AIBU about previous owner's compost...

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Previous owners of my house left a full compost bin of small animal bedding and poo in the (very small) garden.

I want the space in the garden so I am faced with the task of clearing out their old poo and carrying it through the house as there is no access.

There is no way I can use the waste as it does not appear to be composted at all, even at the bottom of the container.

I really don't know if IABU to think they should have sorted this out before they left so, am I?

No yanbu! def not!! they should have had the courtesy to clean up their mess before they left!

I moved into a house a few years ago and the previous tenant had stuffed the recycling bin full of bin liners of nappys and household waste and it was such a hassle getting it shifted cause the bins only get emptied once a fortnight.

YAB a little bit U

If you leave it for a few months it will compost down. Perhaps ask a passing man to wee on it to speed up the process?

Do you have to clear the space immediately? If you wait a little while you will have lovely compost which will be great for the garden.

I don't think you are; but from my experience when moving in people are lazy c*nts. And you have to expect that and get on with it?

We stipulated (via solicitors etc.) on the last house that the loft be cleared out of all the old shite that was in there.

When we moved in the was a broken old chair, a bag of sand, some breeze blocks, some manky old jumpers, loads of breeze block dust all over the only (badly) boarded part, a load of carrier bags, some old carpet - you get the idea.

It just wasn't worth going back to the solicitors and going through the motions to get them to sort it; that's what most people think. "Well they won?t bother chasing us about that."

Not as bad as next door when they moved in the dirty fuckers hadn't cleaned a thing, mouse shit, dog hair, mould on the windows, dust and shite everywhere. Disgusting.

Ah I'm glad I am not totally U. They had the house on the market for about 6 months so they could have at least stopped building it up.

Good tip, I could get DP to wee on it...

Our friends moved into repossesed place, i have never seen anything like it. Waist-high junk/rubbish/clutter in every single room, not just in the corners but literally filling the room, stunk like nothing else.

Wierdest thing was, kitchen walls were covered in fake-wood pannelling, ripped it all off... and found a door behind it. Took a lot of courage to open that door, we were convinced we would find a dead body! Was just a pantry with a few old tins in it - some people are so wierd.

Can you add some grass clippings to speed up the process - the urine idea was good, too! We compost our animal bedding, and when mixed with other stuff like veg peelings, it composts really quickly.

Can't believe the other stuff, though!

We were told that there was a safe in the house and we would be told where it was when we moved in. Fair enough.

On moving in, we found that the previous owners had taken the v expensive lid of the safe with them(the container part was sunk into concrete) and the keys. We were left with a metal lined hole in an awkward place!

Our solicitor (who happened to be my Dad), negotiated with the owner on our behalf ("I never said the safe would be useable" she said) and we met her in a motorway service station where she handed over the lid, keys and we handed over £100. This was 25 years ago so it was quite a lot of money. Rotten cow, but quite funny.

I think YAB a bit U.

You surely knew the compost bin was there before you bought the house, and if you had wanted to be moved you could have stipulated that as part of the contract. How were they to know you didn't want it if you didn't tell them?

The previous owners of my hjouse left 3 bins of composting rubbish. I was pathetically grateful. Perhaps YAB a tad U, they probably thought they were being kind.