Renting property - Can I bin a previous tenant's stuff?

[pork911]

AndrewCrown said:

I think it depends on how good looking she was...

he said it looked like a pretty decent unit

[1Addicted]

Nyphur said:

Local furniture charity organisation collected mid Saturday afternoon.
Mid Sunday afternoon I had a txt asking when she could come and collect her furniture. I replied with the above and heard nothing back...

Good! I love you how people think that they can take the p1ss out of someone's good nature, such as yours and then still demand more. Best result, money to charity and a big middle finger to a time waster.

For what it's worth, I always find that those dodgy second hand Pine/Oak furniture shops will take any real wooden items from you.
I was left with an ugly wardrobe by the last owner here and subsequently sold it for £60 rather than smashing it to pieces to get it out (HUGE!). Turns out he was prepared to smash it up just to get it out anyway so I left him to it with a hammer and Philips head.

[Meoricin]

hora said:

I really wouldn't do this. You may be set up for a banging on your door and a fella/her asking for money for it. Cat in hells but still.


Its the letting agent who should be removing this.

He said it already happened.

[anonymous-user]

Thought I'd heard the end of this one...

So another week has rolled on and I have been informed that the Ottoman was worth £200 and that I would be billed for the cost.
She has been informed that my very generous storage and disposal costs amount to a similar, but slightly greater sum, though I am willing to call it quits.

I await the response in the next few weeks....

[Rick101]

Good answer.

I can't tolerate useless people like that.

£200 my arse.

[1Addicted]

Rick101 said:

Good answer.

I can't tolerate useless people like that.

£200 my arse.

£50 at best, or around £8 on eBay after ten muppets go into a bidding war in £0.16 increments.

[JustinP1]

Nyphur said:

Thought I'd heard the end of this one...

So another week has rolled on and I have been informed that the Ottoman was worth £200 and that I would be billed for the cost.
She has been informed that my very generous storage and disposal costs amount to a similar, but slightly greater sum, though I am willing to call it quits.

I await the response in the next few weeks....

He he....

If you have supposedly expensive stuff, do you really just leave it somewhere that's not yours?

And hope that someone looks after it for a month while you mess about ad infinitum until eventually they give notice they will get rid and do so?

I don't think this is going further, but it would make an interesting Money Claim Online Defence thread...!