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We'll be adding more and more great articles and reports to this site. So join us today and make sure to check out our other Great Guy Life sites. Here is a sample from a free report that we wrote to help our guys avoid buying a refurbished car that survived hurricane Katrina.

An estimated 600,000 cars were affected between 2005’s hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Plenty of them were obviously totaled after breaking the fall of trees or being mercilessly tumbled around by wind and surge. Some ended up so crumpled that the basic vehicle type—never mind make and model—could not be determined. But even more were submerged past the doorsills, the point at which they should be considered totaled, and they’re lurking out there where someone like you might unsuspectingly buy one.

Well, maybe not someone like you, since you’re reading this report and therefore educating yourself to some degree about what to look for so that you don’t end up signing papers for one of these flood-duds. Most of it is common sense, but there are some specific things you should look for.

Just because you aren’t doing your car-shopping in the Gulf states doesn’t mean you won’t encounter some of these no-goodnik cars. In fact, most of the creeps selling them have taken them far afield—Los Angeles, even—in hopes of finding less suspicious buyers. The other advantage for the vehicular hoodlums is that some states don’t require flood-damage information to appear on a car’s title. And if they can’t get around it like that, well, if there’s a will to acquire a bogus title then there’s a way. Even a dealer can innocently peddle a storm casualty, or the salesman you work with may in fact not be privy to the fraud, so use the same level of scrutiny in every case.

If the seller discloses the flood damage, then things are probably on the up-and-up, unless, of course, some fiction has been worked into the part about the degree of damage. Caveat emptor (buyer beware) is the way to go: assume the damage was worse than the seller tells you (no apology is necessary). And if you just want the car for its parts rather than the sum of them, then go for it—but still use caution, and always check that the VIN on the car matches the VIN on the title.