12/27/2023
This is my 1999 Isuzu Amigo soft top. It’s a rare historic vehicle. It’s typically used as a rental. Hard to believe, huh? It’s in rough shape thanks to a rental gone wrong by people I thought were friends. I’m still heart broken by the damage they caused to it. It’s cost thousands to repair and I’m not even close to finished.
Yes, it’s being handled in court as well. It’s just heartbreaking. I rented this vehicle out because it was unique and I wanted others to be able to enjoy it. It wasn’t something you saw every day. When I bought it, it was a be**er. I made payments on it from a buy here, pay here. I worked my ass off to make those payments too.
I worked hard to get it into a nice, rentable condition. It had a touchscreen radio with Bluetooth, Apple car play, Android auto, an upgraded sound system, redone LED headlights, rear taillight guards, motor work, exhaust work, new carpet, and then little things like seat covers, custom red foot petals, red floor mats, theme matching cup holder interiors, extra cup holders (that also had theme matching cup holder interiors), etc.
I had spent SO MUCH money on this vehicle, besides just the payments. Then for people who called themselves my “friends” to absolutely destroy this vehicle and leave it with what my mechanic called “irreparable damage”… The damage is just at just a magnitude that he (and other mechanics) cannot even put a price tag on it…
The situation is so hurtful and upsetting… Who does this to someone? Who finds this acceptable to do to someone else’s property?
Will this stop me from renting my vehicles out again? No. It won’t. But I will do things very differently from this point on. One person has definitely made it much more difficult for everyone else…
Under Reconstruction ©️ Jennifer Mohr