Previous owner asking to buy back property!

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youth_leader said:

I agree, you have only just moved in and need to focus on yourselves.  After 14 months here my vendor has texted to say Ticketmaster have sent her tickets here by mistake.  I'm feeling quite anxious about them arriving and sending them on to her, not sure what or when the show is.

That will have been a 'simple' error in that the address was stored on her account and she didn't click on the correct one - happened to me!

cymruchris

NameUnavailable said:

youth_leader said:

I agree, you have only just moved in and need to focus on yourselves.  After 14 months here my vendor has texted to say Ticketmaster have sent her tickets here by mistake.  I'm feeling quite anxious about them arriving and sending them on to her, not sure what or when the show is.

That will have been a 'simple' error in that the address was stored on her account and she didn't click on the correct one - happened to me!

Me too - to an address I last lived at ten years prior Luckily they mis-delivered the item to the wrong wrong address so I got a refund! 

MalMonroe

bouicca21 said:

I don’t think we actually know whether the couple are elderly.  They have adult children so could be anywhere from 50s up - if they started young maybe even late 40s.  I’m in my 70s and if you call me elderly I won’t spit in your face but I’ll certainly fantasise about doing so.

Being older is not an excuse for behaving badly, nor does it guarantee sympathy for daft behaviour. That is just patronising.

Oh, I so agree with you and thank you. I'm 72 and get very cross when people infer that 'elderly' people (like me??! How dare you?!!) are physically and mentally disabled. 

In a previous comment the OP said the couple were probably mid-60s. Not at all old and certainly not feeble and drippy.

MalMonroe

Thank you so much, OP, for this thread. I've really enjoyed it. Although I do feel your pain of these very unusual people at least it's not been anything like as dull and boring as many people's house moves. It's reminded me of the movie 'Pacific Heights' with Melanie Griffith and Michael Keaton. Except there weren't any laughs in that movie. I hope you manage to get sorted - I always find that agreeing to everything doesn't go amiss. Agree to everything and just do the things that appeal to you. (But not to selling them the house, that would be cruel to raise their hopes).That way nobody is offended.

However, there's only so much that reasonable people can take and maybe you should ask them to leave you alone now or you'll have to report their harassment, as well as aggressive brother's, to the police. It's not clear why they sent brother round anyway. Police can issue restraining orders if they can't do much else. If the vendors and their family think they are going to get rid of you that way, they have another think coming. Who do they think they are? Mafioso?

I once had aggressive neighbours (not the same as weird previous owners with an aggressive brother but not very nice) and managed to stick it out for 8 years until the evening a brick came flying through the (closed) front window, narrowly missing my head. Not that I'm saying such violence will happen to you but I really should have tried to nip things in the bud properly before it they reached that stage. I moved shortly afterwards but should have tried to get a restraining order years before. Instead I reported the matter to the council who issued some ineffective ASBOs. 

GaleSF63

Awkward or entitled people in their 70s were probably awkward and entitled in their 40s. But in their 70s it's attributed to age, (not by everyone) whereas in their 40s it's attributed to their being awkward and entitled. 

Bendy_House

Juan, since their sis lives next door, I don't think there's any good reason to not simply post the mail through their letterbox - it's little hassle, and the decent thing to do since you are not like them. At least for another few weeks...

If, however, 'proper' mail (ie not junk/circulars) continues to arrive after this point - which could well indicate another attempt at 'connection' with 'their' house - it would definitely be time for RTS.

Parcels are a different matter, as this will presumably require collection by either the people themselves, the bro, or the sis next door. Since you presumably do not want any contact with either, I would refuse delivery of these, but point the delivery folk in the direction of next door. If they are not happy to leave it at a different address to that shown on the parcel, then that's a RTS too; you can explain quite honestly that 'there are, unfortunately, good reasons why I do not wish to hold parcels for them - but their sis lives next door... It's that or RTS!'

Can you clarify - have you actually had any reason to think the sis is nuts too? Or is it 'just' the folk themselves and the bro'? If the sis is behaving perfectly normally so far, then I change what I said there - I would take in parcels for a few weeks, and then take them round to sis. I would, tho', point out to the delivery folk that their sis lives there, to see if they'll do it first.

In other words, you behave as you normally would. Leave the nutty bits to them.

Hey! You have found a lovely couple on the road! These folk are 99.999% likely to be...wait for it... NORMAL! NICE! WELCOMING! FRIENDLY!

I suggest you do not bring up anything about what's been going on, unless they do - and it's likely that at some point they may well do. If so, you are free to discuss it as much as you want, but I'd keep it on the reserved side, and make it clear you don't like to talk about folk/bad-mouth them, so just allude to some of the weird things that went on, but couch it in "I don't want to say too much, but..." which will be fair, but also show you in a good light.

newsgroupmonkey_

Hey OP. Has the sister returned from their long break yet?

TBagpuss

Silvertabby said:

As the sister lives next door, and you need to keep things as civil as possible, I would tell the sister that you'll pass mail to her for one month, to be sure that their mail re-direction service is fully operational.  But after that you will RTS .

I think this is a good idea. From what you say, you haven't met the sister yet so she may be perfectly normal, anf even if she is as unreasonable as the rest of the family, you have to live next doorso it makes sense to try to start off on the right foot. 

I'd p wait until she is back and then pop round, introduce yourself and expalin that they asked yoto frop round any post and check if that's ok (aftr all, it's possible they didn't ak her in advnce, given that they appear to have no idea about normal boundaries it's possible that they didn't actually ask her if she was ok taking in their post!) 

Then tell her that you will be marking things as RTS rather than redelivering them from [date] onwards, and ask if she can make sure that her sibling knows, so that they can update anone thy've overloked / arrange for Royal Mail redirection if they forgot to do so prevously.

another_casualty

Feel really sotrry for OP. 

Hope the sister is " normal " in comparison . Agree that If any parcels get delivered then unless he diverts to sister or rts then the sellers will keep coming back.
Hope it all gets sorted ..

Abbafan1972

any updates on this yet?