Bought A House With All It’s Contents, It Was Emptied Out While The Sale Processed.

Location: Michigan

So my husband and I looked a house that was being sold with apart of the description stating “The seller would like to leave personal property which is on site”. We put a bid in and our offer was accepted. We visited the home periodically throughout the process in which we found things being moved around. We found out that the sellers daughter has been going in and out of the house taking things. We added to our contract that all current furnishings, decorations and personal belongings are to be sold with the house as is. And we even mentioned specific items we wanted such as a piano, curio cabinet, etc. It was mentioned to us by the sellers realtor that they intended to change the locks to keep the daughter from entering the home again.

When we arrived after closing today, the house was pretty much emptied out. We immediately called our realtor, who called the sellers realtor, who told us that the daughter had recently purchased a storage until and cleared the house out. We were absolutely dumbfounded by the realtors answer as she knew it was in contract the items were to stay.

It was advised by our realtor to send her videos and photos we had of the house during our previous visits, and to take a new video walk through to show everything missing. I asked if we should file a police report as everything is in contract and we have proof of the items in house prior to closing and the obviously empty house. And to also note that the daughter most likely has a storage unit of all the belongings. We were asked to wait until she can contact the brokers tomorrow to make a plan of action, before taking any action including filing a police report.

As it’s currently 630pm, we’ll be waiting on a call tomorrow for advice from realtor of how to proceed. But in the mean time, I’d like to ask here for advice. TIA