Who runs this Riverside County site, and how its guides are made

Family owned and operated, with Samuel Marks as owner

The people behind these pages run Sell My Car Riverside County as a family, and the owner is Samuel Marks. The business buys cars here in the county. If reading about the business has you thinking of selling to it, describe your car on the request page and a person phones you back, or skip the form and dial (951) 404-1640 to talk it through.

A seller's guide built on agency pages

The guides cover the steps a sale in Riverside County runs into: signing the California title, filing the release of liability with the DMV, getting a smog certificate, clearing a tow, and selling a car that no longer runs. When a rule belongs to one city, such as a police tow release, the guide names that city rather than treating the whole county as one place.

Who the pages are for

They are written for someone in Corona, Temecula, Moreno Valley, Palm Springs, Blythe or anywhere between who owns a car and wants it gone. Often that car is old, will not start, sits in a tow yard, or has lost its title, and one wrong step can cost a fee or leave later tickets in your name. If you are unsure where to begin, open the seller paperwork guide.

How pages are researched and kept current

Each rule, fee, deadline and form number on a guide is taken from a page the responsible agency publishes, such as the DMV, the Bureau of Automotive Repair or the Riverside County Sheriff. Passages set in quotation marks are copied exactly, and before a guide goes up a script fetches every source and confirms each quote is still there. Agencies change their fees and forms, so the sources are read again over time. Under the opening paragraph of every guide, a short line gives the date its sources were last re-checked.

Not a government office

This site is not the DMV, the Sheriff or a city hall. It cannot process a form, collect a DMV fee, release a towed car or pull up a vehicle record. That work goes to the agency, starting with the California DMV, and each guide links the office that handles its step.

Source: California DMV.

Report an error

If a guide says something its agency page does not, or a link has broken, email help@sellmycarriversidecounty.com with the page, the sentence and where the agency says otherwise. A fix goes in once the agency's own page supports it. The contact page lists every way to reach the business.