Going home for 2 1/2 months and need a car. Any ideas?


I am an expat living in the middle east. I am going home to Ottawa for 2 1/2 months this summer. Does anyone have any ideas about the cheapest way to acquire a car for this period of time? Renting is ...


Going home for 2 1/2 months and need a car. Any ideas?

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pkillorn
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 11:59 pm
 

I am an expat living in the middle east. I am going home to Ottawa for 2 1/2 months this summer. Does anyone have any ideas about the cheapest way to acquire a car for this period of time? Renting is enormously expensive. Avis has a "Mini-lease" available. Has anyone tried it? Can I buy and register a car (with the anticipation of reselling it in the fall) and still maintain my expat status for tax purposes? Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 6:59 pm
 

I've heard of soem services where you actually buy a car (used of course) and then sell it back to the company when you're done with it. A lot of backpackers do that if they want to drive around the country. From what I've heard it works out pretty well, but I don't have any experience with it, or can tell you of a company that specializes in it. Try a google search Smile

Cheers,

Matt

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