[jhugo]

Regardless I would have carefully taken these down and put them in a box on the day I moved in. And then called them (or better, written to them) and given them a reasonable amount of time (maybe a couple months) to collect their property, making it clear that I would dispose of it after that time expired.

[JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B]

> given them a reasonable amount of time (maybe a couple months) to collect their property

Why waste your own time with this? If it's your house, you own everything inside. I would put all the cameras in the trash and forget about it.

[madaxe_again]

Not so. My mother bought a house in France in 1988. The previous owners had a mountain of stuff in the barn that they would come collect “soon”.

25 years passed. My mother started variously selling and disposing of their slowly rotting crap that they evidently were never going to collect, as she wanted to fix the structural issues with the barn, and their stuff was in the way, as it literally filled the entire ground floor.

And then, one day, 30 years later, their children showed up, wanting to collect their inheritance.

They sued. They won. She had to fork over about €100k.

So no, just because you own the house, you don’t own everything in it.

In Europe, it’s also common for you to buy a place, and then when you move in, you find the vendor has taken all of the wiring and plumbing with them. Sometimes they’ll even take things like doors, staircases, floors, you name it.

[maccard]

Doing that is illegal in many places. Here’s a decent summary in the Uk [0]

[0] https://jebaring.co.uk/involuntary-bailee-what-to-do/

[sidewndr46]

Why? After cutting the power to them I'd tell the company if they wanted them back I can take them down and ship them back at my standard rate of $500/hr