<p>please make some snow, artlovers!!</p>
<p>Deb-
I wish the hassle was over!! We are over most of it but there is still a big one to get over. If we clear that, we are home free.</p>
<p>jym, my advise is to take your DS and his GF to Hawaii! The long term [2 month] weather outlook does not bode well for skiing, due to La Nina[ and global climate change too] .</p>
<p>LOL. No way! First of all he just started his job out there and has no vacation time, we already booked our tix to/from SF and this is OUR vacation. We just want to see them briefly :)</p>
<p>Back to the house issue… The contents have been removed from the house, my )(<em>+@#($=</em>$)*^ selfish relative finally realized that what I asked her to take with her (when she was there getting the items that I had gifted to her) were small and no big deal, and apparently she did take them. Who knows if I well ever see them again… No matter. She sent photos of the large, netted off hole in the front lawn. Please everyone, cross your fingers and hope that the soil removal will be event-free and that we can close soon.</p>
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nevermind about you, when I read this, I had to cross my fingers as well. :)</p>
<p>Is insurance going to pay for all this?</p>
<p>Hopefully. Depends what they find. But so far they think it is “routine”</p>
<p>routine my foot! Insurance always has a way to wriggle out of money. my client had her building BURNED Down! She was NOT the user of the building and not in fault, insurance refuses to pay because she was “under insured”… They are in courts now… Oh my.</p>
<p>We have tank insurance. They were on site when the tank was removed. Already accepted the claim.</p>
<p>fingers crossed jym626! I hope to soon read that this deal is DONE!</p>
<p>Tank insurance? Do you live near a military base? Do tanks escape that often? Wouldn’t the military pay if a tank ran over your house?</p>
<p>[This is a test … this is only a test. If any of the above was taken seriously, please take a couple days off and remind yourself “This too shall pass.”]</p>
<p>Best Wishes for it passing soon!</p>
<p>Thanks for the humor, newhope. It is much needed.</p>
<p>We’ll be moving the stuff out of my mom’s room in the assisted living facilty this weekend. It’s amazing how everyone came running to help when I told them husband and I were going to head over and everything would be either donated or thrown away. Even the sister who hasn’t seen my Mom for four years has come running. </p>
<p>We have two storage units full of furniture from the family home that no one has ever claimed after seven years. Lots of sentimental value, and they won’t let me dispose of it. Now that there is no more money, I don’t know what to do. The economy is such that I won’t be able to sell it, even though some nice antiques in there. </p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Adding two cents from the left coast. Our 1933 Tudor has been for sale since April. Only in the last month have we really had any action. Lowering the price this week, and continuing to cross fingers. We’ve already moved into our new place, and the old girl probably isn’t going to show as well without furniture, though the dining room and living room have been staged with stuff. Really hoping the market turns…especially with old homes, while beautiful, it takes a special buyer…</p>
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<p>over here there are few charitable orgs that will take your antiques and write you a good estimate to help your taxes. They will truck it away for you.</p>
<p>I don’t know how much luck everyone had, but I just bought a house off acution, bank owned. The problem of that is the original owner is still live there, rent/mortgage free for over a year. I have to either evict or rent to him. That is the problem now a days in the auctions, 90% of the houses either bank owned or in a trustee sale sold by private auctions are occupied by the previous owner. And the buyer cannot examine inside of the house before auction either.</p>
<p>Ok…but artloverplus…you knew that going into the auction anyway…so you obviously think the price you paid at auction is worth the risk.</p>
<p>Somebody I know…lost his house and stripped the house pretty much bare and took everything right before he evacuated.</p>
<p>I bought a house at auction and looked at it before bidding. S also just looked at a house for auction. One of those was Fannie Mae; one was HUD. Maybe it’s differerent by region or depending on who holds the paper.</p>
<p>Ewww–evicting the guy who lost his house and lived there free for a year would not be fun. I would also be worried about what they would do to the house.</p>
<p>So sryrstress, the house you bought at the auction was vacant?</p>
<p>What kind of discount did you think you received by buying at the auction? Were there other bidders?</p>
<p>At most if not all of the auctions around my area, the bank opens the bidding at the balance due on the mortgage, which is generally way above what the property is worth. So very few properties actually change hands at the auction.</p>
<p>They then kick whoever is living there out before putting it back on the market, generally by paying them to leave. The real estate agents call it “cash for keys”, and it might be the best strategy for artloversplus to take - offer the current residents a couple thou to be out in a month without wrecking the place. It might be cheaper (and definitely quicker) than an eviction.</p>
<p>A lot depends on the laws in your area - are the people living there “tenants” or “squatters”?</p>
<p>montegut If there is no money avaliable for space unit rental fees, I’d email everyone, let them know the are no funds for space rent, unless they want to pay the rent, the unit will must be empty by date X, anything left will be donated on the week before.
If you think there might be issues with who received the more valuable items, get an estate sale agent to come price things (they may charge a fee), and let everyone pay for what they want (funds going to your mom). The estate sale agent may be willing to sell some of the pieces, depending on value, etc.</p>
<p>You will, of course, want to check that you have legal authority to get rid of the stuff. If it’s merely that they prefer not to get rid of it, see what you need to do to get the responsibility for payment sent to the sibling objecting.</p>