). Here's why: the auto loans for any credit south Florida buying process is much different. And just as this buying process is different, so is the dealer that can help you with a
bad credit car lease.
The fact is that many dealers choose not to deal with subprime lenders. These kinds of auto loans for any credit south Florida require more effort than regular loans because dealers are responsible for more documentation and for making sure that the documentation is correct as well as verifiable. If anything goes wrong in the documentation process, the contract is sent back to the dealer and the dealer holds the contract for the car. This means the dealer must collect the monthly payments from the customer and most dealers do not want to do this.
As an auto loans for any credit south Florida buyer, it's important to realize that just because a dealer happens to sell cars near a major freeway, or even Highway 91, this does not mean that dealer has the right kind of cars. A dealer's new and used car inventory has to be adjusted for subprime lending. Cars in inventory have to meet lender guidelines in terms of mileage and year. Used cars also need to be purchased at or below NADA or Kelley wholesale, since subprime lenders base their how much they will finance on these figures. New cars also have to be within a certain price range, since bad credit lenders are very strict about keeping your car payment within a budget range. Without the correct inventory, the dealer can't sell any of the cars on the lot to subprime customers.
In addition to documentation and inventory issues, there is the large number of subprime lenders as well as the complexity involved with understanding the varying programs that they offer. Most lenders that offer auto loans for any credit south Florida have at least five �tiered� programs and each program can have its own set of requirements. Without a knowledgeable special finance department, keeping track of the lenders and programs is impossible.
The solution to the problem of finding auto loans for any credit south Florida is to go online. The best online sites have helped thousands of people in the Sunshine State with bad, blemished, bruised and tarnished credit buy cars and reestablish their credit at the same time. The best of these sites also has a network of affiliate dealers that specialize in auto loans for any credit south Florida and throughout the rest of the U.S.