So remember how I said I sold the truck? How could you forget, I mean, it is the post right below this one. I still have a potential buyer thankfully, but my goof on this one is monumental. What did I do?

I did all the right things; detailed the car, researched the value, posted ads, haggled and struck a deal. The windshield has been fixed and I was going to go to his place on Tuesday evening, accept the cash, sign the bill of sale and title over to him and say good bye. It was going to be like a dream come true. I left work on Tuesday with papers in hand with the exception of the title which is locked safely away in our safe under our bed. This should be easy I thought I will run upstairs grab the title and go, no big deal. When I arrive at home, my wife is ready to with her keys in hand as she will follow me to drop the SUV off and bring us back home. Let me just go and grab the title I say. I rush upstairs, slide out the safe from under our bed, unlock and rummage through all the important documents…”uh, honey, where is the title?” Now, we paid this vehicle off back in 2007 and at the time the title was held by Suntrust bank and after paying back the loan the title is mailed to you, yours to keep, yay! Given it has been two years it was a resounding “nope” that I entirely expected to hear. I checked a few places where I thought it might be with no luck. I gave the buyer a call, explained the situation of my idiocy and thankfully he was very understanding. I spent all of Tuesday and Wednesday night looking through every single nook and cranny of our home for this title. My wife found the congratulatory letter of paying off the loan in 2007, the letter saying we can register the vehicle in another state in 2005 when we moved, and all the service records ever completed on the vehicle, but no title.

Why, dear god, why? I made several phone calls to the state we live in, the state we used to live in, and Suntrust bank. Our state has no record of titling the vehicle here after we received the title from the bank. I am pretty sure we did this, but I have no proof. The state we used to live was rude to my request of simply asking if it still had a record of it being titled in that state and they said yes. Suntrust was above and beyond assisting me in getting a duplicate title. The title officer that I spoke with verified they no longer have it and then proceeded to call the state and order a second copy to be sent to him so that he may sign the lien release again and forward it to me once finished. That man is the man. In two weeks or so I should have the title in hand again and be able to get rid of this thing.

Of course I called the buyer and explained the entire situation yesterday and he was totally cool with it. Oddly, he isn’t in any rush and I couldn’t have asked for a more understandable buyer. The guy has a few hundred dollars of his money in my possession as a deposit to hold the vehicle. If it were me, I would have asked for my money back and moved on. Fingers crossed he stays interested the entire time. I really could use the money for the plasectomy right now.