Pretty close. I ended up deciding that I'd go up to $10k if a car it all of my needs/wants. I knew I'd have to travel or have one shipped for any one I hid, so had to include that in my cost.were you able to stay in your budget? what year and how many miles?
This one is a 2011 4dr, 6MT, sunroof/navy with 96000 miles for $8900. After shipping from PA to OR it was just over my 10k budget, but still a great deal I felt like. It's bone stock, perfectly clean title, one owner and meticulously maintained with all major maintenance stuff (tires, all brakes/rotors, carbon cleaning, spark plugs etc) done within the last ~15k miles and fresh fluid changes and detail. Awesome owner from what I can tell, and I feel great about it.
Now I gotta figure out what I wanna do with it once it arrives.