Buying a car in the SW USA (CA, AZ, NV) questions!

Ca, get title signed off for car and drive away. Pretty simple.

You might need to be aware of title skipping and whether a series of transfers through bill of sales are OK with getting it easily titled in MI. ex. Tiltle has owner #1 name and you are buying from owner #4 as nobody bothered to go do an actual transfer. Bill of sale from 1-2, 2-3 and 3-4 are all there. CA DMV doesn't care. If not, then go to the DMV in CA and get the cars in your name to avoid the paperwork nightmare. If you are a AAA member, you could possibly use one of the offices which makes things a ton easier.