AN INFLUENCER has learned a financial lesson the hard way — and now she’s coaching other drivers to do everything they can to avoid the same fate.
Most drivers would automatically assume their car had been stolen if it disappeared from their driveway, but one Illinois driver knew better.
“I vividly remember receiving the call that our car got repossessed,” Dolores Renee (@doloresrenee) said on TikTok.
She said her fiancé had borrowed her car the day it vanished, and he was the person who told her the news, according to the post.
“I got a phone call from him and I’m like, what is going on? And he’s like, did you come get the car? I’m like, what do you mean did I come get the car?… Why would I come get the car?” she recalled asking him.
“He’s like, well, the car is not here,” she said.
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The call came in the morning, so Renee was still sleepy she said, and it took her a minute to realize what was happening.
“When it finally clicked in my head what he was saying I was like, oh my god, I knew what happened immediately.”
She called her bank, Wells Fargo, to confirm her fears.
“I got on the phone with Wells Fargo. The first thing they said to me was, ‘Do you still have the car in your possession?’”
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“You know that you’re in hot water when you call the line, and it automatically transfers you to another line, and they say this is an attempt to collect a debt,” she added.
The whole experience was awful, especially because it occurred just a month before she was getting married, she said.
“I just wanted to literally throw up and slide down the wall in slow motion — it was terrible,” she said.
Getting the repossessed car back was not impossible, but it was expensive she said.
“It was so much money to get that car back. We had to pay over $1,000 because that’s how far I was behind plus like $300 bucks to get the car back from storage,” she said.
Now she and her husband have learned how to manage their finances better to avoid these types of issues, she said.
But she hopes other drivers can learn from her mistake and only purchase cars they can afford.
“I just do not recommend people ever go through that, like, if you can avoid it,” she concluded.
Renee also recently asked fans to help her figure out whether she should buy a new car or fix up her old Buick.
The influencer has over 50,000 fans on TikTok and thousands of people liked her post about her vanishing car.
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“Very true about getting a car you can afford…. my first car wasn’t my dream car but it was something I could financially handle,” one person replied.
“TY for being so transparent about this! bf and I are young and have definitely made a few mistakes we’re currently trying to fix, would love advice,” another commented.