Our founder and lead broker, AJ Lydon, got his start the humble way. As a teenager, his grandfather taught him how to shop for a car — how to read a listing, meet the seller, look under the hood, and negotiate a fair deal. He was hooked. In college, a friend asked him to track down a used Chrysler; AJ scoured the newspaper and a new website called Craigslist, looked at ten cars, and found the perfect one. Word spread fast. Soon he was helping classmates, friends, and family find vehicles, flipping cars on the side, and running a makeshift lot out of his driveway on Glendale Avenue.
Interested in one day owning a legitimate lot of his own, he went to work for one of the largest Toyota dealerships in the state. He sold fifteen cars his first month and rose quickly — eventually to floor manager at the number-one Toyota store in Arizona, closing five to ten deals a day and training the rest of the floor. But the longer he stayed, the more he saw: trade-ins bought for a fraction of their worth and resold for triple, discounted prices used as bait to lock buyers into marked-up financing, customers signing off blindly on a system built to win at their expense.
Determined to find a better way to serve his clients, AJ left the dealership to forge something new. Taking everything he had learned over the last fifteen years, he crafted a system that would allow his clients to maximize their buying power, minimize the time they spent on the sales process, and end up with the absolute best vehicle possible. Phoenix Car Brokers was built on three principles: Strategize, Maximize, and Deliver. We help you strategically figure out which vehicle makes the most sense for you, maximize your buying power, and deliver it to you directly. Our margins are low, the quality of the vehicles we source is high, and we’re here to improve the way you buy and sell your vehicles.