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The rules for having your tenant's (or former tenant's) vehicle towed away will be different in each state and city. In general, if the tenant is gone and is no longer your renter, their vehicle does not belong on your property. You can have it towed away immediately. In some places you can even make a deal with the towing company that gets you a small finders fee when they tow the car. If the person is your current tenant, good luck. It will be very difficult to get the vehicle towed unless it is violating a safety law or is clearly in violation of the lease. Check your local ordinances for property owner's rights and abandoned vehicles.
Hopefully you kept any paperwork the former tenant left behind. In the event you did not, hopefully you had them fill out a basic tenant application that would include his SSN, and any other identifying information you could gather. In the event you didn't, you can still enlist the aid of a competant skiptracer to locate the former tenant. The more information you give to the skiptracer the mroe likekly it is he can locate your former tenant. However, the fact that your tenant went bad on his obligation to you is an indication you are at the back of a long line of creditors. You may not be able to recover the debt.
After giving a commercial tenant a 3-day notice to pay rent or quit, what steps do I have to take to get the sheriff to put the tenant out?
A landlord would have the right to have all vehicles and vessels towed at the owner's expense. The tenant can then retrieve the vehicles/vessels by paying the fees to the towing company.
Usually you must send a notice to the tenant at his LAST KNOWN ADDRESS. If he abandoned the property he probably hasn't given his new address. So you send the notice to his old address and the notice will either be forwarded to his new address or it will be returned to you.
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In most states this is prohibited in a residential landlord/tenant rule.
read your lease agreement
"It depends". If the tenant just locked the doors and left at the end of a lease, gave you the keys, and said nothing about the items, the facts say the tenant intentionally abandoned the items and you can do with them what you want unless your state law says otherwise. If the tenant said anything, that's different. If the lease is not over and the tenant is expected back, that may also be different. You state may have specific laws about abandoned property too.
I usually keep it for 3 months and place an advertisement in the local paper [keep copy for legal reasons] Then after 3 months sell it to refray expenses. Include this as a clause in any future lease agreements.
If a tenant abandons a property without notice he is in violation of the lease, and the landlord can sue and/or keep the security deposit. The tenant may also be responsible for the rent of the unit during any time the unit is unoccupied during the remainder of the time of the lease.
Generally, no. The landlord would have to first acquire a legal interest in the office contents, either by a signed security agreement with the tenant or by filing a lien and following up with a court order of liquidation. Of course, a tenant can certainly offer to give the landlord a commercial security interest in the office contents, or the tenant's inventory or equipment, if the tenant chooses.