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BUYING A HOUSE IN POLAND.. and having the seller strip it bare.. [12]
I read an old posting by Sean bm about the people he bought a house from turning up to remove anything and everything including door handles etc...made me smile...So here is my story...
I bought my farm a few years back from an old Polish guy and his wife who had lived in the place for a long time....
I found out later that he didn,t really want to move , but he was getting old , his legs didn,t work so well , and his family talked him into selling and getting a flat in a small village....
I had a look round the place , decided it was what i wanted , and a short time later handed the estate agent the money in cash for the farm...
While i was back in the UK sorting things out my Polish friend who was taking care of the Polish end told me that the farmer had asked if he could stay in the farm for a few more months as he wanted to gather in the harvest of apples , pears , grapes and whatever...I had no objection to this , as i was not ready to move in yet , and i thought it better the place was occupied rather than empty...
At last , four months later i arrived in Poland and after a few days delay i was able to move into my new home...
The farmer and his wife called several times to show me how to operate the pump in the well , and make sure i was ok , and i was gratefull for this , but i was less than happy about him wandering around the farm picking up whatever he thought might be usefull to him...
He made several more visits to remove bits of garden hose , garden tools , shelves from the workshop , and piles of stuff that i had heaped up to throw away , now i know that much of this stuff isn,t really included in the house price , but for gods sake he had four months living there after i gave him the money in which to remove any stuff he needed....
His visits were becoming more frequent , much of the stuff he was cramming into his old car was just rubbish , i tried to imagine what his flat must look like with all this crap all over the place...
The final straw came when i came home and found him putting in his car my dustbin , along with the broken christmas lights i had thrown in there....Like Sean bm i lost my temper , and in my best Polish i told him if he came again i was going to shoot him... I felt a bit guilty about this later , but it worked , and he did not return...
When i told this tale to my friend down the road he told an even better tale...He had bought a house in need of much repair , and it was months later when the house was startiing to look very nice that the seller turned up , and said he had changed his mind about the sale and wanted to have his house back...for the same price of course....anybody else had a similar experiance...?
