After two weeks of negotiating, I was about to buy an interesting 59' Overlander International today. We had agreed on a price and I was making travel plans to go pick up the trailer (trailer is in CA and I'm in WA).
Unfortunately, while asking the current "owner" totally unrelated questions about the systems, I learned that the title was still in the name of the original, deceased, owner.
Current owner bought the trailer from a friend who allegedly bought it from the estate of the deceased owner, but nobody ever bothered to transfer title or update the registration. So, the trail of documents includes a California pink slip signed over by somebody who claims to be the decedent of the original owner, a bill of sale to the 2nd owner and another bill of sale to the current "owner." I called three DOL offices in my state who all said that without a "notarized letter of testimentary," or a court order authorizing whoever signed the title over to actually sign the title, they won't register it for me.
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