Hello everyone!

I would like to thank you for all your assistance yesterday in helping me put to bed this little saga :) The good news is that, after going on the land registry it has been confirmed the land is in fact mine and everything was done properly with everything transferred. Thankfully Herbert did his due diligence after all and everything appears above board. I do apologise I couldn't respond to you all last night, I called my son round to help me look through my old documents in the loft to see if we could find the originals and thankfully they were there. We've made a bit of a mess but now have all the original invoices, legal documents as such as well as a bank statement from the time. I suppose cleaning that up is my next project haha.

We did nip round to the block of flats to let the people know though only two were in. The first lady seemed very upset but we gave her the contact details I was given at the time and she said she would try to pursue the company. I can only wish her the best of luck. The second family were not very happy at all and have informed me they intend to dispute this in the courts as they still feel that as they paid the most money they're entitled to the land. I hope they see reason before they waste even more money on this :(

Oh! One thing that might be of interest to you all, I spoke to another tenant who said everyone in the building was offered the land in an "auction" and she stumped up a few thousand pounds but then the developer informed her that all the other buyers had pulled out. She said it felt very fishy when he said it had to be done in cash and he could handle it all "in-house" so to speak to cut down on "land tax". So I suppose no solicitors or property agents involved. She said she pulled out then but assumes he pulled the same con on the others. It's very sad but I suppose you can only live and learn.

My son wants me to pursue the tenants for criminal damage but I think these people have suffered enough financial misfortune so I'd rather just let everyone move on. Nothing that a new fence and some evergrow can't fix :) Once again thank you all and I hope you all have a good week.

Many thanks,

Marcus

EDIT: I shall stick around a little bit if anyone has any further questions or any proposals on shielding myself from future legal damage though I suppose the case would be open and shut? Once again, any thanks