My in law MB lease is up on their car, can they sell to carvana/carmax if the buyout is better than MBFS?

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Third Party Lease Buyout

I recently went through a third-party lease buyout in California. I often see the question on how this is done so I wrote a quick document of my experience: I think the main one I hear is how to avoid paying sales tax twice when selling to a private party. This can be avoided (in CA) by (a) selling you lease within 10 days of acquiring the title from the lessor (b) applying and being approved for a CDTFA-111 from the CDTFA. Note, if you sell to a dealer, the leasing company transfer the ti…

Possible to not pay double sales tax here?

So I just found out about volkswagens special price when buying out to a dealer. I had a deal lined up with carvana to sell my lease out and pocket a little bit of money. The dealer buyout price was a whopping 4k over my residual, which messed up that deal. So my idea was to just buy it out myself from volkswagen, then turn around and sell it to carvana once I have the title. The issue is I assume they are going to collect sales tax when I go in to purchase it, which will cut the profits in …

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