Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Illinois

Without having more information as to the extent of the damage, it really is impossible to help guide you. If the house is worth (for example ONLY) $75,000 and to fix the issue would be (for example ONLY) $1,000, are you really going to forfeit your purchase rights over that? As to the removal - if you're just a renter and it wasn't your property, the landlord most likely has a continuing right to remove his or third party property without your approval as long as it didn't otherwise affect how you lived in the place. But whose property was it? That would be the first one I'd go to, but if the landlord had allowed it, the landlord should be next in line. But without seeing the contract, nobody can really help - it may talk about the condition as - is but allow/require your seller/landlord to remove property not being sold with - and the landlord can't sell third party property, so the landlord probably did both him and you a favor. But if you assumed the items "came with" and they have been removed, and especially if they were listed in the contract as "coming with", then there should be some discussion. First have a local attorney review your contract.