Recently
I went to check on one of my buy-to-let flats in Bury St Edmunds. The tenant left owing three months rent never
to be heard of again. In a little bit of
a rush to leave he inadvertently left a number of boxes for his online cosmetics business.
I
had visited the house on a number of occasions, each time the tenant was hard
at work selling cosmetics online, which
he bought in bulk and sold for a small profit. As his business expanded, he
asked me if i could rent out my garage to help him store his excess stock . He
made me a nice offer and I accepted.
However
when he did not pay his rent for three months and I served him with notice to
depart, he obviously forgot about his inventory left in my garage. His midnight flight into the night, was
actually a blessing because it meant i did not need to go through the courts.
Eventually,
the tenant returned to collect his inventory but i had checked with the solicitors
that because he had not paid rent on the addition storage space and because it
was a commercial agreement rather than a residential agreement, the same rules
did not apply and I had every right to keep the stock.
I therefore
started looking within the boxes to see what could be salvaged and sold. It transpired that there was a number of items
of lipstick, nail polish and false eyes lashes. I contacted a number of online
companies to buy the inventory from me. I received a great offer from The Glamour Girl who purchased the
whole stock from me including 5,000 pairs of false
eyelashes
