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Generally my Google-Fu is quite strong, and most of the time I can find answers for my questions without trouble. But I'm having a hard time with this one.
I have a tenant who has left some of her belongings after move out. Its close to 30 days after they vacated the premises (non-renewal of lease), and I still have a big-screen TV (its crap), some small furniture and a microwave oven. As well as an outside shed full of crap.
I heard that I've got to store the stuff for 30 days until its officially considered abandoned. At that point, I can do with the items as I wish, correct? Even sell them locally to pay for damages incurred by the tenant over and beyond the scope of her security deposit??
I'm sorry I don't know Penn's laws on this. I just want to say that if you can discard things after 30 days, then I hate you.
In Idaho, if substantial belongs are left behind, and you don't have them sign in the lease that you have the right to dispose after keys are returned, or property is abandoned, then you have to go through the full eviction process, and have the sheriff move their stuff out. I believe at that point, they store it for 3 years and then attempt to auction it off.
This the same thing I tried, but it returns a lot of opinions, blogs, personal stories and a bunch of paid-for forms and information
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I was looking for actual law. Or at least a .gov site with guidelines.
Is there anything written in the lease about abandoned property?
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