[blparent] OFF Topic: Question about Car Titles

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC Inc)]

Okay guys, here's what I know about buying a car. 
1. A blind person can legally bar a car, same as any other transaction.
All you need is money. 
2. You do need insurance and you need a driver to put his/her name on
the form, but it is not the driver that needs to be ensured, it is the
car. Talk to insurance companies and find one that will do this. Geiko
will, my aunt's insurance company is another that will, and I'm sure
there are others. You want the car insured for whoever drives, not an
individual. But the blind person or whoever ponies up the money is the
legal owner. 
Btw, it is illegal to deny you buying a car, so if someone tries, sue
the pants off them
Jo Elizabeth, I'd suggest in your case, buying the car, putting your
boyfriend as the insured form and then making sure the car has insurance
for everybody who drives it. 


-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Robert Shelton
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 3:23 PM
To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] OFF Topic: Question about Car Titles

I ran into this question a long time ago (mid 80's) and found no
satisfactory answer.  If this discussion goes off-list, please include
me --
rshelton1 at gmail.com

I think this is a pretty important blindness issue -- basic right of
property ownership.

Thanks and happy new year.

--ROS

-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto [mailto:jopinto at pcdesk.net] 
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 4:28 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] OFF Topic: Question about Car Titles

Sorry for the off topic post, but you all are a great resource, and I
was
hoping someone could answer a question about car titles for me.  If you
want
to take this off list, that's fine, please write to me at
jopinto at pcdesk.net.  Thanks.

The situation is that I would like to buy a used car for Gerald's
eighteen-year-old daughter to drive, and have her make payments to me
till I
get my money back and then the car is hers.  We found a safe, reliable,
practical used car, which wasn't an easy thing to do.  The problem is,
to
get the car title in my name, I need registration.  To get registration,
I
need proof of insurance.  And to get proof of insurance, I need a valid
driver's license, which I can't get, for obvious reasons.  Is there any
way
around the problem besides putting the car in Gerald's name?  I can do
that
if I have to, but I'm thinking there has to be some way of working it
out.
It's just like owning any other property, I would guess, except that I
wouldn't actually get behind the wheel.

Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.

Jo Elizabeth

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always
glorify
the hunters.--African Proverb


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