My stepbrothers friend took off with my car.

[herwords]

What is the name of your state? Nebraska

I sold a car at will to my stepbrothers friend for $2800. He only lived 1hour from me. My dad felt sorry for the kid cause he couldn't get a loan. We made up a contract that only stated he was allowed to test drive the car for a month but then he wanted to purchase the car. We started out at $250.00 a month but the payments got late so my dad set up the payments to be twice a month. Mind you I'm a 30yr old female and a little upset my dad interfered thats why I am on here doing this so I can get this done and over. I feel I am getting screwed cause I am still making payments at the bank. So in December this kid just up and moves to Texas. All we have is his email addy and physical addy but no phone number. He was writing to my step brothers but not me. He finally talked to me on chat 2 weeks ago saying "oh they gave me your new email". Thats bull cause I have had this email for almost a year and he has wrote to me before on it. He has made one $250.00 payment since December. I told him how much he was behind, plus he didn't pay for the yearly tax's on the car, he did cause he couldn't afford it. I still carry the car insurance on the car. Full coverage at that. He argued with me that he didn't think he was behind at all and that my dad said he gave him a break at X-mas time. I believe my dad when he said he didn't plus this kid I know is screwing us around. He is only 22 and I feel using us now and thinking he can run and hide now that he is in Texas. Can I report the car stolen or go get the car without having to repay him what he has paid? The title is still in my name. I spend more on this care a month than I make from selling it to him. Does that make sense? Any information would be greatly appreciated...Thanks

[dgingrich]

Who's name is the car in?

[herwords]

The title is still in my name at the bank...

[karihager1982]

WOW... I'm sorry but this whole situation sounds really stupid. I'm not trying to be mean...but you would have been better off selling the car on the street, or trading it in.

Why in the world would you & your dad do something like that? Now a days, you cannot trust anyone. (Or your parents advice!)

So here's this kid, out driving your car around in Texas, not making the payments that were arranged, and it's still in your name & insurance. How dumb.

If he is not keeping in contact, call the local police, and let them know what happened. Tell them that he has failed to make the agreed upon payments, and that the car belongs to you!

So this is what I would assume would happen:

The police will go and tow you car (if found), probably to the impound (sp?)...and there it will sit, accumulating a storage fee for everyday that it is in there. Which means you would probably have to drive from Nebraska to Texas to get it, because they sure aren't going to bring it to you,and I doubt this young guy who you "sold" it to will either!

Any which way...you got the crappy end of the stick.

Let this be a lesson learned.

[herwords]

I agree totally

You are very true. This whole thing was very dumb but my dad is a very soft heart guy so I gave in along with him.

I think what I will do is my family and I are going to head to Texas and just pick up the car or put an ad o Ebay stating the car is in Texas and they can pick it up at the police station. Of course I beieve I should seek some legal advice first.

Thanks a million

[karihager1982]

Yes - I agree that you should seek some legal advice. I'm sorry if I sounded so mean in my previous post, I just could not fathom doing something like that.

Good luck on getting the car returned to you, or sold.

~ Kari ~

[cmorris]

This car is not "stolen" in a criminal sense. You will have to file a civil suit in Texas. But, since the car is in your name, you can just go get it. The police likely won't touch this, as it is purely a civil matter.

[Debt Guy]

I agree with cmorris. This is a civil matter. The friend did not steal the car.

The fastest way to get the car back would be to hire a local repo agent to go pick up the car.

If you are waiting for the friend to bring the car back, well, I hear it is snowing in Hades.