Selling Canadian MHome in US with no title
A recently widowed friend of ours has consigned her Foretravel DP to a dealer in Phoenix for sale. We helped her move it down there at the end of last year. Vehicles in Canada, in our province anywa...
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free radical wrote:
Pardon me if Im missing something but
What is the difference between Registration and Title?
Isnt it the same thing?
No, they are not the same thing.
A title is a document proving that you (or the bank, or whomever) owns the vehicle. A registration is a permit to operate the vehicle on the public roads. If you lease a vehicle, you will have the registration, but (I think) the title would be held in the name of the dealer. If you don't drive the vehicle on the public roads at all, it may very well not be registered at all, but you'd still hold a title on it, generally speaking.
In my case, for my motorhome, I have a valid Vermont registration, but do not have a Vermont title because Vermont does not issue titles for vehicles sixteen years old or older. Maine and New Hampshire, at least, have similar policies. (It is possible in Vermont to obtain an "exempt vehicle title" for vehicles over 25 years old if one so desires, but strangely enough there seems to be no way at all to obtain a Vermont title for a vehicle between 15 and 25 years old.)
Very often when buying a vehicle the DMV will issue both at the same time and as part of the same overall transaction.
