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.

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[jcgbigler.livejournal.com]

larksdream just bought a car and paid Carfax for a title check. She paid the extra $5 (i.e., $25 instead of $20) for "unlimited title searches over a 30-day period" instead of just one title search. She offered them up to her friends in this post (http://larksdream.livejournal.com/421457.html). In case you take her up on it, I'll give her a heads-up that you might be asking her to run one for you.

[jcgbigler.livejournal.com]

Whoops. The post is friends-locked. I'll ask her to comment here if she's willing to extend the offer.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much! I bet that will be very helpful. Thanks for connecting the two of us!