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For some background I have (or should probably say had) a friend from high school we'll call her Jessica. We were pretty close even after HS. One point we lived in the same apartment complex. Well anyway, she eventually left the state for school and she had some patio furniture that she didn't want to take and I didn't so she asked if she could leave it at my place, so I agreed and quite enjoyed it.
Anyway, after she left we communicated for a little bit but she must of got busy because she just stopped answering my calls, texts, fb messages etc. Fast forward 3 years and out of the blue I get a call from her. Not asking to catch up or anything but just to say she moved back and was going to pick up her patio furniture.
I tried to talk to her but she just hung up. About an hour later she and I guess her boyfriend come and take it, she didn't even knock it just looked out my window and the furniture is being loaded up.
I went out and tried to talk to her again but she just would give me one word answers. So they get it all loaded up and leave.
Now I don't have any patio furniture and I really came to like it. I know you can say it was still technically hers but I am kind of the mind that when someone leaves something at your place so long and they kind of become yours. Especially when they just blow you off. Am I wrong for feeling that way?
Now I don't have any patio furniture and I really came to like it. I know you can say it was still technically hers but I am kind of the mind that when someone leaves something at your place so long and they kind of become yours. Especially when they just blow you off. Am I wrong for feeling that way?
In most states, in general, it never technically becomes yours unless a judge awards it to you.
For some background I have (or should probably say had) a friend from high school we'll call her Jessica. We were pretty close even after HS. One point we lived in the same apartment complex. Well anyway, she eventually left the state for school and she had some patio furniture that she didn't want to take and I didn't so she asked if she could leave it at my place, so I agreed and quite enjoyed it.
Anyway, after she left we communicated for a little bit but she must of got busy because she just stopped answering my calls, texts, fb messages etc. Fast forward 3 years and out of the blue I get a call from her. Not asking to catch up or anything but just to say she moved back and was going to pick up her patio furniture.
I tried to talk to her but she just hung up. About an hour later she and I guess her boyfriend come and take it, she didn't even knock it just looked out my window and the furniture is being loaded up.
I went out and tried to talk to her again but she just would give me one word answers. So they get it all loaded up and leave.
Now I don't have any patio furniture and I really came to like it. I know you can say it was still technically hers but I am kind of the mind that when someone leaves something at your place so long and they kind of become yours. Especially when they just blow you off. Am I wrong for feeling that way?
I believe that this conversation was probably quite a bit more involved than you are letting on and is key to the situation. Your believing that you had some kind of claim to the furniture is totally wrong.
Possession is nine-tenths of the law and if you had stored it that long, a court might decide in your favor if you wanted to keep it.
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No. The OP agreed to hold the furniture for the duration of her friend's college studies. This amounts to a verbal contract. The OP is now saying that the very terms of the contract give her the right to keep the furniture.
That's really messed up. No judge anywhere would say that backing out on her agreement with her friend is ok.
Boy, what a cautionary note about having a friend store some furniture for the medium-term! Don't even think about asking a "friend" to do you this favor, or the "friend" may just abscond with it.
The furniture is hers. You agreed to store it indefinitely, in exchange for the use of it. If you hadn't wanted to continue storing it, or hadn't wanted to move it if you moved, you could have notified her that she needed to come pick up her stuff, or you would get rid of it. It was hers to take back if she wanted, whenever she wanted.
What is really painful to you is that she stopped talking to you, or communicating with you, for some reason that you don't know. I cannot blame you.
Look at it this way - you got free use of the patio furniture for three years. And you lost her as a friend a long time ago.
If you want to replace it cheaply, look on Craigslist or your local version thereof. People are always selling patio furniture.
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