All Forum Posts by: Mimmo La Marra

after several months of dealing with the MVA and local Town Court, I finally was able to narrow down the exact process on how to dispose or re-title this abandoned car:

1) if you happen to know how to track down the last owner of the vehicle, send him/her a registered letter asking either to come to pick up the vehicle, or to sign the title over to you

2) if you do not get a reply, call the police as suggested by @Dale Hensley . Police will tag the vehicle as abandoned and attempt to contact the owner.

3) at that point the vehicle could be sold at an auction and if nobody wants buys it, you can follow the writ-of-mandamus route to take possession of it.

Hope this can help other fellow investors that might run into a similar issue

Mimmo

Dave, you were correct.

after several months of dealing with the MVA and local Town Court, I finally was able to narrow down the exact process on how to dispose or re-title this abandoned car:

1) if you happen to know how to track down the last owner of the vehicle, send him/her a registered letter asking either to come to pick up the vehicle, or to sign the title over to you

2) if you do not get a reply, call the police as suggested by @Dale Hensley . Police will tag the vehicle as abandoned and attempt to contact the owner.

3) at that point the vehicle could be sold at an auction and if nobody wants buys it, you can follow the writ-of-mandamus route to take possession of it.

Hope this can help other fellow investors that might run into a similar issue

after several months of dealing with the MVA and local Town Court, I finally was able to narrow down the exact process on how to dispose or re-title this abandoned car:

1) if you happen to know how to track down the last owner of the vehicle, send him/her a registered letter asking either to come to pick up the vehicle, or to sign the title over to you

2) if you do not get a reply, call the police as suggested by @Dale Hensley above. Police will tag the vehicle as abandoned and attempt to contact the owner. 

3) at that point the vehicle could be sold at an auction and if nobody wants buys it, you can follow the writ-of-mandamus route to take possession of it.

Hope this can help other fellow investors that might run into a similar issue

Mimmo

Good afternoon fellow investors.

is any of you familiar with the writ of mandamus? this is related to one of my previous posts regarding a car that was left in the garage of a property that we purchased for a flip. After wasting lots of time with a local MVA, we have lately been told that the right path to follow is to file a writ of mandamus with the local circuit court, that eventually will need to be reviewed by a judge. Unfortunately, other than several samples printed on law books, the local circuit court does not have a form / template that we can use. If you are familiar with this process, and or have a template to use, please share with us.

Thank you in advance and God bless.

Mimmo La Marra

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443-629-8771

I am currently rehabbing a property in Baltimore County. The exterior is in formstone and needs some clean up. Has anybody ever pressure washed formstones? any potential issues with doing it?

Thank you,

GOD bless!

Mimmo.

This is a very desirable area, suitable for couples and young families. The basement is pretty large... about 800 SF , not including the bathroom, laundry and mechanical/storage room. It has a nice layout. Adjacent to the property, RYAN homes is building new homes which will start  from 430k. I plan to put mine on the market around 270k (full rehab - 3 bathrooms, 2 baths 2100SF). 

I am thinking about putting a wet bar in the basement of the property I am rehabbing. Do you think it would be a waste of money, or it could be a good resale value? has any of you done it?

 THANK YOU Dale!

thank you everyone for your input. I will keep you posted on how I will end up handling this.

Mimmo La Marra

443-629-8771

 Yes. As is and all included. The problem is that one of the guy that was living on the property was renting the garage to a friend for him to use as a shop to fix that car. So technically the car should not be included