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Originally Posted by rspears

If you are going by the book the notary must witness both signatures in order to afix his/her seal and notarize the document. In my experience bills of sale are not normally notarized - they are a simple contract conveying ownership. Your salvage yard should give you a bill of sale, and he may have a salvage title - not likely for a small yard with only old stuff, but possible. You'll need to call your county DMV to see what they require, IMO.

The only reason i asked is because i would be going through a company online, that sells you a title for any car. They just need all the cars info and a bill of sell that is notarized. and they do all the hard work. So what if i cant get the guy to come with me to a bank or court house? He has a few thousand cars. I am doubting he has a bill of sale or title for for half the cars let alone all of them. So his name would have never been on the title and/or the DMV records so i could just have a friend go with me to a bank and have it notarized saying i bought it from him if anyone asks he can just say he bought it from a guy and and he never got the title from him and cant find him to get it so he gave up and sold it to me. no big deal Right?

Originally Posted by Dano61

The only reason i asked is because i would be going through a company online, that sells you a title for any car. They just need all the cars info and a bill of sell that is notarized. and they do all the hard work. So what if i cant get the guy to come with me to a bank or court house? He has a few thousand cars. I am doubting he has a bill of sale or title for for half the cars let alone all of them. So his name would have never been on the title and/or the DMV records so i could just have a friend go with me to a bank and have it notarized saying i bought it from him if anyone asks he can just say he bought it from a guy and and he never got the title from him and cant find him to get it so he gave up and sold it to me. no big deal Right?

In these days of electronic records I would not even think about the "title company" - that is considered fraud by most states, and can get you into varying amounts of trouble, depending on how your local DMV and state of NE want to play. A bill of sale is simply a statement from one person to another, stating that as Owner he is selling to you all rights to the property. There is nothing in DMV about a BOS - you use it to establish ownership to get a title. Getting a buddy to lie about selling you the car is dancing with the devil, IMO. Today a legit salvage yard sends the VIN of the cars in, and the DMV knows that the car has been salvaged, not stolen. Your "washed" title that you buy won't match numbers with your car, and if you look carefully they will tell you the title is sold as a collectible, not to be used as a legal document , yeah right. Do it right, get a BOS, and walk through the process with your DMV, but don't wait until you've sunk $1,000's of dollars into the build....