Polk County, FL
In Ridgewood Lakes, a car that's done can be gone this week, with cash paid to you and no towing bill.
The golf course at the middle of Ridgewood Lakes opened in 1994 as Ridgewood Lakes Golf Club. Ted McAnlis, who learned course design working for George and Tom Fazio, laid out the 7,409-yard, par 72 track, which now runs under the name White Heron Golf Club at 200 Eagle Ridge Drive. Plenty of locals still call it by the old name. The neighborhoods around it grew up with the course through the mid-1990s and after, which means a good share of the homes here are pushing thirty years old, and so are some of the cars that have been sitting beside them.
If you have a vehicle in that category, or a newer one that got totaled and the insurance payout left you holding the wreck, we'll make an offer on it. Nothing needs to be fixed, cleaned out or jump-started before we arrive. Take your personal things out of the glove box and trunk, pull the SunPass transponder off the windshield, and that is about all the prep there is. People here also call about cars that went underwater in a heavy storm, since low spots near the lakes can hold water. A flooded car is still worth something to us, so don't let it sit and corrode further.
Ridgewood Lakes residents can sell us cars, trucks, vans and SUVs that are dead, dented, flooded or just not worth repairing, with free pickup.
A 1990s sedan with a faded roof and 250,000 miles has value to a recycler in steel, aluminum and parts. Don't assume it's worthless because a dealer laughed at it. Call and let us put a number on it.
If an insurer declared the car a total loss and you kept it, you may have a salvage title. We buy salvage-titled vehicles too. Have the paperwork nearby when you call so we can quote it correctly. The same goes for a car that was never reported to insurance at all, like one that clipped a light pole on the way home and has been parked ever since. Front-end damage, airbags deployed, frame bent: describe it and we price it.
These are residential streets near a golf course, not an industrial lot. The driver parks so traffic can get around, keeps the winch cable off the lawn, and is out of there in well under an hour in most cases.
Payment is made at the vehicle, in cash, once the title is signed over. We don't take a towing fee, a paperwork fee or any other deduction out of it. Remove the license plate before the driver leaves, since in Florida the plate stays with you, not the car.
Tell us the year, make, model and condition. Most Ridgewood Lakes quotes take under five minutes.
