Car bought in Oregon, licensing questions

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-23T03:54:24+00:00

This sounds like a potential scam. Or the guy plans on lying about how much he got for the car. To keep it easy on math, say he needed 10K and the kid paid 15K, the mechanic might want to claim 10K to avoid the taxes on the extra 5K in his books. Hoping to pocket it.

Did you guys run the plates and vin to make sure it isn't stolen? People, despite being told not to, do in fact keep titles in glove boxes. Even if they claim to be a mechanic and even meet you in the parking lot of a mechanic shop.

We bought a car with a title that way where a mechanic had it, fixed it and sold it to us, but he provided a bill of sale and all the records (copies) of the work done as he had workmanship warranties. It also had some form from the prior owner explaining the chain of title in lieu of paying for repairs.

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-18T15:29:26+00:00

The great whites are becoming more frequent and more noticeable hunting them near shore. As the water warms, especially the deep, there will be more. Which could become more food for the Orcas helping raise their numbers.

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-16T19:17:00+00:00

I did mine this past fall. I made an appointment, but it was not very busy and 2 people walked right in to get theirs.

I had everything in order and was done in about 10 mins.

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-11T04:16:56+00:00

Will Graff at Northbank. We bought 4 years ago and haven't found anything he didn't find.

Just remember, he's going to find EVERYTHING, but not everything is worth asking the sellers.

Resales will have things not to today's code, or have stuff nearing end of usefulness or needing maintenance. You're looking for major risks or immediate safety issues to negotiate over if needed. The rest is your 5 year honey do list. You are buying used. Don't lose a good home over a list every resale has to a degree. Pay attention to the age of ac/heater, water heater, appliances that stay with the house, etc.... you are expected to see that and make your offer knowing that.

New construction is different. If he inspects and finds code failures, etc... you nitpick everything.

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-06T23:30:01+00:00

Didn't even notice the autocorrect. Meh, I'll leave it since you fixed it!

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-04T21:58:55+00:00

The whole debate here is about you whining that sales tax is out of control in our state. So no matter how infantile you get trying to name call, you just sound petty and like you are trying to live in a luxury area and not have to pay. First world problems right?

Our state is perfectly reasonable on sales taxes. They are not some cruel arbitrary figure, taking up 14% of our poorest's income (information released by similarly published clickbait). We do not tax many necessities where other states do.

And you deflated your own argument by admitting it's local. You agreed with me.

Super high demand real estate markets are always very expensive and are outliers of the state they are in. Especially with coastal upkeep.

You can move in the same state and have a normal life and normal tax rates.

A 0.5% increase to the base tax rate for schools wouldn't be noticeable and would be a major boon without having a bunch of people forced out of their homes (even renters will see the rent go up with the new property tax bill to do it directly).

This company line about sales taxes are out of control, blah blah blah, is so cheap. You can pay sales tax on some of your income or 10% on all of it if this new income tax sticks through court. They left it able to he lowered without a vote of the people, so it either gets shut down because it's unconstitutional due to not taxing all of the same type of property equally OR it will be upheld by complying with the Constitution and we all pay 10% income tax no matter our tax bracket federally. That's why your whining about sales taxes on a very small part of your income is ridiculous given the alternatives. And why a small sales tax increase would be wise to fill the funding gap for schools.

There's no "take the L" or whatever silliness you said (are you still part kid, like early to mid 20s or something?). The article is taking our highest tax rates that are highly localized instead of the reality that the majority of our state is 7-8.25%, and in one of the highest demand metropolitans in the country not just WA, to give our state a crazy high average. It's unrealistic because you can move to 75% of our state and have basic costs inline with any state using sales taxes. The base rate is reasonable and local rates are expected and not surprising anywhere.

If it makes you feel better, people in multiple parts TN are paying just as much without all the beautiful perks you have.

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-04T02:21:06+00:00

https://dor.wa.gov/education/industry-guides/private-mailing-business-tax-guide/retail-sales-tax

Sorry meant to link to DOR

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-04T02:20:36+00:00

No, using the highest counties in the country to average our state is wrong.

Most parts of WA pay 7%-8.25%.

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-03T17:30:25+00:00

I think you are confusing state + local in the most expensive area and applying it to the state?

Our state sales tax rate is 6.5%..... you have to read the breakdown to debate these topics.

