Abandonment

stormee

OK so I have a lady who has moved out and has let me know that she cant get the rest of her things and that we can do what we want with them. I do have this in writing with the date. (abandoning her things).
So my question is what is my process? Can I auction? If so what are the steps in this predicament? If it is an auction can I still do the paperwork on moving her out? Like can I do the move out process through SiteLink? Does that mess up the auction process?
Any advice on what I should do here?

MamaDuke7

As long as she signed that, you can do whatever you want with it now.  The cleanest is to auction it. 

You can still move her out, then sell the unit as a "manager special" or you can just trash what's left if it isn't worth auctioning.

Once moved out, you'll need to mark the unit unrentable until it's empty.

Orkocean

Everything @MamaDuke7 said. If it's a decent unit with some trash, take the trash out and then sale it to get better money brought in. If it's all trash but has anything that a scrapper or resaler could possibly use and you don't want to empty it, take pictures and post on your local FB marketplace/craigslist *free, must take all* and someone will come do the work for you 99% of the time

i43storage

I agree, if you have the signed document, sell away.  However, it never hurts to read your state's statutes.  I have learned some states are waaaay more strict than others.

teamcapitola

Safest bet is to proceed with an auction, even though it likely wont sell for much (or anything). Its more of a cover your *** activity; all involved know its abandoned, however going through the auction process will keep judges happy if she ever comes back demanding "the $10k ring that was left accidentally in the unit!" 

Drew_Scadoo

We just dealt with a situation just like yours and we auctioned the items off with no hold up.