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I waited to post this until there was somewhat of a resolution. Back in October my father sadly passed away, and we decided to move into a smaller house owned by my brother. We also looked around to sell our old house but it had some foundation problems and we ended up holding on to it up until April or so.
One day my mom was attending to some duties at the old house when a guy who lives on that street, who is a local realtor at a real estate company in town showed up and offered my mom a certain amount for the house on the spot. It's worth more than than that, but my mom wanted to be rid of it so she said yes. About a week later she signed the contract, and everything was good. The contract stated that we had until the closing date, June 20th, to get whatever we wanted out of the house. After the 20th, anything left behind is no longer ours. No problem.
We gave the realtor (let's call him A) a key so he could bring in an inspector to assess the damage the house had, which seemed okay at the time.
Then one day my mom went over there to pack up stuff and the realtor's truck was in the driveway and our fireplace grate was in the back. My mom went inside (and found our cooler on the porch) and A, his girlfriend and his father were carrying around our stuff.
My mom said "What the hell are you doing with our things?" A said "they were just sitting in the living room so I didn't think you wanted them anymore." My mom told him to get our grate out of his truck, and go. We had lots of large furniture in the living room waiting for the movers, and one was a wardrobe from my bedroom. A put his hand on it and asked her "were you planning on keeping this?"
My mom just went "get the hell out!" They left and thankfully they didn't seem to have taken anything although some things had been brought upstairs and my father's ham radio had been unplugged and his computer monitor had been moved.
My mom then decided to call her lawyer, who called A's lawyer and tore him a new one, threatening to send a letter to the real estate board about A's misconduct. The lawyer basically said "don't do that, it'll all be okay, I'll talk to him, he's just young and inexperienced." Meanwhile, my mom asked the neighbours to call her if they saw him doing things at the house. Which they did, a couple of times, although he wasn't doing much without the key, just poking around. At this point the realtor no longer has the key because our lawyer got it back.
A few days later, my mom went to the house to pack and discovered there was no power. How odd. Since this will make it impossible to pack up the basement, she goes out to ask the neighbours if they have power. On the way out she happened to look out and the power lines have been cut. Like they are literally hanging in two pieces. Mom asked the neighbours and the power company had come that morning and cut the power. What the heck? So my mom calls them up and asked them why, and it turned out A called them, told them he was the homeowner, and requested that the power be cut, so they came out and cut it without actually checking to see if he was the homeowner or not, which he is not, not until the 20th. My mom called her lawyer again, who called A's lawyer AGAIN, same conversation. Power was restored.
Couple weeks went by without incident, until mom and my brother were at the house and my brother noticed someone digging up the front yard. It turned out A pulled the exact same thing with the gas company and they had not checked to see if he was actually the homeowner either. Lawyer was called, new one was tore, the holes in the yard were filled back in. My mom has put everything down on paper and given it to her lawyer, and is planning on sending it to the real estate board as soon as she gets her money. Because at this point her stress has reached dangerous levels.
Finally, on the 19th, my mom was just bringing out the last few things out of the house when A pulls up and says "have you emptied the garage yet?" It turned out that our contract states that the garage must be emptied by the closing date. Our fault for missing it, but a little odd considering the house doesn't need to be emptied, we just have until the 20th to take what we want. Especially since A has said he plans to tear down the house and pretty much all that is in the garage is lumber (my mom had already moved bicycles and equipment). But whatever. My mom tells him she'll get it emptied and A tells her to open the garage and let him look at it. My mom says no, mainly because she's sick of this guy acting like the house and everything in it belong to him. He even told one of the neighbours that the house is his property.
We did get the garage emptied in time, thankfully, although we had to hire a mover.
It just boggles my mind that a realtor doesn't know enough to know that until he has paid for a house and reached the closing date, the house is not his. Yet he seems completely incapable of grasping this since he tried to take our stuff, and then attempted to cut off the gas and power. Why would he think cutting off the gas would work when cutting off the power didn't?
Anyway, hopefully this is pretty much over. My mom finally received her money, closing date was yesterday so hopefully we won't have to deal with him anymore. Although my mom plans on sending a letter to the real estate board, as I said before. We're so relieved it's over we're planning on going out to celebrate. If I forgot to mention anything else, I'll post here.
