Fluther: Where do you keep the title to your car?

Where do you keep the title to your car?

Asked by elbanditoroso (33157

) April 4th, 2019
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Mine is in a corner of a desk drawer, near my passport.

A friend was telling me that keeping it at home is not safe; if the house were robbed and the title stolen, my car title would enable the thief to sell my car.

He was suggesting I get a safe deposit box.

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I have safe bolted to the floor in one of my closets; passport, car title, insurance policies and birth certificate.

Tropical_Willie (31124

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In a file cabinet in my house. There’s only so much one can worry about and I have good insurance.

janbb (62874

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Fireproof safe.

gondwanalon (22866

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Mine is in a drawer similar to yours @elbanditoroso . It has the pink slips, kids birth certificates, and my passport.

zenvelo (39418

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I shove it into a file marked “car title” that has a bunch of things (dog registrations and records from about six dogs, roof guaranties from three houses, owners manual from a lawn mower I left in Seattle 25 years ago and a lot of other things; it’s a pretty fat file) in it.

Like @janbb, I am just not going to stress about everything.

canidmajor (21233

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In the house, in a file cabinet.

kritiper (25757

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I have a fireproof safe but the car titles are on a (messy) file cabinet.

LuckyGuy (43690

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I have a go bag since I’ve been through a fire before. Thinking of getting a safety deposit box after my atty visit for my important papers now that I’m getting older though.

KNOWITALL (29688

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I have so much pointless an uninteresting (especially to thieves) paper in my house that I doubt they could find where it is amongst all my papers.

Zaku (30354

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In a bank lockbox.

Bill1939 (10755

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I kept it in my glove compartment. Now I know to keep it at home in a fireproof safe nailed to the floor under the bed, near my Rottweiler. Thanks, Fluther.

joeschmo (1396

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@joeschmo, you are welcome to stash it in my dead dog file if you like. :-)

canidmajor (21233

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In a ~~fireproof~~ fire resistant safe. Getting a duplicate title is not that big of a deal though.

ARE_you_kidding_me (20021

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Fireproof and fire-resistant are synonyms, like flammable and inflammable.

joeschmo (1396

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In some file somewhere.

If lost, not a big deal. Just write to the state and get a replacement.

jca2 (16266

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I used to keep all that type of stuff in a shoe box. I lost all of it in my first flood though. I guess I didn’t learn much, because now I just a have a new shoebox, and way less important documents…

MrGrimm888 (19001

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Thieves who break into houses usually aren’t doing a thorough enough search to find your car’s title. They look around your bed for cash and guns, the dresser for jewelry and cash, maybe the cookie jar and sugar bowel, and that’s about it. They’re in too much of a hurry for anything else.
Your friend may be excessively paranoid.

kritiper (25757

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^Good points. Nowadays people should probably worry more about cyber security, as far as documents go…

MrGrimm888 (19001

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