1 - Get Title Application Packet from the BMV.

2 - Fill Out 3 page application for title packet with BMV. Fax it in.

3 - Wait up to 15 business days.

4 - Receive Letter of Denial from BMV (They always deny you)

5 - Take Letter of Denial and the other half of the packet you got from the BMV to the Civil Court Filings Office.

6 - Pay $35.00 for file for a title. $36.05 if you pay with a Credit Card.

7 - Go upstairs and wait in the Judges Office (longest part of the process)

8 - Explain how you got the car to the Judge and show him paperwork, etc. He will sign one of the forms in the packet.

9 - Take form back downstairs to the Filings Desk, they will photocopy it and give you an official copy of the signed Court Order For Title.

10 - Take photocopy to the BMV.

11 - Give them $17 plus applicable sales tax.

12 - Take your title home.

Done it twice, not hard at all.

Note, you cannot see a Judge until you have been formally denied by the BMV, so no you can't skip waiting out the BMV initially. The rest of the experience takes about 2 hours including driving.

Easiest way to find out if a car is stolen is to ask the seller for a signed bill of sale. A "**** no" or CLICK over the phone will give you a good answer. Also if you're skeptical ask for the VIN and call the BMV, they will tell you.

What I posted is how Ohio does it, Ohio is trying to get away from title by abandonment.

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Hey - it can only get better. We move on to Pink Flamingos next. It's all downhill from there.

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Uh.... I don't think that a rapidly rising rate of car theft is upsetting to anyone simply because it is CHANGE. I would like to think that any decent human being of any political opinion would be troubled by it. If rising theft does not trouble most people in this country then we are most definitely in deep shlt!

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Annoy a Liberal, Read the Constitution

Larry, could there be other rationales for increased auto theft statistics, as you claim, other than moral depravity and societal decline?

Scrapping a car without a title is easy. An hour with the sawzall and its now a pile of car shaped metal.

All you boys SHOO AWAY from Craigslist!

SCAT !

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2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

Yes, flouride in our drinking water and all-digit telephone numbers we now have to dial, and the other various & sundry Communist plots that plague and bedevil us to this day.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

F'n communists.

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From what I read, auto-theft rates are actually down over the past decade. Possibly because newer cars are much harder to "hot-wire."

Speaking of all digit numbers, I saw a bulletin board today in a small town upstate -- "To advertise here call (845)GL X-XXXX. Strange, because the 845 area code came into being well after the US moved to all-digit dialling.

not in the movies!just grab under the dash and yank.and when you yank you conveinently strip the exact wires back that you need to start the car.it's just too easy to steal these new cars.

Lol, having lived in springfield MO, I ran into the same thing. My conclusion is either most of the titles are in those payday loan and title loan places all over town, or people simply lose them due to disorganization. Farmers especially seem to instantly lose titles, an seem to own all kinds of super rare cars.
Then after a title is misplaced, and often times someone flipped a car and didn't sign over th title in the first place, you now have two degrees of separation, and just putting the car on craigslist and trying to sell it sans title is easier than going through the the title paperwork hassle.

In short, the answer is laziness and disorganization compounded by the national pastime of avoiding sales tax on flipping cars which disaccociates the seller from the state recognized title holder.

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Im not worried about my car being stolen. I worry about some DB breaking my window or putting a screw driver in the keyhole just to get nothing.

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Ta Da! I thought it was something like that.

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I have seen this a no. of times - I have to date seen 5 cars with titles but the owner never transferred it - as in 2 years of not transferring it, TX has a grace period of 30 days from the date of sale - after that its 20 or 25 bux per month fee. In summary your car becomes a basket case upside down.

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I'm seeing more of those title-loan places open up shop in the suburbs - I don't think they'd be doing it if there wasnt a demand.

I blame all the people with political views that don't match mine

-John

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