I've never sold a car in Texas.....What needs to be done? Do I need to have the ***le notarized? or just sign it over to the new owner on the back of the ***le? thanks for the help
Just Sign er over The new owner will have to get some other paperwork to transfer it. and your suppose to sign that to, but typically i don't worry about that let the buyer do it
You have to sign it over and sign a certificate of ***le transfer. They can be found at any tax office. if the buyer does not have one he will be contacting you again in a few weeks when he tries to register.(pain in the neck) Also, get a bill of sale. The amount does not matter, but you want to have it in case the new owner wraps it around a tree and hurts somebody. That way the insurance company doesn't come after you. In a past life I was an insurance adjuster and i've seen it happen. Texas is one of the easier states to sell in. You need: 1. ***le 2. ***le Transfer Certificate 3. Bill of Sale 4. Done.
SIGN IT OVER ,MAKE SURE THE BUYERS NAME AND DATE ARE FILLED IN, DETACH THE BOTTOM SECTION IF IT IS STILL ATTACHED AND SEND IT IN WITH THE $5.00 .THAT WILL MAKE YOU NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING JUST IN CASE YOUR BUYER DOES NOT REGISTER IT FOR AWHILE.Also keep your plates, technically they are yours and do not go with the car.There has been a rash of problems with people who buy the car with OPEN ***le and previous owner is responsible unless you can prove the date and to whom it was sold.You can verify this with the DMV. The days of signing a open ***le and trusting the guy is headed to the courthouse to change it right away is pretty much over. If you keep the plates he has no choice. I had a vehicle traced back to me two years after i sold, he never changed the ***le.
I would go to a Notary and let them take care of the paper work just to protect yourself. It's all about LIABILITY.........P.Y.A..........
Also, now you can keep the plates on any car you sell. this forces the new buyer to register the car as soon as possible.
Maybe it has changed but when I was lat there you needed a bill of sale OR the ***le transfer application signed by the seller, not both.
I just bought and registered a 62 caddy convertible. You will need the ***le signed by the seller and buyer and dated. The buyer (or seller) needs to provide the ***le transfer form as both of you need to sign it, date it and whomever can fill in the amount they paid for the car on that form. They no longer accept a hand written or typed bill of sale. They didn't even want to look at the one I had. Just the ***le transfer form. Lucky for me the buyer was here in Austin so I had to go back and have him sign it. you can DL the form here... http://www.txdot.gov/txdoteforms/Ge...eportError.jsp&configFile=WFServletConfig.xml Also print out and send in the notice of ***le transfer, do it in the first 30 days...this take any liability off of you if something happens to the car. https://vision21.txdmv.gov/Vehicle/MainTransferNotification.aspx?Val=Print I also usually photocopy or take a photo of the buyer/seller drivers license.
Thanks for that, it must be a change since I lived there on the bill of sale thing. I bought a 62 Sunliner that had changed hands, who knows how may times, without the ***le ever having been transferred. It was an old ***le and was signed on the back but also needed to be signed on the front. It was a mess. The old guy who signed it off must have been 100, pretty shakey, and no doubt p***ed on by now. So what do you do? Well it isn't hard to be "creative" when you have to. I don't like doing that sort of thing but I was between a rock and a hard place on that one, live and learn. Nowdays, a car without a ***le in the sellers name is a car without a ***le to me. Oh, and I got several of those transfer forms when I lived in Texas and just kept them with me in case I bought a car somewhere.
Don't think that only individuals skip the ***le transfer. I traded in an OT vehicle to one of the larger dealers in Houston, and got dunned for a parking ticket on it two years later. They never changed the plates or the ***le.
I got a call from HPD one day telling me to come down and pick up my motorcycle. ( I did have a motorcycle stolen a couple days before). I went down to the impound and was surprised to see an older bike I traded to a dealer a few years before. Except now it was restored. I was told it was recovered in a drug raid and has been released. I loaded it into my truck, applied for a lost ***le and sold it again!
That has always been true in M***achusetts, so giving an open ***le is no problem. In fact I always request the ***le be left open if I am buying a car for resale or to part out.
Texas requires no notary on the transfer so its a easy sell. All the rest is listed above and if the buyer just mails you the Texas Transfer sheet for you to sign it makes it that much more easy to do.
I've got a similar issue with a TX ***le from '68 which requires notarization by (I'm ***uming?) seller (previous owner). There's a spot for it anyways, can I just ignore it? I want to ***le the car in my name in NC, does this change anything?
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