[79CamaroDiva]

I'm selling the Grand Cherokee that I had posted about here as well as my Cherokee for some money for car payments for the other cars. I brought it up the other night when I was at my cousins and she wants my cherokee and her mom (my aunt) wants the grand cherokee as a first car for her son who just turned 17 (also obviously my cousin). Neither of them can pay in full, and I'm not worried about my older cousin and the cherokee because although she's not great with money, i know she doesn't like owing anyone money, least of all me.

on the other hand, my aunt is in a very tough financial situation, and had to take on a part time job which she's not allowed to technically have, so its under the table. They can barely get their bills paid, and she has borrowed money from my parents and my grandmother and not paid it back when she said she would, if at all.

That's where the tough part comes in. I'm only asking $2000 for the Grand Cherokee, but she called me today and said she could only pay $100 a month, more some months depending on the commission she gets from this job she's got. That would mean it would be almost 2 years before its paid for, and as I said, she has a bad habit of coming up with "oh, next month" type excuses.

It's easy enough to say "well then just don't sell it to her" except she gave me a place to live when I needed one last year for a month and a half completely rent free. Didn't even ask for money for groceries, even though I offered, and I know the financial situation they're all in. She said she couldn't even think about asking me for money because she's my aunt and godmother and that's her "job" so to speak, is take care of me when need be, no matter how old I am.

So what I'm thinking of saying is that I will accept $100 from her a month, but I also want her son, who the car is for, to get a job, and also pay $100/month. Currently I don't think he has a job, and I know he just graduated high school, and he's a member of his towns volunteer fire dept. As good as it is that he wants to get involved with volunteer work, I think he needs to know that mommy isn't always going to buy things for him, and volunteering doesn't pay the bills. Even if he does go to college (i'm not sure what the plan is as of now) he should be able to hold down a part time job too.

This side of my family I'm very close with, and my cousins and I are much more like siblings than cousins, so I may be able to say that and get through to him. Anybody have any other ideas?