Bump. (tl;dr - Brother booked Turo rental and it got repo'd while on trip.)
Brother had a Turo in Phoenix yesterday. His motorhome is parked north of the city a ways out to the north. Just over an hour. He's been using Turo from the airport as they fly down there throughout the winter. Was going good until yesterday.
They got there, got the car from the big parkade that they use for Turo/rentals and headed out to the motorhome. Got there and got set up and needed some groceries. They headed into town (him, wife, kid) and stopped at a store.
They get their groceries and come back out. Car is gone. Brother is sure this is where he parked it but took the fob out of his pocket and pressed the alarm to see if something would honk. Nothing. Car is for sure gone. He thinks it's been stolen. Just then, a random guy pulls up next to him and asks if he was looking for a Jeep. Brother says yes. Guy asks if it was his. Brother says no, it was a Turo rental. Guy says, oh our local tow truck driver just pulled up, hooked on and drove away with it. Looks like it got repo'd.
Brother, wife, kid and all groceries go back into the store to the customer service till and ask if there is a taxi around to get them back out to the motorhome. No taxi's in this small town. But the woman at the till did mention that the local tow driver spends most of his time going around looking for cars that need repo'd.
So now they are stuck at this store until a taxi from the city can come and get them. Brother messages the owner of the car thru Turo and the owner is flipping out saying there is no reason for the car to be repo'd. The cops get involved by the owner because the owner is saying the local tow driver stole the car.
But wait it gets better. Brothers motorhome keys, kids car seat and blankets are in the now repo'd car. lol, god damn.
The cops end up giving the impound lot phone number to my brother about three hours after this whole saga began. But now it's late evening and the yard is closed. He can't get his stuff out of the car.
They end up in the taxi after waiting at the store this whole time. Had to wait until 9am this morning to get the impound lot on the phone. They confirmed that it is in fact up for repo due to delinquent payments.
Current situation is the impound lot is letting my brother get his stuff out of the car right now. Turo refunded my brother all his money he paid for the trip. That went smoothly. The owner is trying to send money to my brother so he can get the car out of the impound but since my brother got the refund already, he told him good luck and moved on. Now he's getting a ride back to Phoenix to get a rental later today.
Looking around
Wondering what became
Of what I once knew