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Old 10-08-2010, 01:50 PM
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Default leaving car up north

This has to have been discussed somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. We will be snowbirds starting this November. For at least this 1st year, we think we now want to leave one car in Ohio - could arrange for someone to start it up and drive it a little bit while we're gone, and can use it ourselves for a week or two in December.

Our big concern is that we will want 2 cars back here next summer, or at least want to see how it works out once we're both not working and in Ohio - we do a lot of different stuff and there are no golf cart paths here!

Anyway, we plan to be Florida residents and will be transferring the title and registering one of the cars in Florida. Can we legally be Florida residents if we leave one car registered in Ohio? We know we have to spend 1 day more than 6 mos. in Florida. We're both on the title of our Villages home. We are not married, and I am the titled owner of the car we hope to leave in Ohio.

Does anyone know or can point me in the right direction? I found the Florida website but not the section where it might cover this situation.