New bench top!

[Matthew3901]

So i am helping a friend out who is going theough forecloser. In return she gave me a cabinet and counter top for my garage it is composit or Formica. Measures at 10 feet also may be gettin several other free cabinets sunday out of her house before thebank changes the locks.

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[Dick in Wisconsin]

Did you realize what you're doing is stealing?

The cabinets and countertops are part of the real estate. Removing them ahead of an impending foreclosure is theft.

Think twice about what you're doing and taking any more stuff from the house.

 

[Bill Bowman]

So,....if i understand this correctly, you helped out a friend who isn't making his/her house payments, and in return, said friend gives you the cabinets that the bank really owns. Nice.

 

[CNGsaves]

Easy there guys . . . . . . loose items IN GARAGE are NOT fixtures.

. . . . . thus, they are not owned by bank in foreclosure.

OP surely is not getting bathroom vanity/sink or kitchen cabinets !!

In all likelyhood, all the stuff/"junk" in garage would have been thrown out by the bank anyway.

 

[Dick in Wisconsin]

Easy there guys . . . . . . loose items IN GARAGE are NOT fixtures. . . . . . thus, they are not owned by bank in foreclosure.

Mr. CNG is correct. "Loose items" not attached to the real estate in most states would be personal property and do not belong to the lender.

But water heater, attached cabinets and countertops, a free standing tube that was plumbed with running water and a drain, furnace, A/C unit, laundry tubes, light fixtures, garage doors, garage door openers, deck, fireplace screen attached to the fireplace, central vac, water softner, well pressure tank, mail box on a post ...

wiring, circuit breakers, electrical panel, windows, doors, plumbing fixture and pipe ...

are ALL considered by statute in most states to be part of the real estate. Strip the house and trust me ... the lender will send the sheriff.

 

[CNGsaves]

^ ^ ^ Agree. Virtually ANY thing attached is a fixture. That also includes mailbox that is attached to house.

That happened to me where seller of house had shady son and he removed the mailbox from frontporch wall !! I was NOT pleased, to say the least !!

I complained to realtor and mailbox was re-attached to house before I closed on the house.

 

[Matthew3901]

ok a few clarifications

1. the items in question were not attached to the house

2. we are not stripping anything ( eg kitchen cabinets appliances ,water heater, attached cabinets and countertops, a free standing tube that was plumbed with running water and a drain, furnace, A/C unit, laundry tubes, light fixtures, garage doors, garage door openers, deck, fireplace screen attached to the fireplace, central vac, water softner, well pressure tank, mail box on a post ... wiring, circuit breakers, electrical panel, windows, doors, plumbing fixture and pipe ..etc.)

3. All cabinets under said counter in question were used in an office not attached or installed to said house.

4. all items not considered personal property ARE still going with the house

I APOLOGIZE for implying I was stealing ahead of a bank sale.

 

[Bill Bowman]

Gotcha.

 

[Dick in Wisconsin]

Thanks for clarifying. We just didn't want you to end up in jail ... which has happened.

 

[Matthew3901]

Yeah I want to stay out of trouble too

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[evildky]

Did you realize what you're doing is stealing?

The cabinets and countertops are part of the real estate. Removing them ahead of an impending foreclosure is theft.

Think twice about what you're doing and taking any more stuff from the house.

Morally yes it would be theft, legally sadly it's not. Until the foreclosure has happened and the real estate commissioner closes the sale, the defendant has full legal right of ownership. Had to foreclose on a house to get possession after a young guy died, his father stripped the house fo copper before we got the house back.