How To Register Car In Ma With Hagerty

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For those who accept non heard what a 'well oiled machine' the Massachusetts DOT / RMV is...Allow me to tell you this tale.
Over the past several months, I needed to perform several transactions:
1. Change my out of country license BACK to a Mass i (I had a Mass license ~ 5-6 years ago)
2. Plate render
3. Register a vehicle.

Episode 1: Went to the RMV in my town for my license. Waited thirty minutes just to be told 'we don't do that here. You accept to go to a main co-operative' = xxx minutes away. OK, I'll wait.

Episode 2: License, registration, plate return. Waited in line for 25 minutes to make information technology to the Outset desk.. Passed ~ 5-seven people walking out the doors dropping f bombs at the staff. Showtime desk = OK's plate render, denies my license (equally I demand 3- Iii- address and personal signature items to confirm I am who I am.. Not including the out of state license, credit cards, etc...).
-Registration.. I have EVERYTHING one could ever need to LEGALLY register a car: championship, beak of sale, old registration, RMV-1 form (this is a wonderful document that is completed by your INSURANCE company and signed and stamped past them to annals your car in Mass). I have triplicates of everything. This is the 'cleanest' car I take e'er tried to register... I look 2 hours, go to the window..... DENIED. 'The RMV-i form expired 2 days ago. Everything else looks practiced'... I leave, telephone call Hagerty to see if they participate in the 'Mass RMV electronic signature program' .. They say they do. I have them email the RMV-ane class to me, I print information technology, return to the RMV, wait 60 minutes......DENIED. 'This looks too much similar a photocopy'... OK... 4 hours of earned time burned for zip...

Episode 3: Get in 20 minutes BEFORE the RMV opens. In that location is already a line, Outside, with 50 people in front end of me. Over the adjacent 20 minutes, 50 more than evidence up backside me. I make information technology to the Beginning desk at 0930. I get a number, wait 45 minutes. License: this time, I accept ten dissimilar items that prove I am who I am, live where I alive: nascency certificate, baptism document, W2, bank statement, 1040, professional licenses, a kidney, urine samples, blood work, my first born.. YES!!! Information technology worked... $115 later, I take a Mass license...
Registration: 'RMV-i looks proficient... Oh, the championship. The owner filled out the incorrect section on the back. He filled out the dealers section. I have to enquire the director IF we can approve this..' WHAT?!? IT'S THE ORIGINAL Owner, WHO IS ELDERLY, IN OREGON!!!! HOW THE H*LL Tin I Exist EXPECTED TO FIX THAT?!?!?
'Good news, the manager said we can allow information technology slide... But, this pecker of sale doesn't have the VIN, old title number, and color on it. Nosotros can't accept it'. :eek2:o No:. 'Well, I'll just write them in...'. 'Oh, you can't do that, sir, considering it is a TYPED bill of sale'. W......T......F....... Why is there is event NOW when there wasn't one final calendar week????? 'Oh, I don't know why the last person said it was ok'.... :moonu:
I head back to piece of work, merely to burn down 4 More than hours of earned time.

Epsiode 4: 'Larn' a new bill of sale, with the date, fourth dimension, year, make, model, VIN, sale price, names, addresses, color, doors, passengers, weight, cylinders, trans, wheels, tires, interior, etc, etc. I leave work 2 hours early, bulldoze 40 minutes to a DIFFERENT branch...in the centre of the ghetto... Spend ten minutes in line, 5 minutes waiting... become to the window, make small talk, present......and..... Canonical!!!!! The woman was kind enough to observe me a 'absurd' stock license plate...

So... That is a TYPICAL day for the Mass RMV. Feel costless to ask any Mass person almost it or call Hagerty...

Thank you for your time..
Y'all are going to love it when they manage your healthcare...
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Might have been easier to file for a lost title.
I know when I renew(i take a cdl so I must go down at that place), I get to a branch in the smaller towns around us. Tje places in town are but like tou described and I hate to wait.
Sounds like information technology would have been easier to move back out of Massachusetts.
No kidding.
I beloved living in a pocket-sized town at present.. alter title?.. no problem, go over to the place on chief street, walk right in and up to the counter, have my choice of two to iii people waiting to help me..

I have lived out here 3 years now, have bought tabs for 2 cars 3 times, and have changed the championship on one..

Take non been in the place more than 15 minutes total..

