Now it gets sticky

[cjsmith]

State Farm offered me $1725 for the vehicle...

(this seems low to me, but wait, here comes the fun bit)

... if I can come up with a title. I've never had a title to this car. When I bought it I had a loan. By the time my loan was paid off, my bank had been purchased something like four times, I had moved at least twice, and I guess whatever's supposed to happen just didn't happen.

The DMV will accept a notarized letter on the lienholder's letterhead, which letterhead of course no longer exists. I MAY be able to get whichever bank purchased everybody else to write such a letter with a note saying they're the ones who ate my old bank. Maybe. If I can find the old loan information anyway. The newest of it should be thirteen years old.

(Pssst. This is why I don't like throwing away any financial papers.)

This is going to be an adventure.

Comments

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

Ouch! That's the kind of situation I'm going to get myself into with my total lack of filing system these days. I gotta get back to that.

If nothing else, take heart that someone else is learning from your experience! But most of all I hope you find the loan info and/or the bank has it. =crosses fingers, toes and eyes=

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling. I probably have the loan info because I really do never throw anything away. But the "loan paid off" letter? The actual title itself? Those, probably not.

At least if I have the loan info there's a good chance I can get the bank to write up that notarized letter.