Visit the Motor Vehicle Main Office

or State Tax Commissioner located at

• 4125 Welcome All Rd Sw. Atlanta, Ga 30349

This is the only place in Georgia that you can walk up to a counter and immediately receive a new title in hand.

It costs $18 and usually takes about 30 mins or less.

When Georgia requires a title

Georgia exempts one group of vehicles from needing a certificate of title at all: those with a model year before 1986 (O.C.G.A. § 40-3-4(14)(A)). It is a fixed model year, not a rolling age — a 1985 car is exempt and always will be, and a 1986 car never becomes exempt no matter how old it gets. For everything 1986 and later we collect a title when we buy, because newer cars are more likely to have a lien on them. A lien is when someone still owes money on a vehicle and has to finish paying the vehicle off before the lien holder will release the title.

Title pawn takes your title for a reason

The whole point of a title pawn company taking your title is so you can’t sell it.

If you have a lien because of a title pawn than you would have to pay that lien off and get the title back before we can buy the car.

Basically we don’t like to buy cars without the title.

Too many bad things can happen when you go around buying cars without the title. I’ve had a few close calls myself and don’t want to make those mistakes again.