Vacant Possession-NOT!!!!!

chadfield

If you want some more detailed legal advice on this, I can recommend the forum in Just Claim:

http://www.justclaim.co.uk/bb/index.php

There are a couple of legally qualified people who post. I found it very helpful when I had to take my landlord to court re the withholding of my deposit.

Cheers

Chris

Canucklehead

Update!!! The vendor (after 2 recorded delivery letters to her including digital photos of the rubbish left and a promise to file a County Court claim on 5 October 2006) has today sent us a cheque for £100 to cover the removal of the sheds' contents...this will cover the cost of having someone in to shift the lot and a nice dinner out for us at the pub. Her correspondence to us has been, to say the least, inflammatory and rude...but hey only words...once the cheque clears so will the rubbish.:j

Thanks again.

angelface

I'm on the other side - my mum and dad renovated my nans house to a beautiful standard after she died and let it out (unfurnished). They let it out for six months to two women, who furnished it and it was managed by an estate agents who reported back to my mum and dad on the state of it until the tenants could no longer pay and then my mum and dad put it up for sale.

They never went back in the house (it upset my mum too much) and on the day of exchange she got an angry call from the woman buying it saying she was going to contact her lawyer for breach of contract over all the furniture in it! apparently there was a freezer full of fish! Chairs, sofas, tables (she couldn't get her stuff in!) Anyway, mum was a bit miffed that nobody had thought to mention the extra items on the inventory but she just told the agent to get a lorry, hire somebody and get rid of all the stuff and she would obviously foot the bill. But she truly wasn't aware and was fairly mortified that this lady would think she'd left lots of fish in the house.....

GabbaGabbaHey

Van1971 wrote:

my vendor left a load of rubbish at the borrom of our garden ... even the garage's old roof which was asbestos!
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I have since thrown the stuff away bit by bit, a pain in the backside.

I trust that you have got rid of the asbestos by employing an approved contractor and not just disposed of it as household waste!