Can this be true

[Maggi]

Hi,
I rent a small storage yard on a farm where I store my vehicles and workshop equipment.
All rent demands paid up to date. Haven't been to the yard for a month, had to go south last week to look after my grandkids. looking on ebay I found loads of my equipment for sale. I had a Range rover which was my pride and joy, it now sits broken in this breakers yard along with 3 other vehicles. I phoned the breakers yard, and he reckons he bought them from the farmer landlord. Contact the landlord and he decided to clear all my plant and vehicles and sold them as scrap. Called the police and so far they told me it must be bailiffs,(Muppets) I have no debt and all the items are mine and paid for.
The items add up to £120k, can, in this day and age this really happen, can I take the landlord to court. Help please. or wake me up.

 

[Scott@KarmaContent]

You should be seeking the advice of a solicitor really.

 

[Maggi]

Thanks Scott

 

[warren cass]

I agree with Scott.

Did you have a tenancy agreement/contract? Did he give notice?

 

[Newchodge]

Contact DVLA with the registration details of the vehicles and tell them that, as far as you are concerned they have been stolen, and explain the circumstances. Then tell the police where the stolen vehicles are to be found. This will safeguard them for you for the time being.

 

[Diane@JFS]

Many thanks for your enquiry. We would firstly ask how the landlord has managed to sell your vehicles when the V5 registration document would be in your possesion and under your name? Secondly, does your tenancy provide a notice period for terminating the tenancy?

Should you require any legal asistance with this matter, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Diane France
Joseph Frasier Solicitors

 

[deniser]

Did the Landlord not provide any kind of explanation?

Could he have thought you had abandoned the property and its contents?

Does he have your contact details?

 

[MikeJ]

I wondered if the landlord had gone bust or had a court order against him, and let a bailiff take the contents?

 

[Simon.P]

blimey thats awful. hope you get a resolution soon

 

[HFE Signs]

Hopefully you have a contract and can prove you've made payments? It seem very drastic measures for no genuine reason..

 

[Maggi]

Thanks everyone for your answers and concerns,
The rent was up to date, I have all V5's, the landlord sold items to a car breakers yard and a lot of these now sits on eBay, the landlord refuses to tell me the values or the whereabouts of any of the remaining items, The landlord have my address and it was done while I was away for 2 weeks, as for the police Nth York's they told me to contact a solicitor as its probably bailiffs, can you believe it, they dragged my last 20yr. credit history up and was looking for CCJ as I do think they thought I was after an insurance claim.
We have the Tour de France here this weekend, perhaps when they come off point duty they might react.

 

[Newchodge]

You really need to tell DVLA about this. The breakers have an obligation to have the registration document before they accept vehicles, which they clearly don't have.

 

[Vectis]

This really does sound like only half the story. The landlord has taken, and sold, £120k of the tenant's goods for no reason and without any notice? Plus the fact that the police weren't, apparently, interested in the 'theft' (if that's what it was).

There has to be more to this than what is being told here.

 

[Maggi]

Sorry Vectis, What you see is what you got and that's the truth.

 

[kelvin1950]

Sorry Vectis, What you see is what you got and that's the truth.

So, have you contacted the DVLA as Newchodge has suggested twice? I can reinforce that breakers are not legally supposed to accept a vehicle without the V5. If that were not the case, I'd be nicking cars and flogging them right, left and centre!!! (Joke, but think about it.)

 

[tony84]

So, have you contacted the DVLA as Newchodge has suggested twice? I can reinforce that breakers are not legally supposed to accept a vehicle without the V5. If that were not the case, I'd be nicking cars and flogging them right, left and centre!!! (Joke, but think about it.)

Are you the landlord?

Sorry not much help to the OP.

 

[GRDCredit]

Haven't been to the yard for a month, had to go south last week to look after my grandkids. looking on ebay I found loads of my equipment for sale..

I am sorry but I am also slightly cynical about this being the whole story.

It seems a hell of a coincidence to me that you were doing a random search on ebay and saw your stuff there.

I am not clear from your posts either why the landlord has done what he has done - have you asked him the direct question

If what you say is 100% of the story then it is theft, pure and simple and the you need to make sure the police are involved as well as seeing a solicitor asap

 

[kelvin1950]

Are you the landlord?

Sorry not much help to the OP.

You're right there, you're no help whatsoever.

 

[roydmoorian]

Reading between the lines; can you confirm that these goods were not ex the company you were talking about winding up in a previous post and had the landlord previously given notice to quit so that he could have the facilities free to benefit from "La Tour" ?