What are Florida laws on hiding a vehicle that the repo people are trying to find?

Answer 1

You, like many others who are facing repossession may TRY to hide the vehicle. I stress the word "try" because of the industry that has risen out of this activity. In the event you do TRY to do this, a team of spotters and skip tracers will begin to open up every aspect of your life in the process of discovering where it is hidden. Cameras you do not see and would not recognize will begin "looking" for vehicle, and when it is found will send an automatic report back to the agency with the vehicle's location. The phone calls will begin, first to you, then to the references you listed on the loan application, then to your family and neighbors, and your place of employment. These calls will continue for some time and will come in at least once a day at the most inconvenient times. Changing your phone numbers will do not good, as moderately skilled skip tracers find it quite easy to obtain cell phone and even unpublished landline numbers. Your neighbors will see the tow truck prowling past your home at least twice a week. In the vast majority of cases, the vehicle will be found, after all, what is the point of hiding it if you do not intend to keep it, and in keeping it use it? So, one evening, when you feel safe, you take it out of hiding and drive the family down to the Walmart or Piggly Wiggly to get some ice cream, only to walk out into the lot and find your car is no longer where you left it. Now you are standing there with your ice cream melting and you wondering what happened. So there is no question, what happened is your car was taken by a repossession agent, a person who has one purpose in his job and that is to find and secure vehicles that have essentially been stolen.

Give the vehicle up. It is a shorter less painful and less expensive road. In the event that you happened to be one of those very creative and willy people who can successfully stash the vehicle for an extended time, keep in mind that Florida is one of the states with the new law that prohibits you, who has one vehicle out for repossession, from obtaining registrations on any other vehicles. Also, in Florida, if you do not surrender the vehicle by the time the lender tires of chasing it, the lender can pursue criminal charges as well as judgment for legal relief against you.

Now, just giving up the vehicle should look a little more attractive.