Post sale of property removal of vehicle

Dancork7

closed on the sale of a site down in Cork (currently live in Dublin) 2 weeks ago, my parents have a house on one side and for years the neighbour on the other side has been parking cars on the site.

-The car in question is a vintage Jag which the neighbour claims is a friends and he would try contact them when I said it the last time I was down.

-My father knows the neighbour and asked him very nicely to move it as I have bought the site about a week ago.

-We asked the real estate agent to contact the previous site owner who said it was the neighbours car and nothing to do with them,

heading down next weekend to start to clear the site back as it’s overgrown so really need the car out the way and said neighbours garden is encroaching over the boundary so I’ll have to deal with that also over the next few weeks so I’m trying to avoid starting a fight the first time I go down as owner!

any advice on next steps here given the above? Calling the Gards seems an escalation but he has been asked more than once

Claw Hammer

You shouldn't have closed the sale until the car was gone. What sort of a solicitor have you? How could you let that happen?

r65

The neighbour says it belongs to a friend of his.

Just tell the neighbour that you are ringing the local scrap metal yard "next Monday" if the car isn't gone by then.

DoctorEdgeWild

Is there a clear-ish path to drag it away from your site? Actually quite a useful way to clear scrub, drag a car along it until it's someone else's problem!

GavPJ

My guess is that it is a worthless piece of scrap that the "owner" thinks is

going to be worth a fortune one day whenever they get around to "rebuilding" it.

Report it to the council as abandoned.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058316241/post-sale-of-property-removal-of-vehicle

Calling AGS would be a pointless escalation because they would have no function in a case like this.

You need contact details for the car owner and get in touch directly.

By the way by do you have a boundary issue ?

Dancork7

Thanks we ended up getting nowhere so rang AGS just with the reg to get the owner of the car but do nothing else, which turned out to be the seller all along. Told sellers solicitor if it’s not gone by today we will get it towed and that gave him the kick needed to remove.

yes we have a boundary we are putting up fencing this afternoon and we have had a surveyor out to map the true boundary to shove the encroaching neighbour back

Bass Reeves

Op and for anyone else in such a situation you should not have closed the sale until the boundary was clearly defined. The car was a minor issue in a way the fact the neighbours garden encroached onto the property should have been sorted before sale.

In a situation like this this all that should have been sorted before closing