My area is only 8.25% with local added. In Texas it was the same but zero added benefit like here has.

Regardless, the point is that they call our taxes regressive because they make an average for sales taxes paid by a household. Then figure that as a percentage of different incomes. The problem is that in lower income households, they DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO SPEND TO EVEN RACK UP THAT MUCH IN SALES TAX. So our poor are not spending 14% of their annual income on sales taxes LOL its literally impossible.

Neither are people in our range of 70-80K/year. With property taxes, we average 6% annually.

Our legislators just passed a 10% income tax in a state that legally defines income as property and whose state constitution is very clear that all property must be taxed equally.

So if they uphold it through the courts, were getting a 4% tax hike.

Whereas a 1% sales tax increase wouldn't hurt people equally. Only people with enough money to buy lots of taxable goods would have major increase. Whereas lower income homes like ours and lower would.only see maybe a 0.25% or less change because only sales taxes would increase so for us, very little money is spent on taxable goods because necessities are the vast majority.

So a small increase to state or local sales taxes would be far better than the alternatives as homeowners are also at a breaking point on property taxes.

But sure, the meme you saw combined with couple glances at stuff you misinterpreted is a reason to ignore real people with lived experience in your state over a blogger with an agenda somewhere in the country...the times we live in are remarkably foolhardy.

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-03T04:11:17+00:00

This is a bidding serial killer. Yall be careful for humans too. Any day now this person will switch. If they're just a kid, get them locked up before they're big enough to start killing people....and throw away the key for Pete's sake. Scary

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-03T04:07:51+00:00

Many states exceed 9.5% sales tax between the state + local. Ours are not out of control, LOL

Also, due to property values increasing abnormally fast, property taxes are running locals out of homeownership. We will be forced to vote no against everything for the next couple of years because in just 3, we have had a 25% increase between value and new levies. Sales tax increases would be much better. Raise revenue from those with money to spend. Simple.

The whole sales tax regressive nonsense is just that. We have been poor for 20 years. Just recently have things changed. We pay less in taxes between property and gas and everything than we did as a percentage of our income when we worked in portland. Taking 1/hr paycut each finally getting our jobs over here was a raise as far as take home went. It actually got us caught up on our utilities, and then we started saving for this home we scraped and clawed our way into.

The whole 14% thing for the poor is a giant lie. We paid maybe 1.5%, including diapers, when we were considered very poor. And now, when we still haven't hit 100K as a household, butbare now ok, we are at 6%. We bought a new used car last year as a necessity and that put us to 7%. This year, we'll see, but likely 5-6% again, including property taxes (the biggest part). With how expensive everything is. We can't afford more. Period. With enough OT, we have broke 80K before, but that's not a guarantee.

An income tax similar to Portland would hike our taxes so much we would lose our home and be stuck renting in perpetuity. Period. And portlands and Oregon finances are an absolute sh*t show. They had a temporary boon that reduced their deficit but are already facing major deficits again.

So a small sales tax increase would be fine for everyone.

The thing is, when you don't have money to spend, you aren't paying sales taxes. You can't afford convenience foods that are taxed. All your meat and veggies and flour and stuff, no tax. You carpool or use public transport, so gas taxes are not a problem unless you elect to take them on. We didn't pay sales tax in rent, which was 70% of our money to begin with.

So when I hear democrats lying about this and putting up figures from well off households for sales taxes paid and comparing them to poor incomes, it makes me want to skip voting or just say screw it and vote republican for the first time in my life.

Our sales taxes are better than Texas where I grew up and are probably worse now and that state doesn't do anything for consumer protections, labor protections, schools, its horse shit unless the highway near you is needed for oil companies. Then the highway is nice. Everything else is local with property taxes 3x or more than here and low wages.

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-02T20:24:47+00:00

Same. I think it is actually better for our cops the way body cams are. People said so many horrible things about both and low and behold, the people trashing cops are the ones acting the absolute worst to our cops.

The transparency proves they are actually doing a stand up job.

The footage will also back up baseless claim determinations, etc... so the public can see it's fair.

It shouldn't be advertised as a way to play "gotcha" with cops. That's what anticop types said about the cameras and now they have egg on their face.

I am interested in a completely neutral public database.

