Well we sold it yesterday, for a price we are happy with. The guy who ended up buying it, had messaged on FB asking for a pic of the interior and a video of it running. Since it's my dad's truck and I don't live there, I couldn't just walk outside and snap pics or a video. So I said I'll see if I can do that sometime (I never did). About a week after that he messaged with an offer. It wasn't a crazy lowball offer like others had sent, so I said yeah we'd be willing to entertain that but you'd need to come see it first. He's about 80 miles away. So we messaged a bit more, he came yesterday with someone to drive his car home, and gave the same amount he offered that we were happy with. I'm glad I didn't block him right away for sending an offer without looking at it, but that was only because his offer wasn't a lowball.. it was more than we would have accepted.

We are in CA and the release of liability is something we've thought about too. Part of the title that the seller detatches, contains the release of liability form that includes the seller, buyer information, the sale price, and of course has the vehicle plate and VIN. It can either be mailed or done online. We did it online. The website did say that the process is only complete once the new owner transfers title. We can't do anything about that obviously. It also occurs to me that there is no requirement that we, the seller, verify that the buyer's info is accurate. He could say his name is Bill Smith and he lives at 123 Main Street, how are we to know whether that's accurate. The form just says that we fill it out with the best of our knowledge or something to that effect. He might never transfer title into his name. I know when so many cars are sold all the time, that's got to be a common thing to do. I certainly hope the guy doesn't rack up any tickets with it. But who knows.

Edit to add the text from the CA DMV website about the release of liability. So I guess we're done.