Title registration rant
I know this is my fault. I am trying to get a title for my fifth that I lost. I can't get ahold of the seller, I bought it out of state, asked the dmv what I should do, this was their response: Subjec...
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doxiemom11 wrote:
We sold a car once, signed over the title to the purchaser. Two years later, we were approached by a gentleman we had never met that was now the 3rd or 4th purchaser since we had signed over the title. No one had ever transferred it to their own name. We, the original owners had to file for a duplicate title ( we needed the VIN # to do that, luckily we still had some paperwork) and then after we received the duplicate title, we had to sign it over to the current owner. That time we met at the DMV and made sure it was put into his name and not left in our name.
Doesn't your state have a release of liability form? In California if you sell a vehicle you fill out a release of liability form and you file it with DMV. That way if the new owner fails to complete the registration process it doesn't matter to you as the vehicle is out of your name.
