minpinminpin2
Junior Member
Virginia.
we rented a house from 11/2009 to 1/2010. House was left to the landlord because her mother died some 4 years ago. Before we rented the house, her son used the house as a storage place for all of his junk. (thousands of old albums and clothes mostly). The house was littered with trash and piles of albums everywhere, most of which where infested with bugs and roaches and you could not even walk through the home. There were no utilities on. The house was being run down and destroyed. This is the reason why she kicked her son out and asked that we move in and clean up and repair house. She asked us to dispose of anything we did not want and we could keep what we wanted. We paid no rent for the first 5 months and then paid the county monthly for back taxes. The landlord passed away the beginning of November 2009. At this time, we prepared to move out because we knew her brother would be taking possession of the house. When we moved, we moved out all of the things the landord said we could keep. Now the son has charged us with grand larceny for taking items from the home. The judge let this go to grand jury BECAUSE THE SON DID NOT WANT TO COME TO SOME KIND OF SETTLEMENT OR MAKE THIS A CIVIL CASE? The son took pictures of a table and refrigerator that was in our current backyard as proof that we stole these items. One last thing, when the son moved out he came back for his clothes. We asked him to remove the albums on numerous occassions but never did because I believe he had no where to store them. So, we moved them to a friends garage. Son called several times asking for the albums, but when we tried to contact friend, we could not get in touch with him. Even went by the house, no one there. My question is, does the son have a case? Judge said that since we did not get permission from the son, then we are at fault. Also, items that we were told we could have did not belong to the son but the landlords mother.
we rented a house from 11/2009 to 1/2010. House was left to the landlord because her mother died some 4 years ago. Before we rented the house, her son used the house as a storage place for all of his junk. (thousands of old albums and clothes mostly). The house was littered with trash and piles of albums everywhere, most of which where infested with bugs and roaches and you could not even walk through the home. There were no utilities on. The house was being run down and destroyed. This is the reason why she kicked her son out and asked that we move in and clean up and repair house. She asked us to dispose of anything we did not want and we could keep what we wanted. We paid no rent for the first 5 months and then paid the county monthly for back taxes. The landlord passed away the beginning of November 2009. At this time, we prepared to move out because we knew her brother would be taking possession of the house. When we moved, we moved out all of the things the landord said we could keep. Now the son has charged us with grand larceny for taking items from the home. The judge let this go to grand jury BECAUSE THE SON DID NOT WANT TO COME TO SOME KIND OF SETTLEMENT OR MAKE THIS A CIVIL CASE? The son took pictures of a table and refrigerator that was in our current backyard as proof that we stole these items. One last thing, when the son moved out he came back for his clothes. We asked him to remove the albums on numerous occassions but never did because I believe he had no where to store them. So, we moved them to a friends garage. Son called several times asking for the albums, but when we tried to contact friend, we could not get in touch with him. Even went by the house, no one there. My question is, does the son have a case? Judge said that since we did not get permission from the son, then we are at fault. Also, items that we were told we could have did not belong to the son but the landlords mother.
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