Unwanted piano storage

[MM1972]

We have been given a short notice eviction. We believe due to the landlady wanting to sell the property. She evicted our neighbours a year ago, tidied the house up and put it on the market.
We could only find a smaller apartment to rent.
My partners daughter from a previous relationship had been storing lots of stuff, old toys, teddy bears, school books and uniforms etc in our house. There is no room for it in the new apartment. Most of it is currently stored on industrial type shelving in our garage. The daughter has refused this far to call and see if she wants to keep anything so most will be dumped. Apart from a piano.
The daughter wants us to move it and store it in the new small apartment. The daughter has been incredibly selfish before (getting pets and neglecting them, leaving them for my partner to look after is an example).
Am I being unreasonable to think the piano should be moved to her own house that she shared with her boyfriend? Us having to store it means there will be no room for our young kids bikes.

If she has her own house she should take it.

Well it seems rather pointless to own a piano, but not have it in your own home.
Unless you're able to sell it, presumably it will also add to any transport costs.
I'd refuse to let it in your new home. Let your DH sort it out.

I can't see why she'd think you should have it. What does her dad say?

You just tell her that you are NOT TAKING IT so unless she makes arrangements to move it by a certain date you will be putting the piano on fb/gumtree/eBay/giving away for free or worse case putting it in a skip /dump on moving day if it’s still there.

And make your she knows you mean it this time.

I don’t get on with the daughter. The piano was paid for by my partners deceased mum so has some sentimental value. The daughter suffers from depression. But as a result gets off with murder as everyone is afraid to upset her.

Well, if it is of sentimental value to her, surely she would be delighted to take possession, no?!

I think she’d be annoyed if we got rid of it. She doesn’t play it though and never has. New it would be worth about 3K.
I think the thing should be sold and the money given to her. It’s been moved twice already and both times at substantial cost.

can you be all like yeah sure we will store it for you then innocently realise the minute you move that there's not actually room and she would do best to find it a home "for the pianos sake" . Or if that means paying pointless removal costs x2 then offer to pay for it to be moved to her house?

There are probably some complicated layers here for her....how long ago did her mum die?

You have a serious partner problem. Why are you dealing with this at all? Your partner is the one who needs to lay down the law with his daughter. If he won't, perhaps you're better off without him.

Her late gran bought it, not her mother, I believe from OP.

DH needs to back you up and say it has to go, or it gets left where it is. (She doesn't need to know you can't do that). If she opts for the latter, try to sell it. If you find a buyer, tell her it can be sold and the money is hers, or collect it. Tell her a move date of 1 week earlier than planned to activate her.

Nope. Say no. Mean it.

Why should you store something huge she has no interest in?

IF you had a vast house, fair enough, but you don't!

I think that YANBU, but I think the age of the daughter affects how much -
If she is 35 and living in a LTR in her adult home, then once you have sent her written notice of the date when her stuff will be destroyed, allow access to it before then, and there is no exceptional circumstance preventing her fetching it like being in full traction at the hospital... she fairly forfeits it all if she doesn't take it to her house asap.
However, if she is 19, living in an unstable 1 year rental shared house or tiny flat with a boyfriend who might not be for long-term keeps, possibly not old enough to hire a van herself...you are a little unreasonable to expect her to be able to take on a piano and all her childhood possessions at short notice. Presumably that sort of situation was why it was all put in storage in the first place. In that situation it would not be unreasonable to hire storage for it or take it to yours for a fixed period longer, possibly at shared cost, if you could afford that yourselves.

I voted YABU because no bugger wants the piano. And (unless one of the big makes) second hand pianos are worth nothing.

Give her a 7-day notice and then get rid. Hopefully you won't have to pay for disposal.

Sadly this is true. I work for a music department in a school and are frequently being offered nearly new pianos. They just arent wanted to buy as most people dont have the room and unless its been looked after, i.e. piano tuner visits etc it wont be in a condition that can immediately be played, particularly if it wasnt tuned after each previous move. Our local music shop has a number of pianos, that it just cant sell. And most parents are looking at buying electric pianos for their kids being smaller, not needing tuning and can be used with headphones.

There’s a piano tuner in Tasmania who takes old pianos. He finds a home for them in his back paddock.
www.abc.net.au/religion/the-piano-tuner/13303942

I don’t know if the link will work outside Australia but you get the idea from the picture.