title issue
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up yeah hey everybody Eric here from nomatic fanatic I hope you guys are doing well I uh
in my last video I expressed some issues I was having with the orgon title getting it
transferred getting this Bigfoot RV transferred into my name and um I don't have a resolution
yet I don't have a resolution yet but before we start you know I've had lots of help along
the way from you guys leaving comments um I would also say that there's probably 400 comments in my
last video when just saying Eric just go register it in Arizona Eric just go turn into an Arizona
resident and get it registered um and so rather than reply to all 400 of those comments it made
me think why does everybody think that I can just go magically register this vehicle in Arizona and
how I could just easily be in Arizona and that's because what happened is a lot of people think
that as soon as you buy land you automatically turn into a resident and that's really weird to
me that there's so much information about that did you know that you can go online right now you can
sit there on the couch with your laptop you can go buy property online site unseen in Florida New
York Washington Texas Arizona how does that make you a resident legally you didn't you didn't have
to visit these places to buy property there that does not make you a resident uh setting up camp
does not make you a resident um in Arizona it happens to be a little more difficult to become
a resident of Arizona than say Texas where I have an actual established government tie with escapes
and the city P County which says you know you have a designated at home here you actually
live here it's not just a piece of land and it's not just a PO Box at escapes either it's an actual
RV living space um there so establish so for me establishing uh in Arizona would would I would
have to prove residency and you have to actually prove that in Arizona it turns out um some one
of the requirements that I can't get around right now is that you have to have two Utilities in your
name at your house where you live okay well that would be really difficult for someone who lives
in an RV on property that has no utilities I'm completely off- grid up there however I do have
a trash service there um I also do sometimes get water delivered there and propane refilled there
so you know I thought about you know reaching out to these companies and saying hey even though I
don't have a mailbox out front can we temporarily change my billing address to the physical address
uh in in Arizona and then just don't mail me any bills cuz like I said there's no there's no
mailbox there there's no services but that's how I would that that would help me become an Arizona
resident if I chose to go down that route but that's beyond the point at this particular moment
because as you guys know Texas won't validate my title they won't give me registration they
also won't even give me temporary trip permit to get back to Arizona and that was just really oh
I was starting to go down a path that was really ugly thinking that this channel is going to make
a huge change luckily for me luckily for you I did not make any rash decisions I have some
really good friends out there who helped keep my mind on a Level Playing Field and try to be more
solution based and how do we get through this and stuff like that also going back to Arizona I had a
couple friends pretty much guarantee me that I was going to be able to take this registration and get
it easily registered in Arizona because magically all my problems will disappear if I just turn into
an Arizona resident and go register the vehicle there well that did not work out I did try and and
I I know thank you so much to camper van Kevin he made a special trip down to the desert title sholo
office there he had all of my documents I emailed front and back of every single document we sat
down on a three-way call with the title agent there and uh she said the same exact thing she
said absolutely not I cannot register this vehicle with the title as is however if you were here in
person with all of this paperwork I would issue you a temporary trip permit here in Arizona I
thought well that's awesome that'll get me by for a little bit huh that is like the best news that
I've gotten yet somebody's actually going to let me legally drive this RV how do I get to Arizona
though that's the tricky part right well through the magic of [Applause] teleportation I'm back in
Arizona thank goodness let's go back inside I'm just happy to be back here this is where I needed
to get to because I also have my ltva pass on the RV and and all and my Harley and all my stuff was
here and I get to stay here until April 15th if I need to take that long or I could take all my
paperwork up to the the title place on the bike or with a friend and I can go get that temporary trip
permit to fix things I want to explain exactly what's going on because I do think this could be
a learning experience if you're buying an RV from another state that you're going to registered in
as well as exactly what the problem was with this title was and why there's like this weird you
got Oregon saying we're a dealership we didn't do anything wrong don't be mad at us and then
you got Texas you're trying to avoid taxes you're illegally registering this vehicle you don't even
own this vehicle or you don't even have the right to sell this vehicle to Eric Jacobs like that is a
serious drastic difference between two states why did that happen well my buddy Shawn and I we we
talked it over the phone and we kind of figured it out and then I presented that information back to
the dealership and they said you're right that is exactly what is going on right now so okay before
