For years I pull up at convenience stores to often spend $10 or less. I’m often seeing $50,000 vehicles with $3,000 to $4,000+ of custom rims and tires on them.
And the guys driving them often don’t look like rocket scientists.
I bought a vehicle for just over 1/2 of that when I had a really decent income (my single income exceeded the average household income of the city for 2 people). I sure didn’t have a $50,000 vehicle.
Make me think there’s a “side business” going on like what you describe. A “side business” or two. Or three.
“Make me think there’s a “side business” going on like what you describe.”
I often see a fifty-plus thousand dollar car, or cars, parked in front of a beat-up double wide. I think that just about anybody can buy a car. Chances are they won’t keep it long. A couple of my young renters who work at Walmart got married, then bought two new, though modest, cars. The wife told me, “Oh, my! We were shocked that first month when we had to make the payments.” It was all I could do not to display my surprise. Didn’t they even ask how much the payments were? Apparently, not. They certainly hadn’t added up the two together. BTW, I was renting them a singlewide.