on my way home today I saw a really pristine old lincoln continental with the suicide doors and everything sitting in an old carport. Well nobody occupies the house and the neighbors didnt know who owned the house or car. What can I do about something like this? I would really love to talk to the owner or whoever and try to buy it off of them. Right up the street from me theres the same thing, theres and old dodge pickup (late 40's) sitting in a backyard...only reason I know about it is because my friend lives next door to it. Again, nobody knows about it..so does anyone know how to find out about these? Can I just call the county or something and ask about residents at that adress? Harry.
Probably make sure no one currently owns the property, then I think you have to contact the DMV or something, and they'll say like "If no one moves it in 2 weeks you can take it". Just what I've heard.
Chattanooga is a big enough county to have a web site. Most all counties in SC do. Find the county website. Go to the tax map part of it. Enter the address. You should have the name and mailing address of the owner of the property. Some counties also list cars and trucks....check to see if the vehicles you want are listed under the property owners name. I have done this many times.....and it works. Sadly.........most of the time.....the car is abandoned...by renters and the property owner is afraid to do anything and the car ends up being mashed.....by the shredder........no proof.....no evidence......
yeah, thats what I'm trying to find out about. Its relaly obvious the car hasnt moved in a while, theres a tree laying across the driveway and the car has smal trees growing in front of it. I would love to get my hands on it, as well as that old dodge truck. Theres so many cars I see and nobody knows who they belong to, its kinda wierd. What would I look up as far as finding that site? Look up the county site or something?
couple years ago here someone posted a site or search engine where you type in a license plate number and the name and address of the owner popped up.. it was kind of unnerving but would be useful here.. Paul
The county knows who owns the property and who is responsible for paying the taxes. If "no one ownes it", they will soon.
You are out of luck..online...... http://www.hamiltontn.gov/Register/faqs.htm#1 It says that they do NOT have ***le search.....
Several Hamb members have posted here about going back out to their property to finally pick up the project their dad left them in their will only to find some sticky fingered son of a ***** had stolen off their private property and the general concensus here is the son's of *****es who steal cars off people's property should havt there mutha****in hands cut off! Don't steal that car, it ain't yours.
someone owns the property the car is on. go to the courthouse and find who is paying the taxes. its public information. contact them. if they know nothing about the car, get their permission to retrieve it. ---- I have renthouses and sometimes a car is abandoned. I call the city cops who tell me there is nothing they can do unless its reported stolen. They tell me to call a towtruck. The tow trucks refuse to touch it (if they take it some one may claim its stolen, then the tow operator is in possession of stolen cars.) And the city says I am in violation of code because the junk car is on MY property and I dont have any idea who it belongs to!
Don't plan on stealing, I can't stand thieves, I am interested in buyin' it...never said much bout stealin it
It's not the owner of the property (residence) that is the issue, at least not at first. You need to get the VIN number off the vehicle and take it to your local DMV, Tag Office, or whatever they call it in your state. In Oklahoma you take them to the Tag Office. They issue the license plates and can run what we call here a "42" on the VIN#. That will tell you the last registered owner of the vehicle and if the vehicle has any liens on it. If the vehicle has been setting for a long time the records may not be in the computer system and will have to be checked manually. This takes a couple of weeks. In any case you should have a name and address of the last registered owner. Then you get to track them down. That's when the property owner of the land the vehicle's setting on comes in handy. Like some have said, check with your county tax office. They'll have a listing on who owns the property for county tax purposes. Run the new name you got by the land owner and see if he knows em. Continue on from this point with phone books, internet, etc. If you exhaust all your leads in contacting the owner of the vehicle, and the land owner says it's yours, then get it. Here you just fill out the proper paperwork at the Tag Office and they'll check with each individual state to see if the vehicle has been listed stolen. Once it comes back clean they'll issue a ***le. This stuff varies state to state, but is usually similar. At the very least you should make the above attempts to contact the owner of the car. As noted we've all read enough threads, and been pissed about each one, where someones "thought to be abandoned" car was swiped. Do it right. Of course I'm from Oklahoma. What the hell do I know.
