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Has anyone ever had any dealings buying or selling a motorcycle with a "Rebuilt Title"? He says the insurance company totaled it when a shed clasped on the bike from Hurricane Michael, but that the only thing damaged was the fuel tank, it still has the dents in it. He bought it back with a salvage title, had it inspected and was issued a rebuilt title, which it will have from here on out.

Typically, they're very hard to sell, so value is way less than a similar conditioned bike with a clean title. Probably worth 1/2 of otherwise.
I had a Speedmaster that simply had an odometer discrepancy, and was hard enough to sell.
The problem with a "rebuild" is that the buyer never really knows the extent of the damage or the quality of the repair.
If you're the kind of guy that'll keep it for another 10 years, than go for it, but with a lot cheaper outlay.
Being in a hurricane, chances are it got doused pretty good, and then exposed to four years of salt air in FL?
Check for other rusted/pitted parts and that all electrics function properly.
(To me, it'd be a parts bike!)

Plenty.. I built a bike and spent 3 months of endless phone calls and bad information ( Seriously, the people answering the phones in the motor vehicle division are absolutely clueless. ) and a "fee" of 175.00 for a guy to come inspect the bike. This is after being advised that I could take it to an inspection station which I did and after a 70 mile round trip and several hours of my day was told that they don't inspect motorcycles but only after having me unload it from the trailer and wait over an hour for them to figure it out. So the inspector who came out says everything is great and gives me my autorization to get a title and then the state of Georgia informed me that that won't give me a salvage title for the bike.. and did not return my 175.00. I don't know what the laws are in your state but I have two words for you.... "Bonded title".