I have a unit up for auction. Sale ends in a few days. Tenant moved stuff in in June and has never made any contact or payment since. All of the sudden yesterday a lady calls says that she is the ex-girlfriend and that is her kids
[email protected]!# in the unit. Says that ex-boyfriend died September 23rd (then says September 21st when I questioned her about it again). I told her I have no record of him diving. As a matter of fact someone signed the tenants name on the certified letter. (note I didn't think to compare signatures yesterday when she called, will check that in the morning) I have done an obituary search and can not find anything about him dying and he does live local. She wants to bring $500 and know if I'll work with her. I told her I could not do that since the unit was not in her name and I have no proof that he died. I told her I needed a death certificate and who was in charge of his estate in order to stop the sale. Am I correct in doing this?
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We require a death certificate and proof of executor-ship if a tenant passed away without designating someone in their lease.
We use a "Full Access" field on our lease, and the tenant can designate someone who we will work with if the tenant is unavailable. The tenant can change the Full Access at any time.
I-43 Storage
This is another reason why I tell people not to store things for someone else, let them get their own unit..