About MyCarPapers
MyCarPapers started from a simple frustration: the forms around a car sale are scattered across fifty-one state agencies, and every one of them names things a little differently. A "tag" in one state is a "plate" in the next. Some states publish their own bill of sale, others accept any written one, and a few want it notarized in certain cases. People end up searching the same questions over and over.
We build free tools that produce the documents themselves, and guides that explain what happens to those documents once you hand them over.
What's on the site
- Document tools. Bill of sale generators for cars, boats, trailers, motorcycles, RVs, ATVs, horses and general items, plus 14 state versions with the state's own requirements built in.
- Checklists and finders. A title transfer checklist, a registration renewal finder, a driving record (MVR) finder, a license points checker, a commercial vehicle checker, a custom plate designer and a VIN decoder.
- State guides. Title replacement and transfer guides for 16 states, license plate record rules for 24 states, and state pages for driving records and renewals.
Who's behind it
MyCarPapers is written and maintained by Mohamed Skhiri, who researches each rule, writes each page and builds the tools. Every page shows who wrote it and when it was last checked against its sources.
How we research a page
Every rule on the site comes from the agency that sets it: a state DMV, motor vehicle division, department of revenue or licensing agency, a state statute, or a federal regulation. The site links to well over 250 official pages and forms, and each guide lists its own sources at the bottom. When we can't confirm a fee or a form from an official source, we say so on the page instead of repeating a figure from another website.
Forms and fees change. Each guide carries the date it was last checked, and when an agency revises a form, we update the page and its date.
How we test the tools
The tools run entirely in your browser. Before a tool goes live, we check its output against real cases: VINs with known check digits, sample sales in each state, points totals at each state's suspension thresholds, and printouts on letter paper. When a state's rule changes, the tool's data changes with it.
What we promise
- Official sources only. Rules come from state motor vehicle and revenue agencies and from federal regulations. We link the source on the page.
- Your data stays with you. Our tools run in your browser. We don't collect what you type into them; our privacy policy has the details.
- No pretending. We're not a government site, we can't file anything for you, and our pages are general information, not legal advice, as our terms of use explain.
- No record selling. We don't sell or look up anyone's personal vehicle or driver records. Our plate and record guides explain the official routes and the privacy laws around them.
- Corrections are welcome. If a rule has changed or we got something wrong, tell us and we'll check it against the source and fix it.
How we're funded
The tools are free to use. If we add advertising in the future, it will be clearly labeled and kept separate from the tools and from what we write.
Read our editorial policy for how pages are researched and updated, or contact us at contact@mycarpapers.com.