An Ethical Dilemma

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For your consideration:

A friend tipped me off to two games sitting in the back yard of what is a rental property with no current tenants. According to Google maps, these games have been there since September, although I don't know when the last tenants moved out. I wasn't able to track down the owners (still trying but the city was no help). The games are most likely ruined, but may have some salvageable parts.

So what would you do?

Tick tock...tick tock...
 

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Not your games, not your property. Don't do anything until you find the owner and ask if you can remove them for free.
 
It's more a legal dilemma. If you enter the property without the owners permission, you are trespassing. If you remove something, now you have added theft.

Have you tried asking the neighbors who owns the property? I know that I have the owners number of the rental next to mine, just in case.

I bet those monitors and pcb's are still in good shape. Would be awesome to grab for sure.
 
Use tax records to contact the owner of the property. Anything else would be theft.
 
For your consideration:

A friend tipped me off to two games sitting in the back yard of what is a rental property with no current tenants. According to Google maps, these games have been there since September, although I don't know when the last tenants moved out. I wasn't able to track down the owners (still trying but the city was no help). The games are most likely ruined, but may have some salvageable parts.

So what would you do?

Tick tock...tick tock...
Well, its not you stuff. No problem there.
 
you have three choices: 1. steal them and become a thief which personally you should be in jail, 2. wait until someone else moves in and try to get ahold the owner through the new tenant, 3. investigate more such as calling the county treasurers office and find out who owns the property because its public record and contact them. i would recommend 2 or 3.
 
Maybe buy some tarps and go cover them up for protection until you can contact the owner. But even that is putting you at risk for trespassing.

Tough to see them deteriorate but you have to go through the proper channels.
 
Good grief, there's no dilemma here. You're either choosing to be a thief or you're not.

Pen a note and pop it in the mail box addressed to property owner. Leave some contact info.
 
If you have to ask strangers on the internet if it's ok to do this, Your already have an ethical dilemma.

There should be tax records for that property some place.

I agree that they're not mine to take (and I didn't and won't), just curious to see how others would view the situation. For more clarification- I did do a search on the tax records and talked to the city and the owners are listed as a company in another state. An online search yielded no results. Through coincidence, I realized that I knew the next-door neighbor and she said it's been abandoned for quite awhile. I also left a note on the door asking permission and didn't hear anything yet. Oddly enough, the only person who told me to just grab them was the woman at the city clerk's office. Guess the best to hope for is keep an eye on them for when they move to the curb.
 
Never should have posted, just take them and enjoy.

If you've confirmed the place is vacant...... this.

Having been in a situation where I had to leave stuff behind... I never left anything I <wanted> outside and unsecured. If they've been in that yard for any length of time, they are "trash".

If someone is going to come into the place and renovate it, they're going to have a dumpster dropped off, and toss shit in(unless they see something they want).

The last tenant is likely long gone, and if they're a "collector", they know better than to leave those things outside, uncovered, and unsecured. If they "just had them", they still wouldn't leave them uncovered in the weather if they had any intention of coming back for them. Unsecured, maybe. But not uncovered.

You could also go up to the house and try looking in the windows to see what the inside looks like.
 
if you guys could let me know your exact location, opinion on the 2nd Amendment, and vacation plans for 2017 ... i'd be grateful

no real reason ;)

Never should have posted, just take them and enjoy.

If you've confirmed the place is vacant...... this.

Having been in a situation where I had to leave stuff behind... I never left anything I <wanted> outside and unsecured. If they've been in that yard for any length of time, they are "trash".

If someone is going to come into the place and renovate it, they're going to have a dumpster dropped off, and toss shit in(unless they see something they want).

The last tenant is likely long gone, and if they're a "collector", they know better than to leave those things outside, uncovered, and unsecured. If they "just had them", they still wouldn't leave them uncovered in the weather if they had any intention of coming back for them. Unsecured, maybe. But not uncovered.

You could also go up to the house and try looking in the windows to see what the inside looks like.
 
if you guys could let me know your exact location, opinion on the 2nd Amendment, and vacation plans for 2017 ... i'd be grateful

no real reason ;)

You forget where I live.......

We don't leave ANYTHING of value outside(except our car... obviously).

I only suggested looking IN the house, to see if it looked lived in or abandoned.

As for my opinion on the 2nd.........

Why don't you break in, and find out. :p
 
I would post on a public forum about robbing someone else property and ask everyones opinion on it.

Thats the smart move.
 
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