If you sell five or more vehicles in a 12-month period, you may need a Class B dealer's license.

If you buy, sell, exchange, broker, lease or deal in salvageable parts of five or more vehicles, you may need a Class C dealer's license or Class D broker's license
 

Section 257.11 of the Michigan Vehicle Code defines a "dealer" as a person who does one or more of the following in a 12-month period:  (1) Engages in the business of purchasing, selling, exchanging, brokering, leasing or dealing in vehicles of a type required to be titled; (2) engages in the business of purchasing, selling, exchanging, brokering or dealing in salvageable parts of five of more vehicles; (3) engages in the business of buying five or more vehicles to sell vehicle parts or process into scrap metal.  The law creates a rebuttable presumption that a person who buys and sells, exchanges, brokers, leases or deals in five or more vehicles in a 12-month period is engaged in such a business.

You do not need a dealer's license if the vehicles you acquire at auctions are sold to licensed vehicle dealers.

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