btw....my 2000 I bought in Portland, and I sure do miss the lack of rust in cars there. Brought mine up to alaska 3 years ago, it was great till last fall
I live pretty inland and they dont use salt here.....too expensive to truck here,,,,so they use gravel...but a lot of cars esp older ones...come from anchorage or along that area and they use salt...my current one came from anchorage....and im paying for it now in repairs that get slowed down alot due to rust.
I think the price your looking at is pretty normal for Portland area. M&W used to be high priced, still are i hear, but they only used to sell clean, rust free , low mile 3rd gens.