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I sold my home and the new owners are renting the place back to me for a couple of months. Now they are laying claim to the veggies in my garden -- the ones that I planted, cared for, and weeded long before my home was ever for sale -- because, they say, the veggies are now their property.
In any case, I have to ask -- can they come into the yard and legally harvest my veggies?
This is truly absurd and downright sad that I have to even ask this question, but here is the deal. I sold my home and the new owners are renting the place back to me for a couple of months. Now they are laying claim to the veggies in my garden -- the ones that I planted, cared for, and weeded long before my home was ever for sale -- because, they say, the veggies are now their property. Can you imagine the sheer pettiness and greed of these people?
In any case, I have to ask -- can they come into the yard and legally harvest my veggies?
Those are no longer YOUR vegetables, they belong to the NEW OWNERS since you sold the home.
You have to let go. You sold the house and are technically only a renter. When they bought your home, the garden and the contents are part of that sale. Don't get emotionally attached to the vegetables, they were born to die anyway.
You sold the house and are technically only a renter. When they bought your home, the garden and the contents are part of that sale.
True enough, but consider it this way. If you are a landlord and rent a house to some tenants who then go out and buy seeds and grow a garden, then technically you have the right to come and take the harvest.
There is the law and there is common decency . . . good lord.
There is the law and there is common decency . . . good lord.
Unless they're refusing to allow you to share the harvest, I don't see how they're failing to show common decency.
You have a legal right to not do any work to maintain the garden if you choose. Although imo that would be petty.
If you rented a home to some tenants who then grew a garden, would you come harvest their vegetables?
Not the same. You sold your house, land, garden, trees, grass, landscaping, fences, etc. to the new owner. Done deal.
A renter presumably would add any new improvements only with the consent of the owner and there would be some agreement (written, spoken, or implied) as to terms of use, transfer upon your leaving, etc.
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