Instructions for getting a Replacement Lost Car Title

Getting a Title for Your Car with a Bill of Sale
So you need to get a title for your car and all you have is a bill of sale. You may have been running into some difficulty because in most states they require more than just a bill of sale to get you a legal title in your name. Fortunately, you can do it yourself without having to pay any companies to get a title for your car.

Step-by-Step Process
Step-by-step process goes like this: first, go to the Vermont DMV website. Make sure it’s the actual government website from Vermont; looks like this over my shoulder. No, I know what you’re saying, you’re not in Vermont, you may not be from Vermont. That doesn’t matter; we’ll talk about that in a second.

Download the Form
Download this form from the Vermont DMV. There’s a link on their site. You can fill it out online, or you can even download it. You can find it at cartitles.com as well. Send in that form to the state of Vermont. There may be a fee of $40 or so depending upon what type of vehicle you have.

Receiving the Registration Title
They will send you what’s called a registration title. That’s their form of a title for a vehicle of that type. Once you receive that in the mail, that’s the legal ownership document.

Exchanging for a Legal Title
Step 3 is to take that to your state DMV and exchange it for a legal title in your state, in your name. At that point, you’ll have full clear title for the car. You can sell it, you can insure it, you can register it, do whatever you want.

Additional Notes
You don’t have to be from Vermont, you never have to go to Vermont, you never have to—the car doesn’t have to be from Vermont. It’s just a process in that state that allows you to get a legal title in your name. You can do this yourself; you don’t have to pay anybody to do it. It’s all a direct consumer process that you can use. Again, you can download the form from the Vermont DMV. You can even get it from cartitles.com without having to pay any outside service fees.

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