Last owners wanting back items they left behind.

We had same but a full length hall mirror on wall! They knocked on the door and just asked if they could have it..I was on mat leave at time so I said to cime back when my hubby was home. When he came in from work I toldhim, he was annoyed as they had no right but I said take it off wall and give them it...he did but personally I think they had a bit of a nerve...

Bluesmum, similar here, albeit ages ago. Dh was working in the Middle East at the time and the vendor was seriously annoyed with him for beating her down on the price. She said, ‘You are not in an Arab marketplace now!’ (She was German, so pls imagine the accent.)

So even though I had let her stay for 4 days after completion, since her new house wasn’t ready (my solicitor had a pink fit) and although she knew I’d be moving in on my own with a very small baby, she took out all the light bulbs, took down every curtain rail and sundry other things that were screwed in, that should have been left.

Here is a site that tells you how to deal with belongings a tenant leaves behind.

www.landlordvision.co.uk/blog/tenant-leaves-belongings-behind/

Recently bought a house which had been unoccupied for well over a year however there were still a few items in the house (freezer, wardrobe and large free standing cupboard). Also lots of stuff in the outbuildings. The previous owner's parents came and removed everything apart from the three items in the house ( our solicitor stipulated this as a condition of sale)I don't know how they managed without a removal van as there was so much. The freezer was no use to me as I already had one so it went on freecycle and was uplifted the same day. The wardrobe I really liked anyway so was glad they left it and the huge cupboard in the utility room is ideal for storing linen. When my son moved into his second house he was assured that the rubbish in the garage would be removed but it wasn't. The solicitor said it was only worth pursuing the previous owner if the removal of the stuff cost more than £500. Luckily a friend took the dozens of paving slabs and my son used my trailer to take the rest to the dump. When he bought his third house he was delighted when the previous owner left some lovely pieces of furniture behind as the chap was moving from a five bed house to a two bed flat.

The seller of our last house was ambulance man
We found lots of work pages detailing the emergencies he had attended .addresses.treatment etc.
We had arranged to have our mail re-directed for a month after we moved but they hadn't bothered.
I never had their new address .they didn't want to giv it to me. So after a couple of months I started to return to sender..after six months a just threw it in the bin

We moved to Rssex in the 80’s and never looked in the attic for about a year as too busy with 3 little children and both working. One day we both decided to put stuff in the attic so went up there to find hundreds ( no exaggeration ) of porno magazines . We threw them down the stairs with a view to putting them in the bin ( had no car then ) and it took quite a few bin duos to get rid of them . Rather embarrassing. We knew where the former owned his shop and felt like going into tell him what we found but didn’t . He was lucky his wife never found out I think . He spent rather a lot of money on them I should think . We were a bit hard up then - perhaps we should have sold them but no e bat or buyers sellers market then .

Louella12

We had a 12 foot blow up snowman that you plugged in and glitter flew everywhere. It was for some big event.

They didn't want him back because we did ask and he puts in an appearance each Christmas.

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Brilliant!

We moved to our current house 35 years ago and the following day my husband realised the lawn roller had been left behind and he decided to go and collect it, with the new owner's permission. We'd only moved half a mile away, but there's a fairly steep hill in between. He dragged the heavy roller all the way up the hill and left it in the hedge at the side of the house where it resides (buried somewhere in undergrowth) to this day.

I’m not sure why you would need to ask this question, although interesting, because you haven’t given it away and provided they will come and collect it or pay for it to be collected then I can’t that see that there is problem or a legal issue. It’s very easy, when moving house, what with the stress and chaos this brings, to accidentally leave something. I know this because I’ve moved house 15 times. I do think though it might have been cheaper for them to go out and buy one rather than hire a solicitor to send you a letter. Maybe it has some sentimental value.