When can I dispose of my renter's stuff?

[tatertop]

This is a commercial property.
He split three months ago.
His stuff (displays and samples) fills my building.
I just called him. He hung up on me.

[northzax]

1. check your local laws

call the better business bureau and ask them.

[tatertop]

2. Good idea.

[northzax]

4. what they'll likely tell you to do

unless you have a specified information about it in your lease or a statue relevant to it, is send him a certified letter giving him a reasonable deadline (say, a week from receipt) to retrieve his property, before you will dispose of it for him.

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Ooh, what type of samples?

Maybe you could sell them?

[SoCalDem]

5. Box them up, and put them in storage. Bill him for the storage

and if he refuses to pay, let the storage facility dispose of them.. If you send him a registered mail informing him about his abandoned property, and your attempts to secure it, he can't have a problem with it.

and the storage rent is probably cheaper than the lost rent of the space he semi-vacated..

[tatertop]

7. It is A LOT of stuff.

I wish that were an option but that would be
virtually impossible.

[Maddy McCall]

6. Put his shit on the curb.

Did he quit paying rent three months ago? Send him an eviction notice (in accordance with your state laws) and include a time and date for him to come pick up his stuff.

Then, put his shit on the curb if he doesn't come get it.

[SoCalDem]

8. Then sell it :) Any good stuff???

What's he got :)

[tatertop]

10. carpet samples, wood samples, displays, some carpets

[tatertop]

9. This stuff would fill two 24 foot trucks to the brim

[Maddy McCall]

13. Bill him for the hours it takes for you to put it on the curb.

Or have a rummage sale, and put the money from the sale of the stuff into an envelope, deducting your hours for the time you worked at the rummage sale, and keep the balance for back rent.

Believe me, people will come buy the stuff. Make it a buy one for a quarter, get one free. I'm not kidding.

Just don't let my father know you are doing this, or he'll be there with his pick-up truck and trailer, and I'll have to help him unload it.

[tatertop]

14. I fear that is how it will end up

[Syncronaut Seven]

11. You near portland or?

I'll help you! I can squeeze gold out of shit! Plus, I know some non profits that take stuff like that.

[tatertop]

12. Not near Portland. Non profits, good idea.