Renters Left a Car on my Property How do I get a Certificate of Authority To Dispose of the Vehicle.
I get a lot of calls from property owners with an old junk car that was left on their property 
from a tenant. I always advise the property owners the same thing. You have to do a certificate of authority also known as a COA. These are very easy to do and allow you to legally dispose of a vehicle, which is abandoned on your property. Once a COA is done the vehicle can never be put back on the road it is marked as salvage. This is a legal way of obtaining the authority to dispose of the vehicle. Once your COA comes in from the state we can accept this in place of a title.
I have heard that a few people have placed a small claim civil suit on the former residents that abandoned a vehicle on their property and the civil judge has issued or judged that the owner of the property has rights to this vehicle but I myself have never experienced this.
I can remove these without you going through any of this? Yes but we will have to remove the vehicle and place it into a state approved storage lot. If I do this I cannot pay anything for the vehicle. The storage lot simply pays my company for a tow. We are not able to retain the vehicle once it is placed in storage. By state law it must be auctioned off.
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More Information From Texas on Certificate of Authority
More from the State of Texas on Certificate of Authority. There is a Certificate of Authority form located here.
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