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Do what "ultrarunner" said. Move the stuff to storage and have her sign for it asap. Pay for a week in a local drug motel and move on. Lesson learned. Don't let her back in.
If she's been gone with no contact for a week, hasn't she legally given up her right to claim tenancy? Can't OP claim she moved out and abandoned her property? She's obviously been living somewhere else for the week she's been gone...
First of all: She's been 'helping' by yelling at the kids. Some help with my epileptic wife, but lately it's been more pain than help.
We've done this before, and only once before was it ever this bad. She doesn't do chores, in fact she piles more chores on the kids by insisting that the chores they do, they do MORE... in any case, we heard from her last night. She was with a friend who had been recovering from surgery.
Fine.
If we had the money for a storage space, we'd have put her stuff there instead of in our house.
I'm looking for the right way to word the 'eviction' notice. This being CA, she is considered resident whether she pays(in any way) or not. I'll be making more than one copy of course.
How does a homeless person have a house full of expensive stuff?
Talk to the sheriff.
From storage. She is on welfare, and up until she lost her child she had money. She's sold some of it. Some of it is heirlooms, and so on. Homeless doesn't mean possessionless. I know. I was once.
She's not a druggie(one of the early things we asked was a drug screening). She has anxiety problems(Medicated legally for it) and a lot of old injuries. We get that. We're also disabled, however, enough is enough. She's disruptive and aggressively OCD.
We served the notice. She was out a couple of days before the final notice. She put most of her stuff into storage herself, then took off. We made it clear that after 60 days, any possessions she left in our care would be disposed of at our discretion. I never heard from her, directly, again, so we disposed of the 'leftovers'. Mostly clothes.
My wife keeps an eye on her facebook, and apparently she hasn't learned her lesson. She has been in and out of the same situation she was in with us, still hasn't gotten her life together in any meaningful way and is frequently homeless.
These people who do not learn from the past make me feel sad, and tired. I'm 56 now, and I need peace and quiet.
Yes we take in 'strays' but usually they're people we already knew. This was the first time we took in a relative stranger.
Thanks so much for the update. It was a sad situation but it's good to know that you're now back to enjoying your home in peace and quiet!
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