receive an inheritance It does not always represent an economic advantage, especially when among the inherited assets there are lands or properties that generate expenses and that are difficult to sell. This is exactly what happened to a man in Italy, who inherited 23 plots of land and is now trying to give them away because he claims that they only generate expenses and he cannot find anyone who wants to buy them.
The case occurred in Travo, a small municipality in the Italian province of Piacenza, where the owner has several plots of forest and meadows that cannot be used for construction. According to information published by Il Corriere di Bolognatired of paying taxes and other expenses for land that does not generate any type of benefit, decided to publish an ad on Facebook to offer it for free to anyone interested.
However, getting rid of the land is not being as easy as he expected, since he even tried to give it to the City Council, but the administration did not want to accept it either. As the mayor explained, keeping those plots would mean assuming new expenses without obtaining any advantage for the municipality.
It offers the 23 plots of land for free, but whoever accepts them will have to bear the costs
The owner, who lives in Milan, explained in a local Facebook group that he had inherited the plots and wanted to get rid of them. “I have several plots of land located in the municipality of Travo, all of them composed of forests or meadows and, in any case, not buildable, which I would like to get rid of,” he noted in his advertisement.
In total, there are 23 plots of different sizes, some very small, which are spread across different areas and are not adjacent to each other. Among them there are scrub lands and others classified as arable lands.
The man acknowledged that he does not know the area personally and that he cannot offer too many details about access or the characteristics of each plot, beyond the information that appears in the property registry.
Of course, he has set a condition for whoever wants to keep the lands and who must keep all of them, since he is not willing to hand them over separately.
Furthermore, although he does not ask for money for them, the new owner will have to assume the taxes, notary fees and all the costs necessary to formalize the change of ownership.
The offer has aroused the interest of some users, to the point that the man has already sent the documentation of the plots to the first interested person. If they do not finally reach an agreement, they will continue to respond to requests on a first-come, first-served basis.
The City Council rejects keeping the land because it would involve an expense
Before publishing the advertisement, the owner had tried to solve the problem by offering the plots to the Travo City Council so that they could be used for some use of public interest.
As he explained, the previous year he contacted the municipal technical office to propose the donation, but did not receive a response that would allow the operation to be completed.
The mayor, Roberta Valla, explained that the municipality has no interest in keeping these lands because their maintenance could represent an additional expense for the public coffers. “They would also be a cost to us, because we wouldn’t know what to do with them,” he said.
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The problem is that these are small, non-buildable plots that, in addition to not generating income, may require conservation and maintenance work.