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To have a garage sale of her belongings?

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inheritancetrack · 28/02/2022 21:24

My uncle is living in the house of his late wife but it is in trust and will go to his stepdaughters on his death, so he doesn't own the house but neither do they. The summerhouse 30ftx12ft is piled to the Windows with one on the SDs belongings Basically shit...old toys, eBay buys, charity shop buys, old clothes etc. There's a,so stuff in the house, in the garage and in the car port, including garden furniture. SD has her own house and family but the amount of stuff is ridiculous

He's told her to take it all but she doesn't. It's been a year. Because the house is in trust he can't just skip the lot. I've suggested a storage unit and pay 2 months and give her the key, but it would cost a lot of money and need a huge van hire to get it there.

WWYD?

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fallfallfall · 28/02/2022 21:31

as this thread to be moved to legal vs aibu. you might get some helpful hints.
if i understand what you are saying the daughters who will eventually inherit the house are using it for storage? or was their mother a bit of a hoarder and he's of the impression he's unable to pair anything down?

WildPoinsettia · 28/02/2022 21:47

I don't see that the house being in trust has anything to do with this situation. It's your uncles home until his death. He doesn't want someone else's possessions in his home which is fair enough, especially considering its not as if SD currently owns his home. He's given reasonable notice for the person who owns the possessions to remove them. I don't see any reason at all why he can't now dispose of them in any way he sees fit.

inheritancetrack · 28/02/2022 22:02

@fallfallfall

as this thread to be moved to legal vs aibu. you might get some helpful hints. if i understand what you are saying the daughters who will eventually inherit the house are using it for storage? or was their mother a bit of a hoarder and he's of the impression he's unable to pair anything down?
All SDs possessions
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Leeds2 · 28/02/2022 22:20

I would write to her and tell her that she has a month to remove anything she wants, or it will be taken to the dump/charity shop. and I would do it, bit by bit, rather than incur the cost of a skip etc. BHF collect furniture from your house, so I would ask them to remove the garden furniture, or anything else that might be classed as such.

SarahBellam · 28/02/2022 22:23

Can you not load it all into a van and drop it in her front garden?

inheritancetrack · 01/03/2022 10:12

@SarahBellam

Can you not load it all into a van and drop it in her front garden?
Seriously tempted. It is enough to fill a 30x12 ft summerhouse to the windows though so would be a lot of trips.
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