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Almost no states I have bought and sold cars in requires a notary to do any regular title transfer.
by nicenewtemp84 3y ago
Almost no states I have bought and sold cars in requires a notary to do any regular title transfer.
- slt2021 3y agopls give me a state name, from my experience all state will require either in-person presence of an owner (verified by ID) or a notary who verified the signature of title holder for transfer
- nicenewtemp84 3y agoCalifornia for starters with all 35 million residents. Nevada. Arizona. Oregon. Washington.
- slt2021 3y agobut the seller will have to be present and DMV verifies his ID. You can't just steal a car with a title of somebody's name and transfer toy ourself, without the original owner and his ID present?
- nicenewtemp84 3y agoNo the seller will not have to be present. No ID will have to be shown by anyone ever at any point.
- vel0city 3y agoAdd Texas and New York to the list of states which don't require a notary for a private party vehicle transfer. Between NY, CA, and TX that's like 57M licensed drivers, so quite a few cars.
- mulmen 3y agoIdaho includes a tear-off bill of sale with the title. You just take that in to the court house and request a new title. You might even be able to do that through the mail. https://www.autotrader.com/sell-car/in-ID https://www.autotrader.com/sell-car/in-ID According to https://notary.pandadoc.com/knowledge-center/does-a-bill-of-sale-have-to-be-notarized/ https://notary.pandadoc.com/knowledge-center/does-a-bill-of-... only Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Montana, and West Virginia require a notary on a bill of sale.
- sokoloff 3y agoI’ve bought two used and one new car in NH and sold two used cars there; none of the bills of sale were notarized. I also brought 3 other used cars from out of state into NH, no notary there either.
- tristor 3y agoSame in every state I've lived (7 at this point), all it requires is that the title is signed by the owner (or the signature looks like it was signed by the owner). The DMV /might/ care to look at the signature when they accepted it vs when they transferred it, or they might now. No notary or witness required.
- nicenewtemp84 3y agoIn California I've heard that DMV can not, or will not, question a signature. I bought and sold cars to pay my way through college, during prime craiglist years, and had to 'recreate' countless signatures when forms were missing or required or even when I was lied to by sellers. Sounds reasonable I assume, unless we think there's a database of signatures somewhere in a government office DMV has access to, how in the world would they even be able to question a signature?
- mulmen 3y agoEvery government issued ID I have ever had included my signature, so I assume they compare to that?
- nicenewtemp84 3y agoWhen you buy a car, there is no requirement to provide the ID of the buyer. I suppose DMV could be detectives about it, and lookup old profiles of people on 20 year old titles and somehow match them to registered owners at that time to find their id profile, but no, this isn't done.
- Alupis 3y agoThe same signature you scribbled on that unresponsive, old and abused touchscreen? Are signatures even a good way to validate identity?
- mulmen 3y agoProbably not, I was just answering: > how in the world would they even be able to question a signature?