RV sale - YAY!!!

The "Deed" has been done! We have so much to be thankful for.

Because the RVing season is basically over, I knew finding a buyer would be much more difficult than during the summer. I had exactly one response to my ads, and upon viewing the RV they loved it and immediately commented that it's "sooo clean!" and made me an offer on the spot.

We went to her bank together and I was present while she bought a bank cashier's check from her bank. I made a point of going immediately to a branch of my bank just across the street from hers. It cleared immediately, with no 2-day "hold" like they sometimes do.

Since DMV's website is not forthcoming with clear information on the paperwork let me just outline it here.

• Fill out and sign Certificate of Title (pink slip). Top portion goes to you, bottom portion to the buyer.
• Fill out and sign a Bill of Sale (REG 135), found on DMV's website here. Keep a photocopy for you, original goes to buyer.
  
• Fill out and sign a Notice of Transfer and Release of Liability (aka NRL) (REG 138), or you can now do it online here.
• Buyer brings Bill of Sale (REG 135) and Certificate of Title (pink slip) to DMV. There will be a transfer fee, and if I understand correctly, the buyer will also be required to pay the sales tax at that time.

We are immensely grateful because when I met the buyer at the storage facility, I found that there had been an RV fire just on the next aisle, a few feet away, the previous day. Yes, almost immediately after weeks of problems and setbacks had culminated in finally getting the RV washed and waxed, the RV was splattered with soot and charred debris! Even so, there was PLENTY to be thankful for. Despite the burning debris flying from a total of 3 RVs going up in smoke, ours was not one of them! And all our irreplaceable photos and personal belongings had only just been cleaned out, so that if it had caught fire only a couple weeks prior, we would have lost some of the things we most cherished. Thank you God!!!

What's more, the RV owner whose rig had malfunctioned and started the fire was fully insured, so the 2 families whose neighboring RVs caught fire will be getting reimbursed for their losses. My deepest thanks to God as that whole thing went 1000 times better than it could have.