Featured Technical Worst DMV experience ever

Must be dumb luck, but in 45 or so years of registering cars and motorcycles in 4 states including lost title/storage title/estate-probate/salvage etc. I've never had what I would consider a truly bad DMV experience, yeah lines and multiple visits once in a while, in fact I've gotten some great help and advice. They gatekeep because they are supposed to. I'd hope a form and some proof would be required to transfer a title out of a dead person's estate.

To milwscruffy's point, couple years back brought a MN salvage title in to transfer, the nice person at the South Milwaukee DMV gave me a form, a number to call in Madison, told me what to say and ask, and to not spend time driving in and waiting in line. The person who picked up the call told me exactly what forms to provide, how to address the envelope, who to call to set up inspection, etc. and the process only took about a week. Since then I've done a couple more, I messed one up (the AND or OR ownership thing) and I got a call from Madison asking if I was sure I wanted to do AND or OR ownership, the difference saved me a second transfer fee of around $175.00 so no complaints here.