Forgotten property

[Ranger53]

I recently sold a house located in Oklahoma. I hid some valuables in the attic and forgot to recover them.

I recognize the property now belongs to the new owners. However, they will probably never recover the items unless they remodel that area of the house. Even then, a worker may take the items.

My questions are:

Can I approach the owners with a request to search (in a nondestructive manner) for the items?

What compensation should I offer them?

Can a document be signed beforehand that stipulates the terms?

What if the new owners refuse to honor the agreement after the items are recovered?

The items are valuable but have great sentimental value to me.

 

[Banned_Princess]

I recently sold a house located in Oklahoma. I hid some valuables in the attic and forgot to recover them.

I recognize the property now belongs to the new owners. However, they will probably never recover the items unless they remodel that area of the house. Even then, a worker may take the items.

My questions are:

Can I approach the owners with a request to search (in a nondestructive manner) for the items?

What compensation should I offer them?

Can a document be signed beforehand that stipulates the terms?

What if the new owners refuse to honor the agreement after the items are recovered?

The items are valuable but have great sentimental value to me.

of such great sentiment that you didn't even go into the attic while moving out to get them?

 

[justalayman]

You can ask anything you want to ask.


You can offer, or not offer, any amount of compensation you believe is fair for disturbing them.


If I owned the house, before agreeing to anything, I would ask you specifically where you intended on looking...


then I would tell you to get lost and I would go and get whatever you left there. If it was something that had no value to me, I would give it back to you. If it was valuable (marketable item), then I would offer to sell it to you before I sold it to anybody else.

 

[Ranger53]

of such great sentiment that you didn't even go into the attic while moving out to get them?

I have had memory problems since my head injury 4 years ago.

 

[Banned_Princess]

I have had memory problems since my head injury 4 years ago.

I was thinking about it, and I too might leave something in the attic in my haste to move out of my newly sold home. I moved out of a rental once and forgot the newborn dress my grandmother knitted for my daughter in the attic.

I have had to let it go.

good luck in your recovery.