Ohio titles? Ohio resisdents!!!?? Question

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I have a car her in Tx that I am selling to guy i Ohio. It is a bill of sale deal. I can get a bonded Tx title but he is coming down on his vacation in 2 weeks and Tx does not work that fast!!
He is checking into it on his end but an any OHIO guys tell me how much trouble it is for OH to issue a title with a bill of sale only??
 
I have a car her in Tx that I am selling to guy i Ohio. It is a bill of sale deal. I can get a bonded Tx title but he is coming down on his vacation in 2 weeks and Tx does not work that fast!!
He is checking into it on his end but an any OHIO guys tell me how much trouble it is for OH to issue a title with a bill of sale only??

Check with the TX DMV, and see if they offer an expedited title. It costs more, but many states do that.
 
It depends on the state it is coming from. All states have there way of doing things, New Hampshire uses bill of sale for anything over 10 years old if I remember, I bought a motorcycle with a bill of sale basically a registration, Ohio had no problem transferring it to a title
 
I bought a non-running car from Nebraska about 5 yrs ago. I was worried because Ohio DMV are PITA sticklers for title work.
Your buyer will have to get an out of state inspection where they have to verify the VIN matches the title (if there is one) and mileage. (It only costs about $5)

It took me a year to get to the point where I trailered it to get inspected. Title work and license plates are separate procedures.
Clerk came outside and I showed her where the VIN was. (Front A pillar in my case and she didn't have a clue) Noted mileage, check. Went back inside and gave her the 1967 Nebraska title and also the Bill of Sale supplied by the seller. Shocked that it wasn't notarized but seller told me it wasn't required. In my case the title had 2 names on it, man and wife. The wife had died but seller gave me a copy of her death certificate. Clerk looked everything over, typed things on a computer and the printer kicked in and out came my new Ohio title.

The part you are waiting for is that she looked at a chart on the wall that listed bill of sale states and Nebraska was one of them. If TX is bill of sale he should be ok.

But just to be on the safe side, I'd get it notarized as they are sticklers here.
I was so relieved to get my title that I immediately went next door and got plates.
 
I will be giving the Ohio buyer a TEXAS notarized bill of sale. He is trying to get info from the Oh. DMV today. I can get Tx bonded title but it takes several weeks normally and they are backed up now due to covid so it would take even longer. He wants to come down and pick it up in 2 weeks when on is vacation.
Yep every state is different as to how thy handle titles!!
 
Since you are an upstanding guy, and have already started the bonded title process, if the buyer will take it with notorized bill of sale, you can sign and mail the title to him once you get it.

A friend of mine bought a $100,000 car from an out of state dealer, and it took the dealer months to get him the title, he had to keep renewing his temp registration, but it finally all came together.
 
Since you are an upstanding guy, and have already started the bonded title process, if the buyer will take it with notorized bill of sale, you can sign and mail the title to him once you get it.

A friend of mine bought a $100,000 car from an out of state dealer, and it took the dealer months to get him the title, he had to keep renewing his temp registration, but it finally all came together.

I did a bonded title 3 years ago. Right now, I find the office that inspects the car as in the Highway patrol guy has been closed and will open June 15. I bet there is a big backlog! I have to take it the THE office so THE officer an inspect it!!!! I have to have the car here to get this done, and I doubt it will happen in the next 10 days!
The buyer wants the car as he knows it is worth the $. Looks like he needs to tend to the title in Oh. or just wait till I an get it done!!!
At 73, I want to thin the herd some, I can care less what sells first.
Back in good ole home state of Missouri all i needed was a garage to write the vin and mileage on their little form, give them $12, take that and a bill of sale to DMV and poof days later I had a title in hand.
But....Tx has some good tamales!!!!
 
OH is notoriously strict with respect to vehicles titles.

States generally know if another state issues titles or BOS only for older cars.

Likely OH will not only know a TX title is required, but also know the time statute for a TX bonded title to convey.
 
Curious.
Does Texas issues titles all cars?
If all they do is issue a registration on older cars with no title, one would think Ohio would know that and act accordingly to simply grant what ever is necessary to drive said vehicle on Ohio roads.
Other than that, I'm assuming the OP question regarding a title is for the buyers satisfaction and not Ohio's.

These types of issues with government DMV bureaucrats make me want to say;
"Screw you. I'm going to drive the damned car on your road. Either give me what I need to do that or I'll just drive it with a card from my lawyer in the glove box. I tried."
 
If all fails you can get anything titled from international title service.
I bought a motorcycle from Japan, 4 cyl 2 stroke and got it titled through them.

https://its-titles.com/
 
@brian6pac

Did it involve the police/LEO coming to your house to inspect the vehicle and it's VIN?

All of the services I've researched require this.

FL requires two VIN locations on the car's body.

Pre-1968 Mopars are problematic because they only have the VIN in one location.

Explaining to the LEO about SO numbers is usually something they are not interested in listening to, and they frequently refer back to the letter of the law, requiring two VIN locations, and then decline to sign off on the title paperwork.
 
These types of issues with government DMV bureaucrats make me want to say;
"Screw you. I'm going to drive the damned car on your road. Either give me what I need to do that or I'll just drive it with a card from my lawyer in the glove box. I tried."

ROFLMFAO!
I can see me standing on the side of the road with a cop as my car is being towed away to the impound lot. Any car caught with fictitious plates is pretty much automatically towed. And license plate scanners are becoming more common.
The Blues Brothers only had to deal with SCMODS.

Barbee, all it takes is a call by your buyer to the title bureau.
Question: Is Texas a Bill of Sale state? If yes then you're good.

I intentionally took my 64 to a small town out of my county that had a title bureau. I did NOT want to deal with a large city large volume bureau. The ladies I dealt with were pleasant and actually very helpful.
 
I glanced at the thread title and thought I saw "Ohio titties" and said "hot dog!"
 
@brian6pac

Did it involve the police/LEO coming to your house to inspect the vehicle and it's VIN?

All of the services I've researched require this.

FL requires two VIN locations on the car's body.

Pre-1968 Mopars are problematic because they only have the VIN in one location.

Explaining to the LEO about SO numbers is usually something they are not interested in listening to, and they frequently refer back to the letter of the law, requiring two VIN locations, and then decline to sign off on the title paperwork.


If you have a car without a title, this guy at International Title will search the vin and make sure it's not stolen, here is the catch, you have to sell the car to him, he puts it in his name in NH gets it registered and sells it back to you for the same price. He is a Lawyer and has been doing it for a long time. It was 23 years ago when he did mine. At the time a motorcycle was $75, a car was $200, Exotic car $500 if I remember. My motorcycle was not aloud in the USA. Some European cars are not aloud in the USA. If you get one through customs as a race car only, He will get it titled for you.
 
That's the same MO the place in GA had.

There was also another one out of ME that operated that way.

They still needed an LEO to inspect my VIN and have the signed document mailed to them.

On the link you posted, the first page says "no inspections" but the linked documents do say it needs to be inspected by someone with "authority in your state" such as an LEO.
 
Out state inspection is required to verify VIN to paperwork but Title office can be a PITA. Boats in KY have bill of sale. Took me two months to finally get a title so I could buy plates.
 
That's the same MO the place in GA had.

There was also another one out of ME that operated that way.

They still needed an LEO to inspect my VIN and have the signed document mailed to them.

On the link you posted, the first page says "no inspections" but the linked documents do say it needs to be inspected by someone with "authority in your state" such as an LEO.


Any new car dealership can do a vin inspection for out of state.
 
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