We bought our place in Oct 2004. The previous owner had a sale In Nov2002, When we bought the place we stipulated that we bought it "as is". The sellers said that it was fine with them, but there were a few items that hadn't been removed yet and that they would sent registered letters to those buyers saying that if they didn't get their purchases that they would forfeit them when we closed on the property.
In Aug 2006 , while there was nobody home , someone came onto our place in the middle of the day and took a stationary TMR mixer and a conveyor that fed into it.They opened gates and cut power cords without our knowledge or permission.We got the sheriff out and they were able to track it down from auction records to a buyer in Iowa. They contacted him and he told them that he had no intention of returning it as he had bought it at the previous owners sale "44 months earlier ". The sheriff went to the Co Attorney and explained it to him . The co attorney said that it wasn't worth his time to get it back for us and that we couldn't press any charges because he did not have any criminal intent when he came on to our place. We were just SOL.
Isn't this a great country???