Re: Tenant left and forgot to leave keys - Landlord Forum thread 357301

Re: Tenant left and forgot to leave keys by Garry (Iowa) on May 11, 2018 @14:28

So post a 24 hr notice on their door today, that you are going in tomorrow. Then go in with a witness, and take pics of everything------all the rooms, inside closets, kitchen cupboards, refrig, etc. If most of the daily living items are gone, but there are still a few things left, gather all items left, into the living room, and start to clean and repair everything else in your unit. You can still switch the utils, and change locks, but you need to say that on your posted notice, so they won't try to break in. They can call you, and you can come to let them in, if they ever come back. OR, you could wait a week to change locks, to see if they come back. For the time being, you are "storing" their stuff, just in one room of the same unit (at no charge).

It will probably take you at least a week or two, to clean and repair the rest of your place. When you are ready to do the living room, move their "stuff" to another room tempararily, and then get the L room done-----all while "storing" their things at no charge. When you are ready to show the place, THEN, either store their things in another place, offsite, or throw them away, if they haven't came back for them yet. If they come back, and don't like what you did, they can always take you to court. But the chances of that, if they have already moved out of state, are next to zero.

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