we go into the title what's the kind of the one thing different about Oregon well there's a few
States but the one thing different about Oregon between Texas is Texas has state sales tax Oregon
does not have sales tax meaning if you live in Washington or Idaho you can travel over into
bordering Oregon you can buy a big screen TV and pay no sales tax that's that's like a huge thing
right however if you buy a vehicle from Oregon and then you're planning on on registering another
state you do still have to pay your state state income tax and I knew that was coming eventually
when I got this registered I'm going to have to pay like 2500 bucks in state sales tax to Texas
alone fine we're not even there yet though but okay so I buy a vehicle from a dealership you
would think they have the right to sell me that vehicle and you would be right because this title
is in an open state in the state of Oregon right now there's some information on the the back that
is not right okay so under seller it says okay trades under buyer it says world of RVs that's
the place where I bought the RV from shouldn't my name be on there and when I asked them about
that they said no this title is in an open State This Is How We Do all of our title transfers and
I remember pausing for a slight minute at the dealership and saying I just I don't feel like
that would work in Texas I remember thinking that in my mind but you're buying from a dealership
you got to think they're not going to sell you something that they don't own right so
anyways long story short you guys know I went to Texas and that is exactly what the problem
is the seller should be world of RVs the buyer should be Eric Jacobs now as far as the ladies
at the counter freaking out thinking that this dealership didn't have the right to sell it to
me well that's that difference between two states you see in the state of Oregon since there's no
sales tax if somebody like a dealership Buy buys a vehicle and doesn't put it in their name but they
keep the title open and there's a there's there's one buyer in there that's missing right and then
you hand it over to the next buyer they go into the Oregon office there's no problem why because
nobody evaded taxes during that transaction that title was in an open State anyway the state wasn't
going to gain anything by them applying for a new title now in a perfect world believe me it
would be great if the dealership had put this title in their name however Oregon is also one
of those States ironically takes a very very long time to get your physical title we're not talking
weeks here we're talking months and I've heard as far as six or seven months to physically get the
title after you apply for it now if a dealership that turnover rate that kind of sucks even though
you're not paying an extra money to get that title that RV has to just sit on your lot for
half a year before you can even list it for sale with your title that's why it's great having an
open title platform in Oregon where you don't have to put it in your name you can just sell it
and then that would that was a legal transaction however in the state of Texas that is not correct
and although I have proven ownership with other documents there's there's there's no question that
I own this RV that is attached to that VIN number the state of Texas and the State of Arizona that
I know of probably a lot more have a big problem with the back of the title not listing the dealer
on the other paperwork who sold it to me and the buyer being Eric Jacobs that's the problem
so how do we fix this you guys remember I talked about getting a dealer reassignment form it's an
actual form in Texas now that's not a form that's official with DMV and Oregon and the reason for
that is because it was never necessary from the beginning you wouldn't go in there as a dealer
and say I need a reassignment form they're going to look at you and say the title's open and ready
to sell you just sell the title you don't need to reassign anything we don't care Texas cares
Arizona cares they won't even register your vehicle without that change so how am I going
to fix this the good part is I'm in Arizona I'm with friends I can work on some other projects
like the solar system and a few other things while I try to get this sorted but I do think that there
is going to be at least one possibly two flame PL flame plane flights for me uh either driving
getting a ride or riding the motorcycle to the Phoenix Airport then flying out to Portland I
may have to give this title over to somebody there I don't want to mail it but I may give it
to someone like World of RVs have them register the RV have them wait for the title it you know
it'll be later this year you know and that's what that's what worries me however again I have this
place till April 15th I've got my property there what what we really want to do is try to get some
certified documents from Oregon dealership which is what we were trying to get before I left uh
that would certify that this serves in Li of your form of dealer reassignment and then put
those together and submit it the problem is the Texas office doesn't want want to do that right
now and so we have this clash with them look guys if I have taught you anything with this
process buy a vehicle only within the state that you live and where you're going to register it
from you do not want this hassle I even my worst enemy I do not want you to have to go through this
especially if your life and your business revolves around traveling and what do they do Texas plants
me and says I can't travel that's why I got out of there so quick without even thinking I mean I
got teleported out of there back to Arizona so uh they did send me some documents from Oregon
the dealership has been very very helpful I didn't mention the dealership yet because you
