Regy question NY

[central50]

Hello all,

I recently received my boat from the PO. He originally bought the trailer from someone but apparently never registered it. He now cannot find Tue regy he received with the trailer and is dodging calls. Am I in the hole now? I can't buy a regy off of someone who scraped their trailer right?

Thanks

 

[JimS123]

Re: Regy question NY

The fact of the matter is you just bought a parts trailer. Falsifying registrations is illegal. Its hard enough to register a trailer in NY even if you have the right paperwork. To register it as homemade you need receipts for tires, wheels, axles and a bunch of steel. Been there done that.

Camp out on the guy's doorstep and ask for your money back. Small claims court is another option.

 

[04fxdwgi]

Re: Regy question NY

Hello all,

I recently received my boat from the PO. He originally bought the trailer from someone but apparently never registered it. He now cannot find Tue regy he received with the trailer and is dodging calls. Am I in the hole now? I can't buy a regy off of someone who scraped their trailer right?

Thanks

If, indeed, he never registered it, you may have a problem on your hands. There is no proof the seller ever owned the trailer. Is the trailer big enough to require a title? Small ones don't need a title, but signing the existing registration on the back effectively transfers ownership to a purchaser. The registration surely has long expired from the origional owner's registration and there seems to be no reg slip to sign over.

The only solution would be a bill of sale from the origional owner, that he bought it from, to you, but that may be a strech..


I registered mine in NY from a Florida title / reg / bill of sale with zero problems, but I had all the paperwork in line.

 

[central50]

Re: Regy question NY

Well we think it is best to just get another trailer at this point. We are going to try to get the same model that needs some work and use the current trailer as a parts trailer since this is just going to be a PITA and the PO who I finally got in touch with doesn't realize.

 

[RLMarz]

Re: Regy question NY

Duplicate

 

[RLMarz]

Re: Regy question NY

I went through the same issue last week. If there is a VIN on the trailer, you're in luck. If not, see if you can find an unladen weight on the trailer. Essentially you can go and register it as a homebuilt, given it's unladen weight is less than 999 lbs. They require you have a weight slip for the unladen weight. The DMV wasn't too fond of me using a generic bill of sale, but the supervisor approved it as there was no other way of dealing with the trailer. No VIN and no former registration; they had to allow it to be registered as a homebuilt.