When you buy a car, you might start thinking about adding mods to make it look good (body kits, carbon fiber accents), adding a sport exhaust to make it sound good, doing a chip tuning to make it faster, etc to increase the value of the car. Wrong thinking! What is my take on mods? I am against it. Unless you are building a project car for car shows or sport competitions, mods are useless and do not increase the value of the car at all. I prefer to buy a trim I like from the factory: 1. It keeps its value really well. 2. Lots of engineers spent hours making it perfect, so they can provide a warranty on their product. The Chevrolet Camaro I purchased comes with an amazing 2SS package. There is no need to mod it to make it cooler than the ZL1. I will never recoup the invested money. So if you are looking for a car, spend some time researching trims. Read forums, see which ones are rarer, which ones more desirable amongst community, and which ones people desire more. There is also no need to go for the top trim. For example, Hellcats in Dodge Charger/Challenger are expensive. Instead, I always preferred a trim below the top, like Scat Pack, Daytona, or SRT. They are great values, amazing cars to own and drive, and they keep their value really well. I also recommend ordering a window sticker. It shows the original build sheet for the car (useless for Teslas, by the way). The same cars with the same trim might have vastly different prices (especially true for Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, and other premium cars). When I was hunting for a GLE for my wife, there were cars with a $20,000 price difference when they were new. This, my friends, increases the value of your car. The Camaro I recently purchased with a theft recovery damage comes with a 2SS package, but by running the window sticker, I found that it had some tasty mods from the factory. It added the Redline Edition package, which is worth $2,345 from the factory, Magnetic Ride Control for $1,695 (which makes the quality of the ride amazing), Performance Dual Exhaust for $895, 8-speed transmission with a oil cooler and remote vehicle starter $1,495, and other tasteful mods totaling $1,030. This results in a car with over $8,000 in additional options compared to the regular 2SS package. This is an advantage when marketing your car for sale and will become a competitive edge among similar cars with similar trims.

Let me know if you found the course helpful. What was your biggest takeaway? Is there anything else I missed?

Just eager to know where people are from. I live in Sedona, AZ