How do I get a title for a manufactured utility trailer in NC w/o an Official bill of sale or title to trans?

I bought a utility trailer w/o a title from a couple from S.C. (they moved here to NC about a year ago) The orig owners lost the bill of sale a long time ago, and they never registered it because tags and titles are not required on trailers in SC. I don't know what to do. DMV has not been very helpful.|||Some times you have to get an attorney. But lets try this first.





First off always be very nice as these people can make you jump through more hoops than a circus tiger.





Call SC and ask them if they require titles on their utility trailers, make your you have all the info off that trailer in front of you. Serial number, how may axles and how long it is.


If they don`t require titles and a bill of sale will work in SC then get a hold of the couple that sold it to you and have them just make out a bill of sale from them to you. Now with that in hand and the knowledge that SC is a non title state, You take this info to your state and explain to them you just bought a trailer from a non title state and you need a state title and vin tag put on making it legal in your state. Now probably you will have to buy a form that will cost you 10 to 25 bucks, where I live it is 25 dollars. The highway patrol will fill out the form send it in and the state will send back a vin tag for your trailer. You will have to go back to the hwy patrol to have it stapled on.





If it dosn`t look like this will fly then, try and change the appearance of the trailer to where it looks home made and apply for a home made title and vin tag. The one thing you for sure want to do is make sure you do not do anything illegal. They will catch you and bust your a-- good if they catch you doing anything illegal.





One more thing. Call around to some of the attorneys and find out which one is doing titles in your town. Find that attorney and hask him who is doing the most tiltes with him tell him your problem and see if he will hook you up with a wrecker company or some pwing business that applys for titles ever few months. Once you know who is doing titles go to them and see if you can add your trailer on to the next batch they send off for new titles on. These towing companys tow peoples vehicles and if the owner does not pay the bill then after about 90 days the towing company can get a new title in their name and sell the vehicle for the tow bill I use to be in the towing business and have done this several times. In fact another fellow and I use to lump our stuff together so as to save on attorneys fees. Most attorneys cahrge a set fee whether it is one title or 100 titles. This is probalby the safest route for you to go especially if the state dmv is giving you a bunch of trouble.





One trick I use to use when dealing with the dmv in my state is, every person I talked to and every thing they said I made a note of it. Imadde sure to ask their names. When you ask their names they get off their azz and start doing thier jods instead of giving you the run around. Even if you call the hwy patrol do the sme thing get their nnames and write down what that person stells you so you can reference back to it later.





|||A friend of mine collects vintage camper trailers, restores them, and rents them out. She told me that recently she was offered a vintage camper trailer that had been abandoned 10 miles down a dirt road on a ranch (in California). She said she went to AAA and they helped her through the entire process, and AAA took something that could have been very complicated and made it easy for her to take over this abandoned vehicle. I put a link to her camper rental business, you can see the handmade work that she does on her trailers. Her contact info is listed there if you want to talk to her about her registration challenges when she adopts a new vintage camper trailer!