Originally Posted by
NormDeplume
Our car is a 12-year-old Hyundai sedan. It's small, inexpensive to operate and reliable when we need it. I don't know what the resale value of it is, but probably WAY under your 7k budget. The only thing we wish we had is a hitch receiver, so we could easily mount a proper bike rack when the whole family wants to go somewhere far away from home to ride.
You can have one put on at U-haul. I had to move my wife's crap from NC to OK after her divorce from her first husband, and the minivan we had at the time didn't have a hitch. So got the hitch, rented a trailer, and overheated in Atlanta coming back, as I was not going to tackle those hills between Knoxville TN and Ashville NC.
FWIW, that happened years before I considered cycling as a form of transportation and made the move to living Car Light.