House purchase - rights regarding items left in new house

Pollycat

Lioness_Twinkletoes wrote: »

Would he want to keep them if they were?

As I said in the part you quoted, he does not want to keep the items.

They were on the list of contents that the vendors were removing from the house.
He (and they) agreed to them being among the items they were taking.

If he had been interested in keeping the items, he'd have asked the vendors to negotiate a price for them as part of the agreed purchase price.
He was happy for the vendors to take them out of the house when they moved out.

imho

My god 2 grown adults arguing when people are giving good answers to your original post.I suggest you just close this thread or delete it.
Use Google to find out what to do with left over items in sold houses.

Jagraf

People can be so inconsiderate of other people's time. They can't organise themselves to move their stuff out on time, but expect someone else to use their time to make an effort.

Never happened to me really but I would never leave stuff in the fridge etc. I was under the impression, obviously wrongly, that whatever was left in the house was left. Glad then it didn't happen to me except that my ex left with one holdall and never came back for anything else, golf clubs, Cufflinks, photos, etc. these went up the loft for about 8 years and then they were thrown away.

Pollycat

imho wrote: »

My god 2 grown adults arguing when people are giving good answers to your original post.I suggest you just close this thread or delete it.
Use Google to find out what to with left over items in sold houses.

Thank you for your input.

I've thanked the posters who have given me good answers.

:hello: to another member of the forum police.

My friend said he did Google it and couldn't find an answer.
Maybe he was wrong.

Davesnave

Pollycat wrote: »

D'y know, I must be naïve.
I really expected a better class of response on this board.
Your replies are more suited to the Arms or DT.

WOW!

Not only do you think you have the final say on what topics can be posted on MSE, you also seem to feel you can control what is actually written.

What a mega-important person you must be.

As for expecting people to adhere to contract terms, yes I do.
In the times I've moved house, I've been out of my old house, complete will all the possessions I'm taking to my new house leaving everything I've said I would within the deadline for moving.

I don't see how that can be so hard to do - or so hard an expectation to understand.
But it's clear you do have problems understanding that.

There is bad will from this house sale, from the initial offer, through negotiating items to be left, to the final move out so that is why my friend wanted to know.

Whoops! Sorry, there I go again, adding 'extra information'.
Davesnave, the (self-appointed) forum police, will not take kindly to that, I'm sure.

I have no interest in reading through what crap other people find in their houses, but thanks for the link anyway.
I though it might have some relevance to my thread, but I ought to have known it wouldn't have.

Thanks to Evil Olive and theartfullodger for their replies.

I'm sorry your friend had a bad time over this purchase and as I've given offence, I'm sorry about that too.

I quickly conceded that your first question had relevance and explained that I hadn't addressed it. However, if you Google "items left after house sale," top of the list is MSE and you get three links altogether.

Others can make up their own minds about the quality of our posts.

Pollycat

Davesnave wrote: »

However, if you Google "items left after house sale," top of the list is MSE and you get three links altogether.

Thank you for this useful information.

It's a pity that my friend didn't find this information for himself.

From a very quick scan of one of the threads, it seems that the law may be different for goods left by tenants and goods left by vendors.

A number of posts stand out:

A landlord has a duty of care to a tenant's property left behind but a buyer has no such duty of care to a vendor's property.

If it was precious to them they would have taken it. Now you have a load of tat to get rid of. Tat which might cost you money to dispose of.

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.

I'll leave my friend to wade through the threads and decide on a way forward.

Sometimes, what might seem like sheer-bloody-mindedness on the face of it, can actually have a very good explanation.
Maybe I should have detailed the bad will in my first post.