My experience based on thousands of auctions over the years .
We generally ask anyone finding personal items of the nature mentioned ( also included would be ashes in urns) found in a unit that goes to auction to drop them off at the office so the owner can retrieve them. Just a little curtesy for the tenant. But it is not required by law. When the gavel falls they are buying 100% of the contents .
All that being said we hold these personal items for maybe 90 days . I don’t think even 1 in 50 tenants comes to retrieve the items .
Let’s face it. If what is stored had so much value to the tenant they would have paid the bill. And who stores a birth certificate in a storage unit? I have heard that a 1000 times and have not seen one yet.
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Douglas W. Hunt
214-236-7474
Original Message:
Sent: 7/1/2022 2:29:00 PM
From: Donald Frazier
Subject: RIghts of Tenant on Abandonment
Hello,
I'm looking for insight on what rights a tenant has when a notice of abandonment has been issued. The tenant is 2 months past due. Notice of claim was issued. She's been in contact with us but has only provided excuse after excuse for payment, and I'm tired of waiting and losing more money. She herself explained that the items inside her unit are of no value to anyone else, so we issued a notice of abandonment in leiu of losing more money on a foreclosure. She said we are legaly required to give her things like social security cards and tax returns that are inside the unit. Anyone know the validity of that? I' ve never heard of that, and my understanding is that nonpayment forfeits any rights to the unit's contents.
Thanks in advance!!
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Hannah Ribera
LD Storage, LLC
Denton TX
(940) 326-4428
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