Title problem, what should I do?
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Ok i did a even trade 2 years ago my camaro for a trans am, after a week of owning the trans am the motor died and I was pretty much just ripped off, So the car sat for years and the title with it.. Now I went to go transfer the title into my name since im ready to get the car running and the state wants to charge me $700 and some change.. I don't even have that much money too my name, if I don't figure something out they are going to keep adding on late fees..
Im at a loss, the lady there told me the only thing I could do was "get the seller to state the date was wrong" pretty much hinting at me just falsely filling out a document stating I traded the car recently, But wouldn't they have to look up the cars vin i traded and see its been registered in someone elses name for a long time?
What should I do?
Im at a loss, the lady there told me the only thing I could do was "get the seller to state the date was wrong" pretty much hinting at me just falsely filling out a document stating I traded the car recently, But wouldn't they have to look up the cars vin i traded and see its been registered in someone elses name for a long time?
What should I do?
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Changing the date will not matter if they submitted a Title Transfer Notification which is in the system permanently. I am going through something similar with my 1998 SS. I have just been getting temp plates until I get the money together.
Basically my situation is the guy bought the car from the previous owner and the owner filed a Title Transfer Notification. Then the guy sold it to me without ever putting it in his name and now there is 2 years of fees stacked up that the car wasn't titled/registered. I attempted to tell the agent when I bought it and the only thing I could do is the same as you, find the previous owner and ask them to come to the tax office and sign a paper saying the date was wrong.
Otherwise I will be forced to pay the $1000+ in fee's which it seems I will as I don't know the previous owner and they probably wouldn't be willing to do that.
Basically my situation is the guy bought the car from the previous owner and the owner filed a Title Transfer Notification. Then the guy sold it to me without ever putting it in his name and now there is 2 years of fees stacked up that the car wasn't titled/registered. I attempted to tell the agent when I bought it and the only thing I could do is the same as you, find the previous owner and ask them to come to the tax office and sign a paper saying the date was wrong.
Otherwise I will be forced to pay the $1000+ in fee's which it seems I will as I don't know the previous owner and they probably wouldn't be willing to do that.
crap I traded a few months ago, and just got this thing running.
BUT he didnt date the title, can I just date it and be good?
To the OP, Im in DFW. I bought a bike a few years back that had been sign by buyers and sellers all on the back. This bike exchanged hands maybe 8 time without being transfered and even accross state lines lol. So you can imagen the fees with that.
So it was cheaper to get a bonded title; or insurance on the title. The bike booked at almost 5k but because I had the title and it was signed to me then it made it cheaper to bond. I ended up paying 320ish(i think) plus whatever the taxes were. Took me a few hours to do, but I did it all on my day off.
Keep us updated, or do you want to sell it for cheap? haha
BUT he didnt date the title, can I just date it and be good?
To the OP, Im in DFW. I bought a bike a few years back that had been sign by buyers and sellers all on the back. This bike exchanged hands maybe 8 time without being transfered and even accross state lines lol. So you can imagen the fees with that.
So it was cheaper to get a bonded title; or insurance on the title. The bike booked at almost 5k but because I had the title and it was signed to me then it made it cheaper to bond. I ended up paying 320ish(i think) plus whatever the taxes were. Took me a few hours to do, but I did it all on my day off.
Keep us updated, or do you want to sell it for cheap? haha
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