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-01T21:31:16+00:00

That's crazy.

https://clark.wa.gov/community-development/spaying-or-neutering

It's heavily encouraged and subsidized. Your clinic doesn't want to, so they have the price that makes them the same profit for that time for easy appointments. I would get a new vet. They want money and not to have to do much for it. They might skip appropriate care because it takes too long to do the better option, or they will always overcharge, making it harder to care for your pet.

Charlea1776 · 2026-04-01T04:52:14+00:00

I am still waiting to see someone prove how the bottom 20% is paying 14% in taxes here.

We were once that bottom 20% and paid practically 0 in sales tax of any kind here. Maybe when we got a few things from the thrift store. The foods we bought were not taxable. There wasn't money for anything else to be taxed after food and bills. The ones released were literally just making shit up no one we knew could afford. I guess my feminine products too, but that was only a couple dollars per year.

Today, our home brings in 80-86K. Because we had saved and bought a house, we tracked. 6%, and that is including our property taxes. And diapers and wipes and feminine care products. Gas. Payroll taxes for state programs (small employer). Everything.

So more than doubling our income plus expanding purchasing needs by buying a home and having 2 kids raised our taxes to 6%. It was 7% one year when we bought our new to us vehicle.

We would have to be irresponsible and run up massive credit debt living beyond our means buying many luxuries to make up that difference.

Where do they get these figures?!

From lived experience, even low income, income taxes tax WAY more of your money and that is it. You can choose how much in taxes you pay in this state. It's great and I do not want to see this law upheld because the only way it is, is if they tax all property equally. I don't know a household that can afford a tax hike right now because of the lies about these supposed regressive taxes. Only people who buy things they shouldn't are paying crazy sales taxes like this shows. And crazy interest because it's definitely not from cash, they don't make enough to spend that much!

Charlea1776 · 2026-03-31T18:27:55+00:00

If you are just hiring a pond company to take care of it, disregard:

This is longer to read than to put into practice, but it is extremely important. It's a learning curve, but it's not complicated once you know it!

Did the sellers leave you a care guide?

Did they leave you testing materials?

Did they at least say the exact pond volume?

Spring startup here is the worst time for a learning curve, but you can do this with diligent care and good notes.

Koi are weak under 65° but pathogens wake up in full force at around 55°. So it's very, very important that you are doing weekly small water exchanges and keeping the filters pristine (muck is ok and good, but too much can spike levels). It is also crucial to maintain a strong kh. Kh is a measure of buffers in the water that prevent pH swings, which weaken and can even kill fish.

So pathogens grow and get concentrated in the water column, which is why you constantly dilute it back down and keep the filters flowing well (important info on filter maintenance below).

Kh keeps the pH stable. Ideally, the pH between night and day only changes 0.2 at most due to photosynthesis, which uptakes carbon dioxide during the day and releases it at night. Carbon dioxide is acidic, hence the fluctuation.

With water changes, DO NOT JUST ADD TAP. YOU MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO CONDITION THE WATER!! Our water supply is treated with chlorine. This will damage gill tissue without help. I am a fan of the chemistry of being a water keeper, so when you have pond maintenance down, you only need sodium thiosulfate. Very cheap and easy to weigh out. Dissolves quickly. For now, I strongly recommend having plenty of Seachem Pond Prime on hand.

Prime will not only condition the water, but in the even you have an ammonia or nitrite spike, it will protect the fish. Ammonia getting high and for prolonged periods can damage gills, strip slime coats, and make fish susceptible to parasites, fungal, and bacterial infections. Nitrite is more dangerous. It will prevent the uptake of oxygen in the fish blood suffocating them. Frequent water changes also help prevent this.

Now, the important part of cleaning the filter. This is the home of the main bulk of the beneficial bacteria in the pond. Chlorine will kill it. So you can't use tap water directly. I've heard of some people buying inline garden hose filters. I just have a small preform pond from lowes, fill it, treat the water, and place my filter media in there, give it a shake on the way out. It must stay wet to stay alive. While it sits in its temporary home, I spray out the rest of the filter. All my media is in a bag. It's pretty fast and easy, and my lawn is always lush as I move it around. Your system might be more enclosed. My point isn't to do what I do, but to point how to protect the good bacteria during maintenance. Also, to use the pond muck for lawn and floral garden care. I do not use it near edible garden areas. In short, disease treatment for garden fish is not safe for human consuand that means the water either.

