27, Oct 2020
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Our Referral Reward program at Country Auto in Jerome and Twin Falls is huge. It's one of the biggest I know about -- I've never heard of anybody in our area doing as much as we do. Country Auto management will forgive the balance of the customer's loan who refers 10 new, purchasing
24, Oct 2020
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Having good credit just helps you do a lot in life.
From a young age, I was very fortunate to have a dad who taught me the importance of credit.
I grew up on a farm. I raised pigs and I had saved money to put wheels and tires on my truck for the first time. And my dad wouldn’t allow me
21, Oct 2020
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We started leasing vehicle out of our Jerome location about four years ago.
We partner up with our local bank -- Farmer's National Bank. They allow us to buy a little nicer, higher dollar car than we normally do.
So if someone qualifies for our lease program -- which requires a $1,500
19, Oct 2020
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Because Country Auto in Jerome and Twin Falls is a buy-here pay-here dealership, there really isn’t a best time to buy a car like there are with newer car dealerships who want to move inventory to make room for the newest models.
We don't follow the trends that some of the new
16, Oct 2020
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Country Auto in Jerome and Twin Falls have an in-house scoring system that's our own; it has 13 questions on it so that we can get an answer for a credit score. But that’s just a very small portion of all the factors we use to determine how to finance someone for a vehicle.
Depending
13, Oct 2020
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Generally speaking, you must have better credit in order to get “outside financing” which is basically a car loan from a dealership that works with traditional banks.
“In-house” financing is when the dealership – usually a buy-here pay-here dealership like Country
11, Oct 2020
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Nobody likes spending their entire day buying a car. At Country Auto, we have options to make the process go faster.
The first thing someone can do is start the process online. Either jump on our website and do an application or visit this really cool thing we just started where anyone can text
8, Oct 2020
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Whenever we get a vehicle – whether from an auction or a trade-in – we first have one of our technicians inspect the car with a 79-point inspection.
They go through the car to check for any leaks, pull the tires, check brakes. They also check things that will be covered by our
6, Oct 2020
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There are people who think buy-here pay-here dealerships make money off selling cars and repossessing them. That's simply not true.
We lose money on most repos not only because of the time it takes to get the vehicle back, and the money it takes to pay the repo company to go to the car, get