By fisherman? What the hell does that mean? We are talking boats and motors.....so a duck hunting boat owner or a ski boat owner is fine....with their little tin boats, but us fishing guys are full of [censored]?

Are you saying we aren't?

All this so call " BS Paper Work " IMO came about because some boat owners failed to do the proper paper work in a timely manner win buying or sale a boat etc . It's real simple make sure paper work is legit or take your $$ and find one that is . Real simple

I'm guessing this is on lower priced boats that were never financed, and the 2nd owner, did not care bout xfering the titles. Titles do exists when whoever purchased the boat.

The cost is part of the reason people don't transfer titles, and register. They buy the boat with no intentions to ever sell.

The boat (14' with 10 HP motor) cost me about $225 to transfer titles, register, and plates for the trailer. This was on a $900 rig. All these fees have gotten out of hand. 25% tax and title of a purchase price is ridiculous.

No I didn�t mean only fishermen were not titling their boats, I think of everyone as fisherman. My mistake ,But having said that the first guy i call this morning about a boat he was trying to sell, first thing I asked do you have the papers no I didn�t transfer them, he says it doesn�t matter as long as they�re not dated, I said thank you for your time sir.

And yes this happens more with Lower end boats ,If I was looking at boats from 40 to 70,000, I�m sure I wouldn�t be having this problem

The thing that gets me is they get this money every time the boat/motor/trailer/car/truck/etc... changes hands during its life. Same piece of property sales taxed over and over again. It is crazy.

If SELLER has title, but, never transferred it to HIS name, then whenever you present a Bill of Sale FROM him with $ amounts for boat/motor/trailer, YOU WIILL HAVE to pay for HIS transfer, THEN yours. Its called "Title Skipping". I bought a trailer. He had Title, but it was STILL in the persons name HE bought it from. He did NOT get it transferred into HIS name. All I had was that Title & a Bill of Sale from him. The Clerk at the vehicle registration office was KIND enough to assist me in what needed to be done, but, it wound up COSTING ME, another $225. In other words I had to pay what he was too cheap & lazy to pay. I reluctantly paid it & got tags & Title in MY NAME. Yes, I did call him. Yes, He responded exactly like the cheap_ss b____rd he was. I got the c channel trailer I wanted , but , since he hadn't had any luck selling it "because " of that I actually only offered half of what he was asking. I STILL came out on the good end. Or track down previous owner & see if they will send you a Bill of Sale. Most times you can't locate them or they're deceased.
Just a heads up to those who don't/won't go do what they're supposed to do: expect to take half or less than what you want for it or keep it. Its BS. Everything I own HAS a Title In MY name & always will.

I agree with you that it's a bad situation.....but calling him a cheap [censored] bastard (maybe he's just lazy) when you only offered AND PAID half his asking price kinda makes you one too. Sounds like you got a good deal and had to spend a tiny bit extra to get it. Sounds like it was worth it.

Just sayin