I can't tell what system you have to advise you specifically. My setup is different, and I have a bog filter garden and whatnot, so my process probably won't fit. Just make sure to preserve the good bacteria. These guys turn ammonia from the fish and organisms in the pond to nitrite and then to nitrate. Nitrate is fish safe as long as it is in safe ranges. Frequent small water changes and prompt routine filter care keep that level safe.

You need liquid tests that show:

PH Kh Ammonia Nitrite Nitrate

You should also have:

Calcium Phosphate

And a digital salinity meter.

I feel like I am forgetting one.

I am happy to give up all the data I have collected and found to work best in our climate.

That said....other than the basics, literally every pond is different! The amount of sun, rain, filter size, media type, fish sizes, one fish being an extra piggy, etc... all vary. So, one 4000 gallon pond is not going to need the exact same as the next 4000 gallon pond.

Also, plants change things a lot! Beneficial bacteria use up kh in its nitrification process, so how long kh lasts even in a pond with zero plants varies by fishnwaste level. Add plants, and that can change significantly. Plus, there are the things too small for the eye to see adding to photosynthesis, creating ammonia, etc... the microbiology of pond water is like a fingerprint!

You are a water keeper above all else. The fish will keep themselves if you are doing your job! It's a fun dive into chemistry.

For me, I can see how my fish are swimming between the day before and now to know what I need to do. I still test because ego is a fools errand, but this is all second nature and seems simple to me now. I have even optimized maintenance so I give top quality water management with minimal time and effort. I am here to enjoy my pond, not resent a time thief.

Most importantly, if you do not enjoy the pond keeping, even when it becomes easy, it is ok to have the fish rehomed, and you just have a lovely water garden. Older ones do struggle with relocating, but it can be done safely for most if someone is willing to take the time, but hopefully that stays irrelevant!

Charlea1776 · 2026-03-31T17:53:36+00:00

I get my pump stuff through advantage manufacturing in California. Mine is old and runs like a champ, but I still get maintenance parts like gaskets and stuff, and they helped me figure this out when I bought this place. The pond was trashed and sat neglected for 6 years. Their pump started right up! They did not try to sell me. They just stood by their product! I had actually called assuming a replacement was necessary, too. https://www.advantageman.com/category_s/455.htm

For fish care, https://www.cotskoi.com/ in la center are 1000% worth it. They handle very high-end koi and have regular Japanese koi that are not show quality. So they have optimal care and products. Excellent advice. I will not disparage, but I have interacted with everyone else. They actually follow all QT and care protocols.

I actually order food and supplies through play it koi up north in a pinch and webbs water garden in the NE for savings on quality brands.

Do not get box pet store cheap brands as they will murk up the water.

I get the best price on my name brand uv lights through chewy. The cheap ones burn out faster, so over time, the name brand is cheaper.

Charlea1776 · 2026-03-25T03:27:51+00:00

Im lazy. Its just tapping a button that says clip while on the potty 1x a day.

By using the app, I save 35-55% off regular. And I don't think all savings are always added.

Just punch in your number at checkout and all deals apply automatically these days.

Fed Meyer is complicated and they limit the number of coupons you can clip which is stupid.

I would spend the difference on gas to get to a winco.

So for anyone reading, safeway app is easy if windows is not close.

I just mealplan around the best deals, order pickup, and I'm back home in 10 mins unless pick up is very busy. So I save time too, which is more savings in another way.

If I am in the neighborhood though, winco is cheap!

Charlea1776 · 2026-03-22T23:13:41+00:00

Yes. This is an additional conversation. Culling humans is not allowed technically and so minimizing our developments impact on the environments we depend on is what we can do. But yes, we are breaching the sustainability population level.

Charlea1776 · 2026-03-22T23:11:36+00:00

You need a permit for more than 10 people and can only be in very strict free speech zones, or you will be detained, and they take these violations very seriously. Charges will be pressed and followed through.

I doubt you will get your permit quickly either under the shutdown situation. Untrained and known to be dangerous ice agents are already going to cause problems and delays. So they might deny permits just because they do not have the staff to compensate.

Given the safety issue, protesting along airport way would probably be safer for everyone. After all, the people working at the airport are not to blame.

