I have a motorcycle I would like to sell. I have the Plates and Matricula. What do I need to do when I find a buyer
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Process for selling a motorcycle
You need to get his passport/cedula and bring it to a notary or lawyer to draft up a bill of sale. You'll then sign the back of the matricula. Once the papers are ready the buyer can have possession. The he can go to INTRANT to change the matricula. Get a deposit before doing anything. I don't know if you can just show up at INTRANT with a bill of sale and change the matricula. I think they want to see a contract. I've always gone the lawyer route.
Thanks. Any idea of the cost for this and any recommendations in Sosua or Cabarete
Should be around 3000 pesos. Any notary or lawyer will do it. Nothing complicated.
Yes, they do. It's in Santiago and you have to bring the bike with you. That's why most people up here pay the lawyer to do that.
Some 10 years ago I bought a pasola, we went to a lawyer paid 900p to do a bill of sale, signed everything, I got copy of gringo seller passport.
Then took everything to fiscal (at townhall) in Sosúa and paid very little maybe a few hundred pesos, I think a week or so later I picked up the matricula in my name, easiest thing I ever did...!
But recall they said it was a special period where they set up a desk in fiscal to do this for the convenient of people..., rare thing in DR, but did help me then, save me going to Puerto Plata ...
Then took everything to fiscal (at townhall) in Sosúa and paid very little maybe a few hundred pesos, I think a week or so later I picked up the matricula in my name, easiest thing I ever did...!
But recall they said it was a special period where they set up a desk in fiscal to do this for the convenient of people..., rare thing in DR, but did help me then, save me going to Puerto Plata ...
Maybe the rules have changed(?). One of the reasons to many motos weren't registered, and didn;t have a matricula was the cost if you didn't take the moto to Plan Piloto in Santiago. In addition to the contract fee, lawyer were charging an extra 7000 pesos(approx) to register the moto and get the matricula.
I have never considered Santiago to be on the north coast. But I guess that's just me.
The government makes the process more difficult than need be.
Me either and that was the problem - all over a maybe 20k peso used moto. The bureaucracy here is mind boggling! If you buy new, you don't have to deal with any of this.
Don't forget the pain of getting that stupid license sticker on the helmet (that nobody wears). The actual plate and matricula is only (or was) 300 pesos on a new moto.
In many cases, you're better off buying a new pasola or moto. For reasons I can't remember, dealers are exempt from paying a lot of the extra fees when you buy used, no hassle running around, no lawyer contract fee, and you can get financing if you need it.
True, but you can wait for a year to get title. Just went through that issue with an agency in POP... Not their fault, the governments.
Of course the agency said it was the government, it is never anyone here's fault... LOL
Once the agency has the money, they have no incentive to get the documentation in a timely manner. You have to withhold money. Thats what I did. I held back money and gave them 2 weeks, it was ready in one. They always wait until they have 3 or four together so they save money and time but waiting a year is crazy.
I bought a new bike in 2017 from Papaterra, took them a year and many visits of reminders to get my matricula...!
I was thinking the next used bike I buy, maybe just go to a lawyer and get the contract of sale and leave it at that..., I might survive with marticula in someone else's name, just pass on his docs when it comes to selling it, can still get insurance and ride around, do you foresee much issues like that...?
I was thinking the next used bike I buy, maybe just go to a lawyer and get the contract of sale and leave it at that..., I might survive with marticula in someone else's name, just pass on his docs when it comes to selling it, can still get insurance and ride around, do you foresee much issues like that...?