I know exactly what everyone is saying, and I don't want to take anyones car. That's why I'm trying to find the owner, I'm just looking to buy it. I'm very much against people who steal, in fact our 36 plymouth was stolen by being towed out of our driveway
I found an old bench seat 3 speed on the floor mustang once... sat in a parking lot 2 years... when I inquired about it with the cops, they told me what I needed to do, then voila! The next day the car was gone... guess what... here comes the damn cop driving it. It never made it to impound/auction cuz the cops get first pickin'! I figure that stang was rare... I haven't seen another like it.
check your laws about abandon vechicles. some states are pushing to crush them by declairing them abandoned[meaning it can never be registered].so dont get it declaired abanddoned]you will have to find the owner.if the owners dead you will have to find the next of kin.you may have to fork out a couple bucks to get it signed over .good luck
[ QUOTE ] check your laws about abandon vechicles. some states are pushing to crush them by declairing them abandoned[meaning it can never be registered].so dont get it declaired abanddoned]you will have to find the owner.if the owners dead you will have to find the next of kin.you may have to fork out a couple bucks to get it signed over .good luck [/ QUOTE ] Finding the owner IS possible but most people who abandon cars disappear. I have been renting houses since 1984 and have NEVER found ANY of the people who skipped out oweing me money.
So are you saying dont take it to the cops or something? How do I avoid them declairing it abandoned?
If you do what "Dead Elvis" said, you'll be on the right track. Your DMV will tell you what you hafta do to satisfy their requirements as every state has different requirements.
if it is on private property, its NOT abandoned! you will have better luck finding the property owner than finding who the car is registered to, a piece of real estate has to have an owner, he has to pay taxes, its all on record with the county. cars, the registration can lapse, or the car sold many times over, and the ***le never updated, dead end. fwiw, your money would probably be better spent on a recently driven continental, there is just too much electrical stuff and such on them to go to hell and corrode etc. while sitting unused, a car that is driven will most likely have more operational systems, this is especially true for 60's continentals. you should be able to find a VERY cherry driver for a few grand. these cars can be real bargains. has it occured to you to slip a note in the mailbox or under the front door of the houses?
It has, but I've done that before and they never got back to me. I'll probably jsut try to see who is at this adress.
It's already been said, but the first thing is to hunt down the owner/previous owner of the car. Also, you can try going to the utility company(city hall) and find out who lived at the address where the car is located. Maybe they happen to live nearby. Here where I work, we can tag abandoned vehicle on private property. The owner has 30 days to move the vehicle, or it is towed. JP
[ QUOTE ] someone owns the property the car is on. go to the courthouse and find who is paying the taxes. its public information. contact them. if they know nothing about the car, get their permission to retrieve it. ---- I have renthouses and sometimes a car is abandoned. I call the city cops who tell me there is nothing they can do unless its reported stolen. They tell me to call a towtruck. The tow trucks refuse to touch it (if they take it some one may claim its stolen, then the tow operator is in possession of stolen cars.) And the city says I am in violation of code because the junk car is on MY property and I dont have any idea who it belongs to! [/ QUOTE ] I've had to deal with abandon vehicles on property I own/manage before and here's how it works in California. First I charge the legal owner a storage fee for having the car on my property. Since the legal owner now owes me money, I now have a valid lien on the car. I contact a "Lien Sale" company and they file the necessary paperwork with the DMV. If the legal owner doesn't respond to the notices from the DMV after a certain amount of time, the DMV then issues a ***le to me making me the legal owner of the car. Then I can do what ever I want with it. I could file all the paperwork myself but it's worth the fee that the lien sale company charges so I'm sure everything is done correctly. Sadly I only seem to get real POSes this way so I just junk them.
[ QUOTE ] So are you saying dont take it to the cops or something? How do I avoid them declairing it abandoned? [/ QUOTE ] The cops can't declare it aboandoned. That's usually a court ruling. In my county, you have to go through a prothonotary. You need evidence that the vehicle is indeed abandoned, and that you've already made every reasonable attempt to contact the owner, including running a public ad in the newspaper. You need to prove that there are also no other leins against the vehicle, which there very well may be. Start off by doing what DeadElvis sez. --Matt
Go to the town hall with the address - they can tell you who owns the property and maybe give you an address where the property tax bills are sent.
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