So, from your description, the unit was supposed to be vacant but you found a lock on it - Correct?
Before you cut the lock, did you prove positive it wasn't a rented unit?
If not a properly legally rented unit then, ok, cut the lock. You found stuff - but did you find anything identifying the owner of the stuff?
If no ID, and you have no idea whose lock or whose stuff is occupying your unit, I would overlock the unit for at least 15 days - maybe 30 days.
I might even send out a email to tenants around that unit to see if anyone just happened to occupy a vacant unit.
After these efforts, and no word from anyone, I'd vacate the unit - donate it or trash it.
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Michael West
Alta Vista Business Park & Self Storage
Keller TX
(817) 431-3550
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-31-2021 02:06 PM
From: David Fisher
Subject: vacant unit that has someone's stuff in it
I was doing a complete walk of our property and found a unit that had a customer lock on it. I cut the lock today and it was full of someone's holiday stuff.
I guess I could just get rid of the stuff, have a manager's sale or ???????
I redlocked the unit.
What would you do?
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David Fisher ASA Sr. Appraiser
GM & Chief Cook
Fisher Global Development, LLC D/B/A Imperial Storage Solutions
Sugar Land TX
(281) 794-2361
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