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How many payments can you miss before your car is repossessed?

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creditscoreEE
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How many payments can you miss before your car is repossessed?

How many payments can you miss before your car is repossessed? my aunt made the mistake of putting her name on her daughters car she has missed 3 payments. Is there anything my aunt can do? also, her daughter wont answer her calls or even talk to her.

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Oyiwaa
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Re: How many payments can you miss before your car is repossessed?

Your aunt will not want that car repossessed: after 3 missed payments, the account will likely go into charge-off, and then repossession shortly after.  Some auto finance companies may even begin the process that soon.

 

Since your aunt is a signatory on the note, she can call the company and seek some form of solution - since she is technically partially responsible for the payment. 

 

The possible solutions / options are:

 

-- surrender the car (and be indebted for the remainder of the loan)

-- re-arrange for longer term (more months to pay) and lower payments

 

The choice of the method also depends on the loan balance - how many more months/years does she have to pay?

 

all the best - Oy

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creditscoreEE
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Re: How many payments can you miss before your car is repossessed?

Thanks for the info I will inform her the process.
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