It's a great feeling when a plan works out as planned, so congrats. I'm curious to what the title issues are.
Thanks.
Well first off the ad lack detail, and had very few pictures which I could not see much in them, and there was no VIN. It was like pulling teeth to get VIN from PO and communication was spotty (poor). I had just run into similar seller out LV, NV. that is trying to pass of a very high mileage as low. Anyway, after weeks just to get to this point I set up a inspection. With the drive being 260 round trip I asked my son to help convoy it back. I pulled a car fax at this time, something I generally do after the deal is cut. But with distance, poor communication & reluctance to give VIN I thought I'd spend the extra now. I found a mileage roll back notation and entry. Then just as I was getting on the HWY to head up the mountain to inspect & buy, I get a follow-up answer to my question on clean title in hand. PO said it's a certificate of title, and can't find title. I'm not sure what is the deal so I asked for text with picture of it, as I turn around and call off the trip.
So on inspecting the title I find it has one name listed as owner and not the seller whom I'm dealing with. That's not the bad part. The seller has singed and owner signature is on it too but no notary. Additionally I suspect by the way it's signed it is forgery, and it was. Additionally It's from a state that issues titles with liens noted on it, and it has a lien. Third unlike Colorado the issuing state requires the signature be notarized which it was not, nor could it now be do too two signature (forgery).
Ok at this point who wouldn't walk from this deal. Harboring the VIN, out of state title, no notary, forgery, mileage roll back alert, poor communication and long distance transaction dealing with two states.
Well at this point the deal was good enough I took time too VET the info. First mileage roll back didn't look right, so I tracked down the Dealer and found they made a mistake. Which I requested they submitted to car fax the correction, they did.
Second I deducted they forgery was not criminal, I was technically correct all thought it was done without permission and made title useless.
Third I spoke with the various state departments to learn what would have to be done to correct and transfer title.
Each State warned me do not do the deal with the lien on the title. That these deals go bad most of the time, and almost never go through the first time even when they don't go bad.
I came up with a game plan and gave seller specific instruction on what would need to be done, how and with whom. Basic two plans one called for getting lien remove, which I suspected wouldn't happen and it did not. They other with me payoff the lien, which I've done.
Without getting into the personal affairs of the seller & owner both told me don't give the other money. But in the end I got them both to agree each gets some money, and I'm working with each independently. This finally got things moving.
The steps completed:
Get duplicate title clean of signatures.
Get all parties to agree on procedure that be will followed, in writing documenting everything.
Inspect vehicle, title & registration and take possession of all with singed agreement from seller.
Give seller deposit.
Getting title, bill of sale, vehicle power of attorney and specific performance agreement signed & notarized by owner (named on title).
Pay off lien at bank giving specific instruction for whom & how release of lien letter shall be delivered.
Next steps:
Waiting on release of lien letter to be received from bank by all parties.
Make finally payment to seller & owner.
Transfer title.
I'm contemplating my options on how to title now.
Care to detail how you detail with specific products? Pun intended.
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Yeah the Toyota cv re boot kit has two different types of boot materials. The inner boot is a thick heavy rubber composite, and the outer boot is a thinner plasticized composite, the two are very different.
Interesting.
