I'm sure you have good reasons not to contact GP yourself and find out where in the system your paperwork is, as I've suggested in the past. I simply don't understand what those reasons are.
Because that's *two* owners ago as I understand it, and a big part of why this deal's so sketchy -- if you were GP and I called you, would you seriously not just hang up on me? I need Couch to come through, afaic, before GP will even take my calls. If that title needs to pass through a third party to get from GP to me, then that third party is Couch, and if they're not forthcoming on the title, then how can anyone expect *me* to get it from GP based on hearsay? After promising title for 9 months, afaic they're the ones need to make good, not send me on a wild third-party goose chase to GP. Why I paid what I did for the HMMH I thought I bought, is that *I* wouldn't have to spend months on end chasing down the title, or I'd have never paid that much for the HMMH to begin with, couldn't be more unhappy about that deception on Jay's part, now, because rewind the calendar to last April and I was told the clear title was sitting on his desk, which was apparently never the case despite what I was told. Or certainly I'd have that title signed over to me by now, especially considering that was my clear expectation in exchange for my $35K.
Maybe if someone, somehow, managed to steal one of mine I'd worry a bit about lacking absolute proof of ownership, but as it is I'm not losing any sleep over paperwork. I consider them mine, since I paid for them.
Until a free & clear title's in your hand, you're subject to the seller coming back against you 9 months later and saying, amongst other BS, that you owe $135 for battery charging or some other such absurd bullcrap. Of all the other BS that I'm faced with for trusting Couch on this deal, refusing tens of thousands of dollars from me to do actual work, and petulantly insisting on $135 for battery charging when I'm upset that work didn't get done and just want my truck back, is totally worth losing sleep over even if I'm completely misguided that it'll help anyone else. It WILL make me feel better for passing along my personal experience of being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous, fraudulent operator in this niche market, even if I'm out both FLUs I mistakenly assumed I owned.
If you really think I'm in the wrong here, then please do make the effort to convince me before I re-dedicate my life to trashing Couch's reputation up and down the Internet from here to eternity, because (and this is the least of my issues w/ them) instead of a title all you get is a bill for $135 to charge a battery. Please don't try to justify anything else about this situation, until you've convinced me that $135 to charge a battery makes Jay anything but a charlatan, my attorney will defend me for saying that because he agrees it's "prima facie" or whatevs.
The latest promise I've been given, is I'll have the HMMH title tomorrow. I'd rather have my SEE. In the unlikely event either actually happens, then new year's champagne all around on me, OK? Even if you're buying, I'm still going to tell my story to anyone who'll listen, because I can't abide being treated like some sort of neophyte chump when this is hardly my first rodeo, but this is ridiculous beyond the point I really think I need to explain myself -- you sold me a used vehicle based on your promise of having title, nine months later I complain you haven't come through with that title, your response is a $135 bill for battery charging? Are you seriously taking Jay's side on this?
Maybe there's other solutions, but I'd rather the a-hole who cashed my check for $35K made good on his promise so I didn't have to pursue this further, let alone resort to Plan B and try getting title from GP whom I've never dealt with. Because it's frankly easier to be honest about my experience in a very public manner so the seller will do the right thing, than try to do an end-run around him w/ GP who doesn't know me from next Tuesday, and I won't believe there even *is* a title until I have it in my hand. Part of paying $35K for the HMMH was me not having to deal with anyone but the seller who promised me a title, to obtain said title. I don't understand how you think it falls to ME to get a title from GP whom I've never dealt with, when the seller assured me I wouldn't need to because he was on the level ???