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Our neighbour who used to live on our house and now lives next door (see my other post !!!!!!) has told us that she owns some ironwork in our garden and the koi carp in our pond.
There is nothing in the deeds to say that she owns these items and she wishes to just pop in and take them. We wish to keep them !
We have been trying to negotiate with her to reach a solution, ie she needs to buy them from us as we would wish to replace them but she is not agreeing to this. Following these discussions, she then told us that the ironwork were 'grave markers' and her late father and husband are buried underneath them. Again there is nothing in the deeds to advise that we have graves in our garden and what should happen to the grave markers. We have contacted the previous owners (there are 2) and neither had any idea about this either.
We are obviously quite shocked about this (we have lived here for 2 years) and have done some research into the situation. She has threatened to tell the estate agents etc and any interested parties should we wish to sell in the future and she has said that it could devalue our property by up to 50% which it seems could well be the case.
We asked her to contact the home office to find out how to disinter the graves and ensure that legal and proper paperwork is done so that we have no issues should we wish to sell in the future. She has refused to do this and is still wanting to just come and take the ironwork (but leaving the bones/ashes???) behind.
We believe that she did not do the proper paperwork when she sold the house as she wanted to maximise her sale price (she is very money orientated) so could this be seen as fraud????
Advise on what we do next would be much appreciated.
Thank you
There is nothing in the deeds to say that she owns these items and she wishes to just pop in and take them. We wish to keep them !
We have been trying to negotiate with her to reach a solution, ie she needs to buy them from us as we would wish to replace them but she is not agreeing to this. Following these discussions, she then told us that the ironwork were 'grave markers' and her late father and husband are buried underneath them. Again there is nothing in the deeds to advise that we have graves in our garden and what should happen to the grave markers. We have contacted the previous owners (there are 2) and neither had any idea about this either.
We are obviously quite shocked about this (we have lived here for 2 years) and have done some research into the situation. She has threatened to tell the estate agents etc and any interested parties should we wish to sell in the future and she has said that it could devalue our property by up to 50% which it seems could well be the case.
We asked her to contact the home office to find out how to disinter the graves and ensure that legal and proper paperwork is done so that we have no issues should we wish to sell in the future. She has refused to do this and is still wanting to just come and take the ironwork (but leaving the bones/ashes???) behind.
We believe that she did not do the proper paperwork when she sold the house as she wanted to maximise her sale price (she is very money orientated) so could this be seen as fraud????
Advise on what we do next would be much appreciated.
Thank you
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