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Location: Central Florida | A while ago, I had posted about trying to register my horse trailer that I bought from my frien after her husband died. I finally thought I had the paperwork and got it registered and tagged and THOUGHT I was done with the headache of it all.
Seems I was wrong. I went to the tag agency in January to pay my tag like a good little citizen and there were problems.
I was actually sold a trailer with the wrong title. The title belonged to another trailer. The scheister who sold it to my friends husband, basically sold the same trailer two times. The other trailer is the one with the actual registration VIN on it - a utility trailer. Mine has conveniently had the vin tag removed, and Bee trailers in it's infinite wisdom only put the vin on the trailers on an easily removed plate. There's NO VIN anywhere on this 1995 model. So now I have an unregistered trailer with no vin number on it. How awesome is this? It is not, I tell you. Not awesome at all.
I purchased the trailer from a friend of mine who felt it was way too much trailer for her. Her husband had bought it with camping weekends in mind. He died suddenly after having started working on fixing and cleaning up the trailer. She was not involved in working on it and knows nothing of what he did or did not do to it. What he DID do was rewire the thing badly and added house fixtures on it for running lights. We've restored the wiring back to what it should be so nothing caught on fire ... people sometimes, I swear.
With that said, having no vin means I NOW have to prove that a clearly *not* manufactured trailer is home made. What a flippin' headache is this.
Over the course of trying desperately to find the back history of the trailer, I looked up what I assumed was an old owner based on the farm logo sticker with the name of the farm and the city/state it was in. I found her address and phone number with a simple google search. The lady was nice and super chatty with me until she saw the photo of the trailer. Suddenly she wanted the heck off the phone with me. She said she'd never seen that trailer in her life and had no idea why her logo was on it and didn't want to try to figure out why. Isn't that odd to anyone else besides me? If I found my logo on a trailer that wasnt mine, I'd sure as heck want to figure out why it was on a trailer I never owned or seen before, right?
I suspect that the trailer might be stolen. Of course having no VIN number, I can't verify that. Aside from the fact that I'll probably get screwed out of the money I HAVE purchased and put into this trailer if I DO turn it into the county it possibly resided in - right? Because I'm sure someone somewhere will want this back.
I'm dead in the water with 6000 lbs of trailer that I cant do a thing with. I'm pretty sure that if I try to register it as home made, the tag agency is going to laugh me out of the building. It is CLEARLY manufactured. Clearly. Very clearly. Even with the primer spots on it and the paint job looking like hell. Clearly it is NOT home made.
Any suggestions what to do? I thought about scrapping it but the scrap yard is going to give me less than 1/3 of what I have invested into this thing.
The tag agency isn't interested in going after this scheister of a douche bag that sold a bill of sale two times (one of those times illegally) and even with me holding the evidence of his tag in my posession (which came with the trailer). He was irritated that he never got it back. I bet. Especially if this thing WAS "Stolen". I'm betting she fell behind on payments and the trailer became "stolen" and someone was supposed to scrape her farm logo off and didn't. OOPS
So now, I have this mess.
Any suggestions? All I want to do is haul my horses around to events. I'm so frustrated I look at that trailer and get pissed. |
**HELP** registration help frustration
