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Tenant Lost in Court, have their stuff 30 days later
I had an eviction wherein the Judge refused the tenant right of possession to the property or their belongings. (Long story short, they had only been there 6 weeks, bounced $20K worth of checks written off of closed accts, never paid one dime of real money towards rent, sold my appliances, criminal activity in the house, etc etc etc.)
It is now over 30 days later since the Judge's decision. The evictees have not paid any money towards the rent they owe, the appliances they stole, the personal items they sold, etc. I have ALL and I mean ALL their possessions.
Since they have not gone to civil court to sue for the items, and since the Judge denied them access to their possession and since it has been over 30 days since the Court's decision, is it safe to sell anything of theirs in order to try to recoup some of what they owe me?
Or, do I need to send them a notice that I am going to sell it and give them 30 more days to cough up the money or sue in civil court (which they won't do because of all of the criminal charges against them) or can I just sell the stuff?
Techincally, they have abandoned it. I don't even know where they are at this point, they don't answer their cell phones or emails.
Thanks for your input.
Last edited by titlegeek; 12-18-2009 at 09:41 PM.
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