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Dear Netters,
Maybe one of you is related to a lawyer who knows the answer to
this question. Here's the scenario:
For fourteen years you've rented the first floor apartment of a
former house that is now a triplex and you have the exclusive use of the
basement. Said basement has been full of junk left there by the former
house owners who died and whose children sold it to your present landlord.
You moved in the year after those children gave it over to a real estate
agent to hold and sell for them, and a year before your present landlords
(two men who are partners in buying and renting houses in the area) bought
it.
Now, your sister is moving in to your second bedroom and you are
going to use most of the basement for extra storage and the back room
(former workroom/shop) as a study for the two of you including your
computers. Said basement is full of leftover wood, paint, shades,blinds,
glass, tires, storm windows, junk, furniture and goods, etc. from these
former owners and assorted tenants. It fills cabinets and corners and
rafters. The landlord helps out by having salvagers come and clean out all
this crap that's built up for 20 years or more. You had the thrift shop
come and remove all the salvageble old goods and furniture.
Now you are cleaning up everything getting the place ready, and
when you happen to look way up on top of the tall storage cubbies under the
rafters to sweep off the accumulated dirt and dust of the years, you spot
an old tin box. When you open the partly rusted, little, tin box, lo and
behold, you find 5 twenty dollar bills and 2 hundred dollar bills - $300 in
it.
Okay, legally, since it is no longer feasible or possible to find
the old sellers of 12 years ago, who does the money belong to? If the
tenant had not decided to have a look and dust that area by chance, the box
would have probably stayed up there for who knows how many more years? But
when the landlords bought the house, did that include every little doodad
left behind like this tin box?
If some folks will give me some advice or legal answers, I'll tell
you what I (the tenant, of course) did about the money I discovered
yesterday, and the results.
Thanks,
Sandy P. in Philly
"It's got to be the going not the gettin' there that's good." Harry Chapin
in song "Take the Greyhound"
"But then, you could go both ways!" Scarecrow in movie "The Wizard of Oz"
Sandy Pomerantz, Librarian
Central East Middle School
236 E. Wyoming Ave.
Phila., PA 19120
(215) 456-3037
spomeran@phila.k12.pa.us
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