How many cars can you sell in Massachusetts without a dealers license?

Answer 1

Under the Massachusetts law, a dealer is anyone who sells four or more vehicles in a 12 month period.... So if your NOT a Dealer and you sell 4 or more cars it's considered a MISDEMEANOR... SORRY....

Answer 2

In most states, the limit is ZERO if you intend to profit from it.

The stated limits are often 5 per year. But enforcement is often next to impossible as long as you arent running a car lot out of your yard.

There is no computer going to "catch" you if you happen to sell 6 cars in a 12 month period.

However, if a person at the local DMV office sees a bunch of people buying cars from you and remembers you, they might look it up and catch you that way.

Penalities would likely be zero. They would push you to become licensed to stop dealing so many cars.

Whoever wrote all above this is uninformed.

There IS a computer to track you. Each state has programs that flag the number of cars titleded by an individual. So when an individual reached the maximum allowed, it may be sent to an investigator. The DMV investigators are also constantly checking Craigslist for duplicate ads by individuals. How? They track by telephone number.

Don't be so foolish as to violate the laws of your state. Educate yourself don't believe everythinng you read on sites like this.

And don't consider leaving your name off the title when you purchase it from an individual so you can put the next buyer on it. That's called an "open title" and is illegal. It caused tax evasion brecause people doing this are avoiding payment of fees and sales taxes on their purchase.

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Despite what krazycarguy says, my answer is 100% correct and I was a curbstone car dealer for 15+ years.

I went many years without a license but pretended I did and the state never caught me. Open titles are risky for a licensed dealer but I did a number of those before the penalties got so bad in my state.

The bottom line is worry about making money on the cars you sell. If you can make $800-1200 per car, after 5 cars, you've got $5k profit to decide if you want to get a license or risk it.

I risked it a lot of years because the bottom line is, and I got this DIRECT for a higher up in the dealer department of my state, if you begin to cause a problem, they will encourage compliance. You arent going to jail for selling 7 cars in a year. And you wont get huge fines unless you repeatedly ignore things like "cease & desist" orders.

I will admit that in my area, curbing cars is harder than it was for a long time. But, Ive long since been out of it. The internet is the new street corner and thats where a lot of curbing gets done.

My brother bought his son a car and he bought from a curbstoner who lied about selling it for his sister or some crap.

The guy cant be caught because nobody has anything on him. Except a throwaway cell phone #.