can you remove garden paving slabs once offer been made on house?

Fire_Fox

meritaten wrote: »

I contacted the other beneficiary and she went up and took the plants etc she wanted. me and the kids went up and there wasnt much left! I assumed the walkways were ok to take.
I resent the posts which imply I stripped the house and garden! I didnt!!! we took the flagstones yes, we took the plants in pots as they were dying through lack of water anyway.we dug up a few plants....so???
in the house we left carpets most light fittings except for one lightshade my mum really wanted.
the buyer got a lovely three bedroom semi for £65k needs about 20k work on it. the house will prob be almost gutted. the garden was so overgrown it needs a bulldozer to sort it out. taking the plants was almost a rescue operation!

Anything that is attached to the property but not actually the building itself are fixtures and fittings. In a traditional sale you would complete a solicitors fixtures and fittings form saying you wish to take the washing machine and curtains but are leaving the light fittings and curtain poles, say.

At auction the property is sold as seen, unless you specify beforehand the beneficiaries are going to strip the garden you simply have no legal right to do so, regardless of how cheaply the house is sold. If the plants die or the flagstones end up in a skip so be it.

meritaten wrote: »

oh - and I forgot to say - I am the lease holder from another will! So from my understanding - I own the ground?

If you own land which has a leasehold property built on you would be the freeholder not not leaseholder. The leaseholder is the person who owns the right to lives in (or let out) the property itself for, say, 99 years. Which are you?

Milliewilly

meritaten wrote: »

I think I stated that due to a breakdown in communication between the beneficiaries the house wasnt cleared before the auction. when i phoned the auctioneers to ask if the house was sold they said no. they also said that there was an interested party. it turned out that it was only then i learned the house hadnt been cleared (the other beneficiary had insisted it was up to her to do it and she hadnt) so i asked if it was ok to clear the house and take statuary etc out of the garden. they said ok.
I contacted the other beneficiary and she went up and took the plants etc she wanted. me and the kids went up and there wasnt much left! I assumed the walkways were ok to take.
I resent the posts which imply I stripped the house and garden! I didnt!!! we took the flagstones yes, we took the plants in pots as they were dying through lack of water anyway.we dug up a few plants....so???
in the house we left carpets most light fittings except for one lightshade my mum really wanted.
the buyer got a lovely three bedroom semi for £65k needs about 20k work on it. the house will prob be almost gutted. the garden was so overgrown it needs a bulldozer to sort it out. taking the plants was almost a rescue operation!
oh - and I was born and brought up in that house! and i cannot wait to see if it becomes a family home once more! even though it upset me to clear it!

The problem you have is the buyer has already seen the flagstones. Secondly where they have been lifted will be obvious as there will now be a mud strip where the previous pathways were. It may not be an issue as the buyer may be planning on decking the garden etc, but if it is you will have to return them and re-lay them. Now they have been removed you could always wait to see what the buyer does and deal with it then.

meritaten

thanks millie
the flagstones ARE being returned and I will talk to the new owner when they take possession to ask if they are wanted.
I am also signing over the freehold to the new owner as I have had enough and just do NOT want anything more to do with that property!
I also doubt that I would post again on this board - most of you are horrible! understand please that this was my childhood home!!! my parents bought most of the things there! and nothing much changed since we left forty years ago! now the other beneficiary while she may have been right about this - has caused nothing but upset and quite frankly I dont need it from you posters as well!!!

tbs624

meritaten wrote: »

thanks millie
the flagstones ARE being returned and I will talk to the new owner when they take possession to ask if they are wanted.

That's good

meritaten wrote: »

I am also signing over the freehold to the new owner as I have had enough and just do NOT want anything more to do with that property!

Take good legal advice before you do this.

meritaten wrote: »

I also doubt that I would post again on this board - most of you are horrible!

As you probably don't personally know any of the other posters, I think you perhaps mean that you found some of their comments "horrible". If you post on a public forum you will get many different opinions by way of response - try not to take it personally. Words can appear harsher than intended when in print, rather than spoken, but that's just part of forum life

On your OP, others are able to stand back and look at things from the other party's potential viewpoint, and it seems a common occurrence for folk selling a property to not want to do this. However, you personally must have had misgivings about your son's actions as you took the time to post.

meritaten wrote: »

understand please that this was my childhood home!!! my parents bought most of the things there! and nothing much changed since we left forty years ago! now the other beneficiary while she may have been right about this - has caused nothing but upset and quite frankly I dont need it from you posters as well!!!

You clearly are having a stressful time over this, but don't let that undermine the fact that you did get responses from other people which clearly helped you to make your mind up on the fairest way to proceed.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

eco-friendly wrote: »

I've just sent you a PM, I'm looking for some flooring and half a dozen doors!

theres something called a dump! civil amenity site perhaps if you sit there a few days you might get what your looking for if you that low!


this is a persons relatives home have some respect! and a apology wouldnt go a miss to meritaten!

atrixblue.-MFR-.

googler wrote: »

Why stop at the flagstones?

Why not cannibalise the house for the pendant light fittings, light switches and mains plugs?

Take out the bathroom suite?

Need I go on...?

THIS POST ISNT ON! do you have no respect! read the post with some interlect and youd soon find out that the house in question is a family home why would meritaten want do disrespect the memory of her aunt! mistakes are made were talking garden stuffs not in house fixtures and fittings like some other nasty posts like yours suggest i think an apology is due here dont you!!!

Wee_Willy_Harris

Interlect? I see. And the vendors family connections should disadvantage the purchaser.... why?

eco-friendly_2

atrixblue

googler

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

THIS POST ISNT ON! do you have no respect! read the post with some interlect and youd soon find out that the house in question is a family home why would meritaten want do disrespect the memory of her aunt! mistakes are made were talking garden stuffs not in house fixtures and fittings like some other nasty posts like yours suggest i think an apology is due here dont you!!!

Wow. "Interlect" ?!?!

Apology? No, I don't think so. As another poster suggests, drop back when you've considered 'interlectchully' the meaning and merits of 'tongue in cheek' posting ....

googler

meritaten wrote: »

I also doubt that I would post again on this board - most of you are horrible! understand please that this was my childhood home!!! my parents bought most of the things there! and nothing much changed since we left forty years ago! now the other beneficiary while she may have been right about this - has caused nothing but upset and quite frankly I dont need it from you posters as well!!!

Remember this is the internet!!!! Also, you're adding points in this post that no-one could have inferred from your original!!!! Originally, it was your deceased aunt's house!!!! We don't know whether you were close to your aunt or not! NOW you tell us it's your childhood home!!

If it gets us some relief from your incessant exclamation marks, then yes - it might be a good plan not to post again ........ but as someone has pointed out - whatever the style of those who followed your OP, you seem to have got the answer(s) you needed.

atrixblue, before you demand an apology for this one, I urge you to consider the meaning of 'tongue in cheek'.