Hi All -
Let me give you a little background on the situation I find myself in today.
Back in 2011, I was in a car accident which left my poor little Jetta needing about $3k worth of repairs. Depsite only being worth about $500 more than that, my insurance company refused to total it out. I didn't have the money to fix it, so I sold it to someone who was going to fix it and resell it. I sent the transfer paperwork to the DMV, etc etc, and never thought of it again.
Fast forward to this afternoon, I recieve a letter in the mail from a CA stating I owe the city almost $400 for back parking tickets! Now, I know I get a lot of parking tickets (parking is a you know what here), but I *always* pay them. Confused and angry, I called the CA, only to find out that these are two tickets from 2012, both on the Jetta that I sold in 2011. It seems somehow the DMV didn't process the transfer of ownership. Now, besides the myriad of other questions that I have about how this has happened, I'm stuck trying to prove that I sold the vehicle back in 2011. Despite having every other piece of paper even remotely mentioning my Jetta, I CANNOT find my bill of sale on this car. I have the proof from my insurance company where I removed the Jetta and went to a named non-owner policy, but that's as close as I have to proof that I sold it.
If I cannot get the DMV to accept this as proof of non-ownership, can I claim these under my BK7, even though they weren't at a CA at the time? There's NO way I'm going to pay these and I refuse to let them touch my credit history that I'm just trying to rebuild.
Thanks!
