Looking at buying a car but the title has a lien on it and the owner is saying it was his deceased uncles car and the lien has been paid for years, he does not have a lien release.
I walked away
Now I am trying to verify lien status myself but the DMV lien/title site appears to not be working (I was going to get current DMV info/bank info off of here)
Also I am looking to get a carfax run if anyone can help
The car is priced right and I would love to buy it but until I know theres not a cent owned that isn’t going to happen
VIN is 2g1fp22g0w2101082
Carfax does not show if a lien has been removed. You could guess based off of when the last owner bought the car, but it won’t tell you specifically that a lien has been satisfied.
This happened to me once. I called, the bank verified the loan had been paid in full. I registered the car that day, title was still branded with a lien, had them mail me the lien release, when I sold the car I gave the release to the new owner to clean the title when he transfered it. That worked well for me