One day my mom was attending to some duties at the old house when a guy who lives on that street, who is a local realtor at a real estate company in town showed up and offered my mom a certain amount for the house on the spot. It's worth more than than that, but my mom wanted to be rid of it so she said yes. About a week later she signed the contract, and everything was good. The contract stated that we had until the closing date, June 20th, to get whatever we wanted out of the house. After the 20th, anything left behind is no longer ours. No problem.
We gave the realtor (let's call him A) a key so he could bring in an inspector to assess the damage the house had, which seemed okay at the time.
Then one day my mom went over there to pack up stuff and the realtor's truck was in the driveway and our fireplace grate was in the back. My mom went inside (and found our cooler on the porch) and A, his girlfriend and his father were carrying around our stuff.
My mom said "What the hell are you doing with our things?" A said "they were just sitting in the living room so I didn't think you wanted them anymore." My mom told him to get our grate out of his truck, and go. We had lots of large furniture in the living room waiting for the movers, and one was a wardrobe from my bedroom. A put his hand on it and asked her "were you planning on keeping this?"
My mom just went "get the hell out!" They left and thankfully they didn't seem to have taken anything although some things had been brought upstairs and my father's ham radio had been unplugged and his computer monitor had been moved.
My mom then decided to call her lawyer, who called A's lawyer and tore him a new one, threatening to send a letter to the real estate board about A's misconduct. The lawyer basically said "don't do that, it'll all be okay, I'll talk to him, he's just young and inexperienced." Meanwhile, my mom asked the neighbours to call her if they saw him doing things at the house. Which they did, a couple of times, although he wasn't doing much without the key, just poking around. At this point the realtor no longer has the key because our lawyer got it back.
A few days later, my mom went to the house to pack and discovered there was no power. How odd. Since this will make it impossible to pack up the basement, she goes out to ask the neighbours if they have power. On the way out she happened to look out and the power lines have been cut. Like they are literally hanging in two pieces. Mom asked the neighbours and the power company had come that morning and cut the power. What the heck? So my mom calls them up and asked them why, and it turned out A called them, told them he was the homeowner, and requested that the power be cut, so they came out and cut it without actually checking to see if he was the homeowner or not, which he is not, not until the 20th. My mom called her lawyer again, who called A's lawyer AGAIN, same conversation. Power was restored.
Couple weeks went by without incident, until mom and my brother were at the house and my brother noticed someone digging up the front yard. It turned out A pulled the exact same thing with the gas company and they had not checked to see if he was actually the homeowner either. Lawyer was called, new one was tore, the holes in the yard were filled back in. My mom has put everything down on paper and given it to her lawyer, and is planning on sending it to the real estate board as soon as she gets her money. Because at this point her stress has reached dangerous levels.
Finally, on the 19th, my mom was just bringing out the last few things out of the house when A pulls up and says "have you emptied the garage yet?" It turned out that our contract states that the garage must be emptied by the closing date. Our fault for missing it, but a little odd considering the house doesn't need to be emptied, we just have until the 20th to take what we want. Especially since A has said he plans to tear down the house and pretty much all that is in the garage is lumber (my mom had already moved bicycles and equipment). But whatever. My mom tells him she'll get it emptied and A tells her to open the garage and let him look at it. My mom says no, mainly because she's sick of this guy acting like the house and everything in it belong to him. He even told one of the neighbours that the house is his property.
We did get the garage emptied in time, thankfully, although we had to hire a mover.
It just boggles my mind that a realtor doesn't know enough to know that until he has paid for a house and reached the closing date, the house is not his. Yet he seems completely incapable of grasping this since he tried to take our stuff, and then attempted to cut off the gas and power. Why would he think cutting off the gas would work when cutting off the power didn't?
Anyway, hopefully this is pretty much over. My mom finally received her money, closing date was yesterday so hopefully we won't have to deal with him anymore. Although my mom plans on sending a letter to the real estate board, as I said before. We're so relieved it's over we're planning on going out to celebrate. If I forgot to mention anything else, I'll post here.
I'm sorry for your family's loss, and second (third?) the hope that karma bites this guy in the form of the real estate board 
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