Previous Tenants' Stuff

diable

Why don't you contact the previous tenant and tell then to remove their stuff within a month or you will dispose of it. If they don't collect it then keep it in the flat.

ChrisCobra

Strange it appears my previous post in here has been removed , i will repeat...


Give the stuff back if and when the previous tenants can come pick it up when it is convinient for YOU.

suisidevw

TBH, after reading the OP I thought you were pretty low.

mlz1413

"If they were not listed on the inventory, how far will I get with arguing that they were not in the property when I moved in? Surely, there is no legal proof that they were ever in the property if they are not listed on the inventory. "
This makes it sound like you don't want to give the items back and would rather lie than hand them back. Later on you say it's a bin, broken furniture and airer - which don't sound like worrying about.

"What annoyed me was that the previous tenant has used my new home as a free storage area "
Get over it, if anyone should be annoyed it would be the LL.


As this whole situation has annoyed you I would make a point of writing to the LA/LL to say items not on the inventory, list them, will be removed in 14 days please advise also previous tenant.

Bin them after said time and then the items won't annoy you any more.

Jim_B_3

Piggles12345 wrote: »

What if I get rid of the other stuff after, say, a month and the old tenant rings the letting agent saying that they want the stuff back. Then where do I stand?

It's all here in easy steps, so you can get rid of it and remain totally legal:

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/nireland/your_world/consumer_affairs/keeping_lost_found_and_uncollected_goods.htm

Edit: Unless you're not in England, Wales or NI.

Piggles12345

:mad::mad::mad::mad:

I'm really angry!

I have just got home and the previous tenant hasn't picked up her precious bin after all!

I am going to call the letting agents tomorrow and tell them that it needs to be collected before Saturday week, or else it is being dumped.

Three weeks after moving out of your property is ample time to realise that you haven't got a bin and arrange to pick it up. I'm not a free storage facility; it has to be gone by Saturday 19th June.

diable

How is she getting in to the flat when you are not there?

BitterAndTwisted

It really doesn't sound like much of big deal having a few smallish items left behind and I have no idea why people are getting so bent out of shape over something so very trivial.

What would a reasonable person do? Give the previous tenant an opportunity to collect the stuff at a time convenient to the new tenant, I reckon. That's what I'd do, any way. I wouldn't even have expended the energy to have started a thread about it. Some people have too much time on their hands, it seems

stationaryace

it's simple: if I rent out a property there is no way i'm storing anything for previous tenants. some stuff left by the landlord can be bad enough but this takes the biscuit. the notice required before leaving a property gives ample time to sort out all your belongings, even if you have to pay to store it somewhere in between places. if for whatever reason you live in a hurry then you take the most important things and chose what to leave (ie what you can afford to replace later).

9 months into her tenancy my sister received a call from the landlord saying that the previous tenants wanted to pick up some belongings left behind- a (really useful) small mirrored bathroom cabinet and several large (and i mean large) pictures (and some random bits). she felt a bit miffed that her flat was being used as storage without consent but let them in to pick up their stuff- again the old tenants mucked around by not showing up on several pre-arranged times. i personally would have requested a payment for storage before handing over the goods- not being their parents i have no compulsion to hoard stuff for them :cool:

ohmsoft

I left my washing machine in the place i was renting when i left last month - since then I've been informed by my new landlord than the new place will not be fitted with one. So now I'm washing machineless.

Under a lot of the principles above it would appear reasonable for me to ask for my old one back. I course I wouldn't dream of it. I left it because i couldn't be bothered to sell/move it. I cannot possibly still consider it mine - no more than if I leave a tip on a resurant table or give somebody a gift.

When I rent a place the stuff on the inventory is stuff im responisble for and am holding on trust for the landlord.

Anything that isn't is fair game for me to do what I want with.

I would definatley give the stuff back in this circumstance, at my conveinience and I would be tempted to have a look to see how much storage would cost in a place like 'Big Yellow' - i'll place a bit it would be more than the cost of the items