What this Atlanta seller's guide is and how it earns money
Sell My Car Atlanta is a set of plain guides for Atlanta owners who want to sell a car, and each guide cites the Georgia or local agency that sets the rule. The site does not buy cars. When you want a price, the offer button takes you to a partner buyer, and the offer you get there is that buyer's own.
What the guides cover and who they are written for
The pages take on the questions an Atlanta owner meets once a car has to go: how to sign over a Georgia title, what happens when the buyer reaches the county tag office, whether the metro emissions inspection matters for the sale, and what to do about a lost title, a lender on the title or a car that will not start. They are written for the owner, or the family member, who has to sell the car, whatever shape it is in.
With a buyer lined up, begin with the Georgia seller paperwork; still deciding, read the comparison of selling routes.
Where this site's money comes from
Every guide carries a button that opens the partner buyer's website, where you can request an instant offer. If you accept that offer and the referred sale completes, the buyer pays this site a referral fee. If no sale completes, no fee is owed. You never pay this site anything.
The buyer sets the amount, the pickup and the conditions on its own terms. This site has no say in the figure and makes no promise about what a car will bring. The guide to the buyer's process sets out its published steps.
What Sell My Car Atlanta is not
It is not a car dealer. It is not a broker, and it is not a buying service that takes vehicles in or bargains for you. It is not a government office either. Georgia titles and tags run through the Department of Revenue's Motor Vehicle Division and your county tag office, which in Atlanta means the Fulton County or DeKalb County Tax Commissioner. The guides send you to those offices; they cannot file anything in your place.
Source: Georgia DOR: county tag offices; Georgia DOR: motor vehicles.
How a guide is researched and kept current
Each guide is built from the agency's own pages: the Department of Revenue, the state emissions program, the City of Atlanta, the county tax commissioners, or a federal rule such as the odometer disclosure regulation. Rules are quoted word for word inside quotation marks, and the source line under each section links the page that holds those words. The partner buyer's pages are cited for its own process only, never for Georgia law.
Agencies revise their pages without warning, so each guide shows, under its opening paragraph, the date its sources were last re-checked. A number that moves, such as a tax rate or a fee, is given with the date it was read.
Report a mistake
If a guide quotes a rule that has since changed, or a step does not match what you found at your tag office, write to help@sellmycar