Why, that's all I want to know

[mjdtexan]

As the owner of a few boats let me let you onto a little secret

B-reak
O-ut
A-nother
T-housand

 

[thndrdancr]

I had the same problem with a camper/trailer I had bought from a friend. Basically it was just a tent on wheels.

It had even been formerly licensed, but then they passed some type of silly thing that said first..since it was so old and wasnt bought at a dealership,I had to have my $100 doller camper inspected by the fire department do an inspection to make sure it really was a camper and I wasnt pulling a fast one. The fire department charged $150 to do this inspection, then you had to pay a fee to get the paperwork from the fire dpmnt...etc...

I never got it licensed either.

Would have cost over $300 to license my trailer I bought for $100. Sat in my garage for years til the neighbor bought it.

 

[max13077]

I stopped at a boat dealer this afternoon to see if maybe they had an old trailer kicking around. He said to go over to the local paving company, get the trailer weighed, and register it as a homemade trailer. Sounds easier than trying to fiddle with the red tape BS.

 

[Tala]

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I agree. The one in Little Rock is a major PITA, the one in Conway (my last home) wasn't so great either. The one in Benton (where I live now) is SUCH a relief!!! They're actually *real people* that work there, they explain stuff and how and why to do it, and they're pretty nice about the whole thing. It's no wonder that the lines are like 1/3 as long as anywhere else!

That's really weird about them commenting on the price being low. The last two cars I have registered were FREE and they didn't bat an eye about it when I gave them the title.


I'm with StrawberryHouseMouse, how the heck does a birth certificate expire?? Somebody was pullin yer leg because I've had the same one since ------ birth? lol I really do have the same copy my mom got for me back in the day, I assume she got it when I went to preschool. There's no expiration date on it

I don't know if you can get in trouble for it (you probably can) but every time my grandpa went somewhere with a trailer he always double checked that it had a license plate - and if it didn't he took one from one of his other trailers. Apparently he had like 5 trailers (all homemade) and 1 or maybe 2 license plates for them. He never got pulled over as far as I knew. If it's just a little fishing boat, just avoid the places that they check for your license

because most of the places I go you would be lucky to see another human, much less the warden.

 

[max13077]

The switching plates thing came to me as I was standing in the DMV listening to the lady ramble on. I'll try and jump through the legal hoops for now. But if it gets even more inane and ridiculous, it might just become an option.

I'm a real practical person. It's just the way I am. I still really would like to know why they have such a dazzlingly obtuse system. It's almost like the tax code. I think they make it so crazy, technical, and convoluted so nobody will understand it.

 

[mrkpero]

Sorry to hear about your problems. My husband and I just bought a 14 ft. boat with a 9.5 motor, as well. I just wanted to say when you are in the DMV (and is there really a worse place than the DMV?) picture yourself tooling around on the beautiful water catching lots of fish! Good luck with everything! Enjoy your new boat!

 

[mom'sfolly]

DMV in NY state is my worst bureaucratic nightmare, and I'm sure that they hire their employees by personality tests. If the person is nicer than a pitbull on PCP, they won't be hired.

I feel your pain, exactly the same thing happened to me with a car, that I had inherited and was changing from a MN registration to a NY registration. It was my grandmothers 1972 Dart, it had been purchased in Utah, and when it was moved to MN registered there. When I moved to NY, it took me three tries at the DMV, each time taking every peice of paper they said I needed, waiting more than an hour and then being told I needed something else. I think I drove about a year with out-of-state plates. They even wanted the original sales tax paid on the car....bought in 1972, regisistered.....wait for it.........in 1989.

The rabid, PCPed pitbull I dealt with had moles/growths all over her face, and she was incredibly nasty to me. I came within inches of saying "with a face like your's you really should cultivate your personality". But I'm not that mean......mind you she would have said it.

I hope you can find a way around it. But you may have to move out of state, register it there and move back.....

DMV in NY is run by Satan.

 

[beak]

Sell the engine. Make the boat in to a sand box. Junk the trailer. My friend asked if he could store his boat at my house. I let him. 3 years later I sold the house and told the owner he could have the boat. 15 years later I drove by the house to see if it was still standing and the boat was still in the exact same place.

Good sandbox. Disconnect the steering linkage and kids will have a blast in it.