House!

[j4]

addedentry and I have the keys to our house! Well, some of the keys. The estate agents gave us the front door keys, & told us that all the other keys were in the house. They're not, as far as we can tell.

I say "as far as we can tell" because it's entirely possible that the keys are lost/buried under the skipload of junk that the seller and tenants have kindly left us. Books, clothes, furniture, bottles of vodka, a broken bong... basically all the cupboards are still full of crap. Ugh.

So, as twittered, we're going to be there on Sunday afternoon clearing stuff out. It's not exactly a party, but if anybody's at a loose end and feels like helping us sort things into piles ("recycling", "bin", "what the holy fvck is this" etc) then they will be very welcome & we will reward them with beer and/or cake (or equivalent local currency). Also, you'll be welcome to take any of the junk if you want! (I'm not promising some kind of treasure-trove here, but, y'know, books is books.)

If you're planning to take up this generous offer :-) please email/txt one of us for the address.

Comments

[aldabra]

I think there's a legal definition of vacant possession which includes having moved the crap out. Photograph it, in case you can claim costs back from someone.

[timeplease.livejournal.com]

The lawyers don't think it's very clear. (http://www.pinsentmasons.com/media/1415452422.pdf) But it's worth a shot.

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

Does vacant possession not just effectively mean "it's your crap now"?

[aldabra]

When my family left the country a week before the house sale completed and before they'd got around to clearing the cupboards and roof I was under the strong impression that they'd left me with a legal requirement to do it. But that was twenty years ago...

[j4.livejournal.com]

That was what I'd've thought, yeah. Like we needed more crap. :-} Still, hoping to be able to rehome/recycle most of it...

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

I do have photographs, which I'll post to LJ for amusement. It will be something like amusement since the seller did turn up this afternoon and take all the heavy stuff to the tip, as promised and to our surprise.