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Items left after completion.
jodami84
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We have recently completed on our first home and the vendor has left numerous things that weren't listed with the solicitors at exchange.
It has taken plenty of cleaning up, but thats not my issue as we have found several things that will be useful too us.
My concern is that because the vendor and ex were splitting, she has just sacked off some of his posessions and, as it stands, he's not in a position to do claim them. Tv's, furtniture etc etc are all gone from the house, but in the shed there several garden appliances and a lot of tools.
I rung our estate agent and she said as far as they are concerned the vendor has removed everything they desired and that whats left is ours.
I would be happy with that but I dont want the fella coming back further down the line for what i suspect is his stuff.
All advice would be appreciated
It has taken plenty of cleaning up, but thats not my issue as we have found several things that will be useful too us.
My concern is that because the vendor and ex were splitting, she has just sacked off some of his posessions and, as it stands, he's not in a position to do claim them. Tv's, furtniture etc etc are all gone from the house, but in the shed there several garden appliances and a lot of tools.
I rung our estate agent and she said as far as they are concerned the vendor has removed everything they desired and that whats left is ours.
I would be happy with that but I dont want the fella coming back further down the line for what i suspect is his stuff.
All advice would be appreciated
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Get the blokes name & ring him ???????????0
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I would keep the stuff I needed and use it and if he came back for it in the future I would give it to him. Anything I didnt need I would bin. I suspect legally you cant bin it though but I wouldnt want it cluttering up the place.0
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Legally, any items left behind in the property once you take possession are now yours to do with as you please. No-one can come back to you days, weeks, months or years later and claim them as their own. Stop worrying about it.0
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I can't find it now, but there was a thread a while back about a similar issue, and I think it said that you do have a duty to take reasonable care of these items. If its just stuff in a shed, I think I'd make an inventory of what's there, take photos of anything valuable, and write to the vendor to ask them to pick up the items within the next few weeks. If they don't, give them a bit longer (six months or a year maybe) and then start using the items or sell/dump them and keep a record of all the transactions and keep the money aside in case this guy ever does turn up.0
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BitterAndTwisted wrote: »Legally, any items left behind in the property once you take possession are now yours to do with as you please. No-one can come back to you days, weeks, months or years later and claim them as their own. Stop worrying about it.
Clearly that is not the case for items left behind by a tenants. Perhaps it is different in case of a sale?0 -
jjlandlord wrote: »Clearly that is not the case for items left behind by a tenants. Perhaps it is different in case of a sale?
You have no duty of care to items left in a property that is under your ownership.
We were suing a vendor because the sheer amount of stuff left and the cost of removing it was massive. We had to check initially with our litigator as to whether we could start getting rid of it. He gave us the nod. He also let the vendor and their solicitors know that we were under no obligation to look after any of it.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Doozergirl wrote: »You have no duty of care to items left in a property that is under your ownership.
Again, in the specific case of a tenant leaving items behind, the landlord (who has ownership of the property) has a duty of care.
This is not related to the property's ownership, but to the ownership of the items themselves.
From you reply I gather that this might be different for items left behind by a vendor. Though I'm pretty sure that ownership of moveable items (like tools in shed) is not transferred to the buyer of the property if not mentioned in contract, so I'd tread carefuly.0
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