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Previous owner left things behind
Chickabiddybex
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I bought a house in November but the previous owner left some garden furniture behind. We were surprised to see it when we arrived and asked them if they were going to collect it. They said yes and gave a date but never showed up. I was wondering where I stand legally, can I throw it away? What about keeping it? Is there any time limit?
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if you have their address, write to them, giving them a month to collect or it will be disposed of, if no address, ask solicitor to pass it along0
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Just dump it! They clearly couldn't be bothered. I had to do a dump trip when I moved in to my house. You could pay someone to collect it and dump it and then claim from previous owners but is it worth the hassle?0
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We had the same issue with our new property. Went up into the loft on the first day to find it totally full of posessions. Turns out the property had been rented and every tenant for the past decade had just added to the collection up in the loft.
Took me a good couple of hours to get everything down from there and chucked it all in the garage.
Previous owners said they would come to collect it on a sepcified date; never showed up.
Passed a message on through the solicitor that if they didn't collect it we would be disposing of it all and passing them the bill for costs plus compensation for our time in doing so and the day off work waiting for them to show up the first time.
Next weekend they were there with a van and I managed to reclaim my garage
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We were left a washing machine in kitchen which we use,a working hoover which we keep as a spare.
Thinks we got rid of were a wine rack,tyre and naughty magazines left in loft!0
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