Sell your car in Jonesboro: running, broken down or high-mileage
Ask for an offer on your car or truck, high miles welcome, and we'll pick it up free at your address anywhere in Craighead County or the towns just beyond it. Payment happens when you hand over the keys.
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Closing out the car with Craighead County
- Tell the Craighead County Assessor. The office asks you to contact it when you sell anything listed on your assessment: call (870) 933-4570 or go to 511 South Union, Room 130.
- Pay whatever is already billed. The County Collector takes payment at 511 Union Street, Suite 107, in Jonesboro or at its Lake City office, 107 Cobean. Taxes are due October 15 each year; after that, the collector adds a 10% penalty.
- If you buy another car, assess it. The assessor lists 60 days as the time to assess a newly bought vehicle.
Where we pick up around Jonesboro
Free pickup covers every address in Jonesboro and Lake City, and it reaches past the county line to Paragould and down Highway 63 to Trumann. Harrisburg, Brookland, Bono, Bay and the county roads between the towns are covered too. Pickup can be scheduled for before a lease ends or a move.
Parked at A-State? Take the parking permit off before the car goes. Arkansas State's parking rules say a permit must be removed before the vehicle is sold, and whoever it's registered to is responsible for every citation written to a car that displays it. The permit can move to your next car without contacting Parking Services; just update your primary vehicle in Parking eBiz.
Craighead County's two revenue offices
What most people call the Arkansas DMV is the DFA's Office of Motor Vehicle, and in person you deal with it at a State Revenue Office. Craighead County has two: the Jonesboro Revenue Office at 206 Southwest Drive, Suite B (870-932-2716), and the Lake City Revenue Office in the courthouse at 107 Cobean Street (870-237-4421). Both are open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays.
If your title is lost, either office will take your application for a replacement. Start that before you book the pickup.
Cash for your car in Jonesboro
Would the city call your car inoperable? Sec. 30-1 of Jonesboro's code says yes if it's dismantled, damaged, or can't start or move under its own power. Code Enforcement looks for two or more flat tires, a missing wheel, a hood raised or missing for more than three days, weeds or grass grown up around it, or major parts such as the windshield glass, steering wheel or drive train missing or too damaged for the car to be of use. Once a car is found inoperable, the owner has 30 days to repair it or remove it from the property.
Removal doesn't have to cost you anything. Old, wrecked and salvage-title cars get an offer in the condition they're in, and so do cars that no longer run; pickup is free either way. Cash for junk cars in Jonesboro goes through our junk-car offer; on the form, note anything from the city's list, such as flat tires or a missing wheel.
If Code Enforcement has started the 30-day clock and it's the engine or transmission that quit, selling a car with a seized or blown engine and selling a car whose transmission slips or has no reverse show whether a repair is worth it before you pay for one. Accident damage is covered in selling a wrecked car.
Where to meet a buyer, and where old tires go
- •Jonesboro has five Swap Spots, open 24 hours a day, for handing over things bought or sold online: police headquarters at 1001 S. Caraway Rd., which has 24-hour video surveillance, the Justice Complex at 410 W. Washington Ave., and fire stations on E. Johnson Ave., W. Nettleton Ave. and Brazos St. No officer or firefighter watches the exchange (Jonesboro Police Department)
- •City residents can take up to four small tires a month free of charge to Legacy Landfill, run by the Craighead County Solid Waste Disposal Authority; large tires are $3.00 each and extra-large tires $30.00 (City of Jonesboro)
Asked by Jonesboro sellers
Will Craighead County still tax me on a car I've sold?
Yes, for any year it was on your assessment as of May 31. The Craighead County Assessor's office says taxes are not pro-rated: you pay on the personal property you have listed as of May 31 each year, and each year's assessment is billed the following year. Selling partway through the year doesn't shrink that year's bill.
My car broke down on the A-State campus. How long can it stay there?
Not long. A-State's parking regulations treat a car left parked and unmoved for two weeks as abandoned, and abandoned cars are towed at the owner's expense. The same rules say a disabled car, whether from a dead battery, an empty tank or lost keys, must be reported right away to Parking Services (870-972-2945) or University Police (870-972-2093), with its exact location. If you'd rather sell it than fix it, ask for the offer before the two weeks are up.
Does the city's inoperable-vehicle rule cover a car I keep in the garage?
No. Sec. 30-1 exempts vehicles stored in a garage, completely screened from public view. A car parked outside, in a driveway or on the lawn, doesn't get that exemption.
I live in Paragould or Trumann. Is there a revenue office closer than Jonesboro's?
Yes. Paragould's is in the Greene County Courthouse at 320 W. Court St., Room 100 (870-236-8755), and it closes at 4:30 p.m. on weekdays. Trumann's, which serves Poinsett County, is at 809 West Main Street, Suite B (870-483-7227), open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
All of these revenue offices follow the same state rules for signing over a title, and our Arkansas selling page explains them.