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

[ckd]

From looking at the CA DMV stuff, it sounds like the registration info should have some kind of lienholder/owner listed. That would at least give you the bank that was eaten by the bank that ate the bank that swallowed the spider that wriggled inside her....

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yep, that one I know and even have memorized from looking at my registration for so many years. :-) From there it's a trail of clues to follow.