Abandoned belongings of a livery Yard owners WWYD?

Honey08

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If you had a livery leave an item when they left, and you had stored it for over four years, reminding them to collect it several times, and someone else asked to buy it, would you sell it? The item would be worth about £40. This is a livery who you no longer have any contact with and haven't seen for over two years, and you don't have any contact nos for. It is also an item that has had to be stored inside and is quite big, that is getting in the way!
 
Yup, after 3 months, it's yours (or that's the case with bikes that get dumped so I assume it's the same for other stuff!)
 
I would have given it a year, so after all this time, I'd say it is yours and you can do as you wish with it. (ps, what is it?) Amazing what people leave behind! From PC camp, I had, whips, buckets, rugs and body protectors to name a few than no-one seemed to miss!!
 
Thanks. I have just sold it anyway!

I don't feel THAT guilty, the livery insisted on taking all our video footage of my stepson on his first pony, saying they would put it on a DVD for us (she was a computer whiz), and never did, we never got the footage back when she left either, so have lost all memories of him on his first pony. The livery took umbridge at me not letting her horse out with the others (it was only over a fence from them and could touch them) because it kept attacking the ponies and ripping rugs, and doesn't speak to us unless I deliberately go over and say hello when we cross paths at shows (which I do because I have no issues and to remind her that her item is still there waiting to be collected). It was a haybar.
 
If its in the way and they havent made an effort to collect then get rid. I still have a bit that a livery forgot to take about 4 years ago, but i wouldnt find it right to sell it, so i just hang onto it in case. :)
 
We had a tenant a good few years back who'd left some expensive looking vases at the property. We needed to re-let, and so put the "precious" vases in an outhouse.

She then rang and demanded her vases back. She'd left owing some rent, and the solicitors who were dealing with the new tenancy etc said that we were entitled to keep anything she'd left in the flat and to regard it as payment for arrears of rent.

It was clearly in her tenancy agreement that at the termination of the tenancy all of her personal possessions had to be out of the property by the relevant date.

In the end we DID, stupidly, let her have her precious vases back, but made her sign for them that (a) they were returned undamaged and (b) that she'd received them, in front of an independent witness. She was a stroppy cow and just the type to make trouble and badmouth us to the new tenants if we hadn't returned her items.

Think OP you've done exactly the right thing. Someone left a rusty frame of a Landrover here - I put up with it for far too long, in excess of five years. It was cluttering the place up and making it look very untidy, awful in fact, so I got a scrap metal merchant to come and pick it up. Boy did it feel good to see someone else's rubbish go out of the yard! Wish I'd done it sooner.

So well done OP. What a blimmin cheek some people have.
 
I suppose if you felt bad about it, you could put the money into Premium Bonds!

The principal will still be there if there is a problem -- but if you win, you'd keep the winnings!
 
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