I allowed a friend's friend to work on his vehicle at my house, using power, tools, etc. vehicles. A truck was to be done and driveable months ago. He stopped working on it & decided to have it hauled to a new place. He assured me that it would be out of my way long before winter. I have contacted him by phone and by letter and asked him to please move it, and several notes posted in his back house door to let him know that I've had to work around his vehicle with the leaf problem in the fall and now we've had snow and ice and again, having to work around and push the vehicle away from the garage doors to get things/other vechicles in and out. He refuses to contact me back. I have even offered to buy it for what I know he has in it. Am I able to charge storage fees on it or pur a lien on it I have rights to get a duplicate title so that the vehicle can me mine, or should I have it towed away at his expense? This is my property. I need to know what to do.
2007-12-12 10:12:43 · 4 answers · asked by mnemes@att.net 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Contact your local police to see what the requirements are for a private impound! Just as a shopping center or other business can have a car towed from their property, you can have the car towed from yours! They may be able to direct you to a company to tow it!!
Another alternative is to have the truck towed to his house (you say you put a note on his door, so you know where it is) and dropped on his front lawn! You would have to pay the tow bill, but it would get rid of the problem!!
2007-12-12 11:05:07 · answer #1 · answered by fire4511 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Might depend on which state you're in, but I think a lien is in order. Go talk to your DMV and explain to them that this vehicle has been on your property. They'll give you the paperwork to start a lien on it. You'll need to mail a registered letter (the kind that gets a signature for receipt) and then the registered owner has a period of time to 1) pay you storage and 2) move the car. After some time, DMV will allow you to sell the car on a lien sale document.
An alternative would be to push the car into the street. After a few days, the police will put a sticker on the windshield and after a very few days, tow it. The tow company will store it and after about a month, do the lien sale thing.
The first course of action would give you some money (the price you get for the car).
The second would give you no money, but you'd be rid of the car.
There *might* be some sort of liability with the second, since the guy could argue that you had a responsibility to care for his car.
You'd not get a duplicate title, since that's issued to the original owner. However, if you demonstrate that the storage charges are substantially larger than the value of the car, you may be able to convince DMV that you have acquired sufficient equity in the car to title it in your name (not a duplicate title). I think the legalities are complicated. Possibly you may not be able to establish the length of time it's been on your property until you start the clock with the registered letter. These are things you have to work out with your DMV.
Adverse possession is always complicated. You mess up in any one step, and you could be on the hook. To make sure you don't do anything wrong, you might want to get an attorney to help you. Check with your bar association - you can find their phone number in yahoo yellow pages. Call 'em, tell 'em you need some inexpensive help with a vehicle lien sale on your property, and they'll give you an attorney who will probably charge you a nominal fee ($50 or less) for a half-hour. If they do more for you, they'll expect a bit more money, but that, too, is something to discuss at the first meeting.
Too bad that the guy took advantage of you. You tried to be decent, but ignoring you isn't nice, so do what you need to do. I think you might also lose your friend out of this, but maybe you're better off without a friend whose friends are flakes. That's your call. Good luck !
PS - You might also get some help if you go to a tow yard and ask them how the lien sale process works. If they spend five minutes giving you the "For Dummies" version, that could help you a lot.
2007-12-12 10:33:09 · answer #2 · answered by going_for_baroque 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
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2016-11-26 02:15:28 · answer #3 · answered by embrey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contact an attorney in your area for the laws on removing someone's property that is causing you undue inconvenience. Seems to me that after awhile, eminent domain would come into play. But, I'm not an attorney. You have demonstrated considerable patience and understanding in this and the law may be on your side.
2007-12-12 10:19:37 · answer #4 · answered by klingonanna 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