Can a seller take the carpets & blinds AFTER completion?

Davesnave

Have a word with your local PSCO, who will visit the lady and explain things to her.

moneyistooshorttomention

Davesnave wrote: »

Have a word with your local PSCO, who will visit the lady and explain things to her.

I'll second that.

The police have a little something up their sleeve that the PCSO might hint at/downright tell her - of serving a Police Information Notice on her to notify her that what she is doing constitutes harassment (this being so that the harasser cant plead that what they were saying was just innocent remarks).

Basically its a warning shot across the bows to someone going in for intimidatory behaviour.

Bringing your relatives into this as well = the cheek of the madam to do that. She's obviously hoping they will exert added pressure on you to pay up this £3k. But its absolutely not fair of her to try contacting them about this.

pinkshoes

buntyroo wrote: »

Thanks all for the advice. She has been knocking around again at mine and a relatives house. I'm getting pretty fed up and feeling harassed now. I have sent her a firm message to say we have already accommodated greatly, we will not meet any further requests and for her not to contact me anymore.

She responds saying the she wants 'her belongings ie - the blinds and the carpets' and will call her solicitors.

I think my original suspicions are correct - she wants money out of this, as she also said 'the carpets and blinds were not included as you refused to pay the full price'. Yes, I did - but she should have kept her obligation to remove before completion! Now it would be a major upheaval for us.

I have honestly never heard of anything like this before!

They are not "her" belongings, and she should be grateful you are not charging her to dispose of them as per your right.

Tell her that any further contact will be deemed as harassment and you will call the police!

Our vendor left loads of stuff in the house, but we agreed to it as part of the sale, as he was downsizing and stressed about getting rid of various belongings. It was written into the contract that we permitted this so we wouldn't suddenly charge him for a skip!

AdrianC

buntyroo wrote: »

She has been knocking around again at mine and a relatives house.

How does she even know who your relative is and where they live?

davidmcn

cloo wrote: »

Although TBH I'm not sure how much right they have to come and take stuff post completion where it's basically assumed everything is within the new owners' rights to keep.

Yes, although the seller may be a little unhinged about how she's going about it, I'm pretty sure the OP hasn't got any legal title to items which weren't contractually included in the price. Not sure if there's likely to be anything in the contract covering storage etc for "forgotten" items.

marksoton

buntyroo wrote: »

Thanks all for the advice. She has been knocking around again at mine and a relatives house. I'm getting pretty fed up and feeling harassed now. I have sent her a firm message to say we have already accommodated greatly, we will not meet any further requests and for her not to contact me anymore.

She responds saying the she wants 'her belongings ie - the blinds and the carpets' and will call her solicitors.

I think my original suspicions are correct - she wants money out of this, as she also said 'the carpets and blinds were not included as you refused to pay the full price'. Yes, I did - but she should have kept her obligation to remove before completion! Now it would be a major upheaval for us.

I have honestly never heard of anything like this before!

Oh behave! This woman has gone from delusional to batcrap crazy!

Let her call whoever she wishes,it won't get her anywhere. Some people need a serious reality check.

moneyistooshorttomention

Well...this is where it would be useful too for OP to ring their legal helpline with their insurance company to clarify, for sure and certain, who these items now belong to legally. I would tend to assume that anything not taken "within a reasonable time after Completion Date" automatically becomes the property of the buyer. I would also assume "reasonable time" would mean 7 days. But - it would help if OP can clarify that for sure and certain.

That is - of course - provided they have paid the legal add-on to their normal household insurance and have such a service available to them.

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If OP doesn't have that legal add-on and cant ask that - then probably best to work on the basis of "Is this irrational seller likely to go to a small claims court and ask for their former possessions back again?" I rather doubt it. If the woman did actually do so - then I would doubt the Court would order them handed to the vendor anyway.

Worst case analysis would probably be this delusional seller going that route/the Case comes up/the Court came up with the wrong verdict (doubtful.....) and the vendors' former possessions had to be handed back to her and OP got told to pay the Court fees. Well - those Court fees wouldn't cost much (probably less than £100??). £100 is a good bit cheaper than £3,000. Of course - OP would obviously tell the Court that she wanted money for storage fees for those possessions - and I doubt she'd even be told to cover the vendors' Court costs.

But I very much doubt this vendor would go that far. She is, almost certainly, just hoping her programme of harassment will work and OP will hand over that £3k.

AdrianC

Given that we're so close to completion, I'd say that a call to the solicitor who did the conveyancing would not be out of order - this is a matter arising from it, after all.

davidmcn

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Well...this is where it would be useful too for OP to ring their legal helpline with their insurance company to clarify, for sure and certain, who these items now belong to legally.

No, it's the sort of commonplace post-completion query that their solicitor can deal with, not somebody on a helpline who hasn't even seen the contract.

I would tend to assume that anything not taken "within a reasonable time after Completion Date" automatically becomes the property of the buyer. I would also assume "reasonable time" would mean 7 days.

You say 7 days, the law says 6 years...unless there's something else in the contract about it.

moneyistooshorttomention

6 years????!!!!!!!:eek:

That would be one heck of a long time for the law to allow. Difficult to think the law might expect anything to "hang over someones head" anything like that long.

Do you have a link for that?