know just some problems that I've been having some weird surprises you know with the slide
thing going on and then this going on you know I didn't want them to have a bunch of calls and
say oh you sold Eric a bad RV or you didn't give Eric a good title no there's a story behind all
this and I don't I don't think the dealership did anything maliciously I think more so it's it's my
fault more than anybody's fault for not buying an RV out of Texas with a Texas to Texas transfer or
I could have made a phone call instantly I could have called the Livingston pulk office and say
hey I'm thinking about buying this RV it's already filled out in the back because it's an open title
but they can't put my name on is that going to be a problem she would have said absolutely that's a
problem you need to bring me a title that has you as the buyer click and I would have got back on a
a plane and probably flown back to Arizona but being as we're still in in contact and they're
still trying to help me here's the other weird thing with the storms going on the ice storm of
the sentury I guess there in Texas and everything the offices are still closed they might be open by
the time you see this but here midweek the the offices are still closed the mail room still
closed the licensing tax office is closed it's too cold to open the offices they say there's
no snow or anything but yeah very strange and the first package that they sent that was certified
overnight guaranteed next day that actually got lost in transit so um good thing I didn't
have a title in there because the USPS lost the guaranteed package now that's not a state of like
what my bad luck is right now I don't know what is that's why I absolutely would never send this out
even if I paid $50 certified mail I would rather fly for hundreds of dollars and hand it directly
to them you know they're going to try to refill out those forms get them recertified notorized
and stuff like that and send them out here to me here in Arizona and once I have those I need to
think about it now that I've Got Friends that can watch my kitties for a day or two I could fly out
to Houston Rent A Car get to Livingston I could do this all in 24 hours with a plane ride instead
of driving across the country for a sixday trip that turned into a week that turned in you know
so that's where I'm at right there also I want to say it's not like driving this RV was a complete
wasted trip because I still would have had to have physically had this RV there for the inspection so
there's no way to get around the Texas vehicle inspection pass sheet this has to be submitted
at the counter in order to also register your vehicle so I couldn't have just flown out in the
first place with this documentation because they still need to check the VIN and do your vehicle
inspection that's all I'm saying so however looking forward now that I have that and the RV is
parked here in Arizona for the meantime I can look into remotely dealing with this no not remotely I
would physically have to still fly to Livingston with my pay the pay the money that I owe them to
get the plates and then I could fly back with new plates in my backpack and my registration put it
on it and then I would be legal for a year I am still considering the whole Arizona thing like
like I said I just I feel like there was a lot of misinformation out there everyone's just like
you're an Arizona resident Eric you obviously are because you have property it doesn't work
that way guys but thanks for trying and then even more people like a thousand people and you
know no hard feelings but some of my best friends said I guarantee you you will be able to register
that here in Arizona Eric that was also not true Arizona won't register this vehicle either so but
it is what it is I'm not giving up guys I'm not giving up it's just this is an incredible stress
on me and uh so now I can't do anything today what are we going to do I work on the RV I placed
33 orders on Amazon Prime all being shipped here to my moon Mountain address they are so awesome
there at getting my packages letting me know when my packages are there my first item of my $7,200
purchase on Amazon is a DC todc victron charger this will replace like your onboard inverter plug
that that that trickle charges those lead acid batteries that come with an RV since we're going
to be upgrading to lithium we need a lithium version that goes from the alternator to the
batteries so this is the first piece and as you can see I'm clearly going with victron components
$7,200 worth of stuff on the way I think when it's all said and done I will probably get this
job done for just under 12 Grand and that includes I paid the gas to get Wayne from Florida to here
and then I'm going to pay him to do the job once again he's really reasonable though and once you
see his work if you haven't already and you're here in court site and want a similar job you
might want to talk to RV preer Wayne when he gets here because he he will probably be looking for
some other work after he finishes my solar stuff here on the Bigfoot it's going to be awesome guys
it's going to be really really good and it'll be a great distraction here for me to get my mind
off the whole title issue you know Opie are you glad we're back and we're done driving are you
so glad about that yeah I'm glad too Opie why'd you bite me you want to play you brisky monster
you're such a monster you're such a monster yes you are thanks for kisses thanks buddy yeah
we're parked hi t oh te bear you happy too okay okay well certainly uh it is time it is time to
go uh play in Courtside now that everything is up and running so in my next video we'll go uh
have some fun you guys be well thankfully I made it back safe we'll see you guys in the next one
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