JW
Dude, come to cow hampshire, the dmv is a breeze.
Why anyone would subject themselves to any Massachusetts state government agency is an ongoing mystery to united states of america all.
Massachusetts regime agencies seem to get out of the style to hassle the citizenry of that state . I would NEVER alive at that place . Distressing y'all had to become through that mess.
I moved to Laconia from Mass. 10 years ago and I'1000 not missing the Registry clowns ane chip. I do feel for you lot though they can be the about frustrating people to deal with.
Seems about normal. It sucks living here if you're a car guy. Sucks bad.
Oh, and exist glad you actually had a championship. You lot should try titling a vehicle that never had ane!
dont buy a classic car in mass privately. regardless of what you paid they volition tax y'all on book value ,period no exceptions. I have had to pay upwardly of fifty% tax on several projection car purchases. If you buy a project car you are taxed on average Cypher book value retail of that model. It is a criminal enterprise and taxation without representation is alive and well at the mass DMV. and god help you if you demand a title. I went through hell to get a title for my suncoupe. customer service is really shabby also. Afterward a real ugly episode at the RMV with a nasty clerk and co-operative manager, I no longer do business with the dmv, my insurance amanuensis does all my rmv transactions for me. MASS RMV SUCKS!!!!!!
My Manitoba feel in a nutshell:
If I'm pressed for fourth dimension, I just call my local insurance agent's office as they're now representatives for the gov't MPI, aka DMV and let them know what I demand washed. They will begin processing the paperwork during their slower times and accept it ready for me. I can even accept one of the guys do it later on hours. p :beer He volition leave it in a safe identify for me toget my paperwork, then I leave a cheque and it's washed.

If I have time, just go down in that location and wait a brief menses until someone is bachelor. Depending on who serves me, we frequently BS for several minutes prior to getting down to business.

The local insurance agents now process drivers licenses also as insurance. Easy peasy. :beers2:

Oh they are even open Sat's from October to May. Information technology pays to go to know your local agent. I of the guys even has a 75 LeSabre convertible with a 455. :TU: I tried to buy it a few years ago.
A couple of weeks ago I stopped by the motor vehicle department near my home 20 miles NE of Louisville, KY to renew the registration on my truck and my wife's machine. There were 2 clerks sitting there watching a soap opera on Telly and no customers. I was done in ten minutes. I sure am glad that I don't live in Massachusetts.... :TU:

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All classic cars that accept antique plates in Kentucky are assumed to take a value of $100 (fifty-fifty if it'southward a restored '37 Packard limo or a '70 Hemi Cuda in #1 condition) so the total tax is six% of that which is plainly $6. The registration fee is around $threescore and the plates never expire only I do have to pay an almanac "holding taxation" on my '56 Buick which is 63 cents so I'm not lament.... :laugh:
Ooff. I merely renewed the tags for my Skylark and Centurion yesterday and I was in and out of the DMV building in under five minutes. Small towns FTW!No kidding. I bought my '69 Firebird from Alabama, which don't title cars pre-'74 (or so?). But the local DMV ladies were very patient and helpful here. They had no thought that other states had done that, but they sorted it out. It took six weeks, but a Nevada championship showed upwards in my proper noun.
Crazy how differently the varying states transact a alter of existent property. I've heard of people chasing 'round the mulberry bush-league for months to get a clean championship, and others simply coming in with a bill of sale and no championship, and walking out registered and up to date, plates in paw, hither in California. My terminal name is two words, but the DMV never could go information technology right. I had to get a new birth certificate (the Obama-looking one) recently, to get a new badge at piece of work (in spite of the fact that I'd already been working there for 20 years with the erstwhile nascence certificate). That one did the trick. When I went to the DMV after that, I explained the spelling. The clerk asked for my birth document, which I promptly pulled out of my shirt pocket. She sure looked disappointed that I had it at the set up. I like that Kentucky pricing schedule, though I tin can't really complain, since I merely spend 100 times as much. uzzled:
Have information technology from a long-time Masshole - It's meliorate now than it used to be. Every bit to the archetype car sales tax - you lot are admittedly correct. I had to pay substantially more in sales tax on my T so the price that I paid for it warranted. The upside is that after five years, the value of the automobile is 10% of the original sales price. A perfect 1928 Duesenberg SJ Dual-Cowl Phaeton is worth well north of $1,500,000, the people's democratic republic of Massachusetts would value information technology at virtually $one,200 for the annual excise. PLEASE - Don't anyone show this postal service to an elected Massachusetts legislator.
I want to thanks guys for assuasive that little disease to spread s. My $300, just barely restorable, 71 Riviera is deemed a "special involvement vehicle" and according to the DMV, is worth $8800 and then I owe something like $700 taxation on it.
I told them to pound sand.
In Michigan, a lot depends on who yous become to help y'all at the DMV. Year correct plates on vehicles, over 25 years old, are handled by mail only. Very easy. What pisses me off are those who testify up at the DMV without the correct documents, etc. and want to whine or fence with the person trying to help them. They take forever and waste matter all our time. I approach the counter, am friendly, accept everything in order and the check all made out except the corporeality. They love it and breeze right through information technology.
I wonder how many complaints the Massachusetts Secretarial assistant of State'southward office gets? Or, maybe they take such a arrangement gear up up that all yous become are answering machines that are never checked. I'd be hassling my land rep every bit well.
We retrieve alike. I'd be filling out the complaint form on the governor's website and letting them know merely how fubar'd their system is. NJ used to be like that a long time ago, now it'due south a breeze.