number of cars you can sell per year...

[gijosiahh]

does anyone know how many cars you are allowed to sell per year in Virginia before you have to apply to be a dealer or whatever?

i searched the DMV website and couldn't find anything.

you can still chime in if you know the law from other states, as im sure it will give me a general idea.

thanks.

 

[5-90]

does anyone know how many cars you are allowed to sell per year in Virginia before you have to apply to be a dealer or whatever?

i searched the DMV website and couldn't find anything.

you can still chime in if you know the law from other states, as im sure it will give me a general idea.

thanks.

Have you also checked "sales per month?" I think here in CA you're allowed to sell one a month without having to register as a dealer - so you may want to try altering your search string.

Also, check your local analogue to "Business and Professions Code" or "Municipal Code" as well - "Vehicle Code" has more to do with augmentation to the FMVSS, vehicle registration, and vehicle operation than anything else.

 

[~Spanky~]

South Carolina Law
SECTION 56-15-10
Part (4)
Persons disposing of motor vehicles acquired for their own use and so used in good faith and not for the purpose of avoiding the provisions of law. Any person who effects or attempts to effect the sale of more than five motor vehicles in any one calendar year is considered a dealer or wholesaler, as appropriate, for purposes of this chapter.

 

[5-90]

Yeah - but that varies from state to state. That's why I gave him the other titles to check - since it's not always in the Vehicle Code.

 

[~Spanky~]

Your State LAW is about the same...
That § 46.2-1500 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
"Motor vehicle dealer" or"dealer" means any person who:
1. For commission, money, or other thing of value, buys, sells, exchanges, either outright or on conditional sale, bailment lease, chattel mortgage, or otherwise or arranges or offers or attempts to solicit or negotiate on behalf of others a sale, purchase, or exchange of an interest in new motor vehicles, new and used motor vehicles, or used motor vehicles alone, whether or not the motor vehicles are owned by him; or
2. Is wholly or partly engaged in the business of selling new motor vehicles, new and used motor vehicles, or used motor vehicles only, whether or not the motor vehicles are owned by him; or
3. Offers to sell, sells, displays, or permits the display for sale, of five or more motor vehicles within any twelve consecutive months; or
4. Sells, offers to sell, contracts to sell, seeks to contract to sell, or responds to invitations for bids to sell trucks or utility or service vehicles to the Commonwealth or any agency, authority, or political subdivision thereof.

 

[gijosiahh]

Alright thanks for the info guys.

 

[flash2pablo]

VA is a little better than WA state, over there you could only sell up to 4 within a year period without being required to get a dealers license.

 

[Jess]

Usually whenever I get vehicles to sell, I don't register them. I keep the signed title from the PO and use it. That way they can't come back to me if I sell too many.

 

[flash2pablo]

As a law student it wouldn't be worth getting caught for a violation of ethics for me to attempt doing that, in addition to violating my ethics. It is really tax evasion if there is a sales tax and that is a bigger issue, even if you report the income if you sell it for more than you purchased it.

My opinion take it for what you will.

 

[yellowxj]

A bigger problem with unlisc. "dealers" is that the average joe selling cars on the side of the road doesnt have to make sure the buyer has a drivers lisc, insurance, etc. If you sell a car to an illegal immigrant or person who lisc. is revoked or suspended, especially for multiple DUI's, you could wind up liable for deaths or damages they cause, especially if you let them drive off with an open title in your name. A friend of mine was involved in a near fatal accident last year when an illegal rear ended an car coming toward my friend and shoved the car infront of his F350 w/ gooseneck trailer...accidents like that are why you cant buy a car in georiga with out a georgia drivers lisc now and we dealers have to run people through the terrorist data base and report large cash purchases.

Its not hard for the local DMV officials to notice if your selling a car a month out of your driveway. Its also illegal to "curbstone" cars in Georgia...you know...where everyone parks their "for sale" cars at a local grocery store parking lot or on an empty lot. Now if the owner of the lot lets more than 3(?) cars a year be sold from his lot then he can be criminally charged. If you try to sell an untagged car on the side of the road it can be towed or you can be criminally charged. They just changed the codes last year to make it a criminal charge so that law enforcement could issue citations instead of making the DMV take people to court. You can thank the large number of unlisc "dealers" for selling cars to people who shouldnt have them for legislation like this.

 

[Stroketech]

Heck, I think most of the states I have been in are 5. But when I bought my Jeep the title I got was 3 owners behind! It changed hands several times at the dealership I worked at. Seemed like everyone in the service dept had it at one time or another.:clap:

 

[Tim Dog]

Could you get away with selling more by never taking ownership and signing over the title from the seller to the new buyer? Who says it has to be written in you posession, or sold from you?