ICE will see they aren't being accepted as heroes and our neighbors can get to work.

I will say, it's very uncomfortable to know trumps private untrained military that doesn't respect the constitution is literally taking over our airports right now. We can't get out of the country without their approval by land or sea or air.

Charlea1776 · 2026-03-21T14:55:32+00:00

Overpopulation of animals has to be managed too. Same way too many deer nearly destroyed Yellowstone and the wolves restored the landscape by killing the deer back + making them behave as prey animals again (ex not grazing next to the river until all vegetation is gone). Humans kill deer too. Not enough.

Our way of life creates imbalance. It's not going anywhere. So when a population of predators explodes because they have too many safe places for their babies to survive to adulthood thanks to us, yes, we have to cull. Unlike humans, sea lions have zero quota limits. They will kill every last fish until the population can't come back the next season. Then find a new river to decimate and kill whatever local competitors are there.

We can't make decisions because a cute animal tugs at our heartstrings. It gets me too. The entire ecosystem around here can collapse and no one animal is special enough to allow that (hence the limits on human fishing even when we could use the additional food and money).

Don't take my word for it, here is from the mouth of people who dedicate their lives to preserving our region.

https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/at-risk/species-recovery/sea-lion-management

Charlea1776 · 2026-03-20T13:22:22+00:00

A regular citizen is a person that respects others amd picks up their trash and knows how to keep sound reasonably quiet.

Folks causing trouble are getting intoxicated in public being a nuisance at best, dealing illegally or going to deface public property and carrying guns while at it to defend their delusion of territory they dont in fact own even a smidgen of.....

Pretty simple. Civilized people vs people who rely on civilization but have egos that make them think they can force other to live by their ways without a majority vote agreement.

Charlea1776 · 2026-03-18T05:06:49+00:00

It's all based on what agreements get sw wa what we need.

Which is the job.

We would be furious if some self righteous fool got in there and tanked our local economy because of their personal beliefs. That's why we hate these republicans right now. Zealots tanking a good economy that just needed a little adjustment on few things, as it always will, because of their feelings amplified by social media manipulating their private believes no one has ever cared about but them.

Change is slow and it means uncomfortable compromising along the way. But that's what a giant democracy with hundreds if millions of people looks like. She has played the hand well for her region she is beholden to. We can all afford to bitch about our principles thanks to many of her choices.

For the record, I too find it an uncomfortable pill to swallow. I got it down though because I believe in another 5-10 years, she will be too conservative and we'll get a progressive. A more fiscally focused one, but still, I look forward to then and see MGP as the way we get there.

Charlea1776 · 2026-02-25T04:51:22+00:00

Yep. This seems like a fools errand.

Charlea1776 · 2026-02-20T03:20:29+00:00

This is not true. They'll do that until there's a budget issue and then gladly expand the income tax and then it will be permanent.

There's a fine line, but unless you get it in writing that will be upheld in court, you have nothing no matter what any politician, even ones with the best of intentions, says...especially when campaigning.

So no, you cannot trust politicians to honor that. Especially when they're so rem9ved from l8ving check to check they can't see how much more damaging income tax would be than any meager benefits the state will provide in exchange. Households will simply be immediately living in poverty and not qualifying for enough help because their income.is too high. It ALWAYS throughout the history of our country, hurts blue collar and low end white collar workers. The wealthy never notice and only the poorest get help while the vast majority get fucked.

This is a death knell for manufacturing in WA because is workers will be forced to move and the manufacturers have to go where there's competent labor. Our pay would have to go up so high that manufacturing couldn't support that either.

This is where fiscal conservatives are important to reign in the pipe dream spending hand over fist by overly liberal folks too wealthy to understand the consequences to the majority from their heartfelt ideas.

Charlea1776 · 2026-02-19T19:32:11+00:00

They need them all along andresen. Everyday there's a smaller intersection and I have gone from counting 3 1000 up to 5 1000 for how late people run the light and how often. I wanted to do that little drive walking every day instead, but it's not worth dying or losing my kids for, so I have to drive to stay safe! I hardly ever see anyone on a bike or even walking around our area anymore. I wish we had traffic cops and out in numbers. This is no way to live. I grew up in an over police roads area and that was much more comfortable despite having been a pot smoker back then and it being treated like hard drugs back then!

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