It was your responsibility to pick up the certified mail in a timely manner. If the envelope is post marked less than 30 days, she didn't give you the 30 days notice required. But judges would cut slack on that for a few days. Also, you are required to mitigate your damages by trying to rent the place. Loosing those "couple weeks" to look for a tenant is on you. Without more info from you, (what is the postmark date on the envelope? What is the date of the 1st notice you got from the post office?), I'd say you can't do anything about the 30 day notice issue. Other issue is if your state require you to offer her a pre-inspection in regards to her security deposit. By not picking up the notice, you didn't offer that and keeping any SD is questionable. Have you and the tenant been having problems? The notices from the PO of certified mail usually indicate where it's from. I'd rush to pick up certified mail that might be from a tenant as delaying picking it up won't help me. You're lucky it wasn't a letter stating that she didn't have any heat or hot water.
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