The Tenant Move Out At the End of the Lease & Abandoned A Vehicle At Rental Property
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got a new rental property uh thing that happened today i wanted to share uh with you guys and actually wouldn’t mind getting some thoughts from anyone who’s smarter than me so took over the management of a property kind of a nice property um in a neighborhood called hawthorne here in philadelphia uh from another property management company and picked up the keys from the other property management company everything kind of went kind of well until i got to the property and i found it just in shambles just really completely just destroyed and just felt everywhere the tents had never cleaned um i don’t know how apparently i think the owner actually screened and placed the tenants and i don’t think she got a security deposit either so i don’t know if we can blame the it doesn’t sound like we can blame the other property management company at all i’m not really sure what happened between the relationship um with that company but the tenants left a considerable mess and considerable personal belongings and this is where it’s kind of new for me is they actually left a like a newer looking triumph motorcycle uh parked in the driveway at first i was kind of hoping maybe it’s just a neighbor’s motorcycle but you know looked around and found some keys to uh to a triumph inside the unit uh so it’s obviously the tenants the tents have been gone for a couple months uh so i don’t know what happened i don’t know why the property hasn’t been cleaned uh that certainly would be a thing with the property management company uh you know i just have no idea so the question is what do you do when a tenant abandons a vehicle and you know i don’t actually know that i have the answer for this uh but i believe that it’s completely legal for us to go ahead and call a tow tuck company because it is the landlord’s property the tenant is no longer the user of the property uh and i think it’s perfectly acceptable to call tow truck company uh have them come pick up the motorcycle and take it to their impound lot so certainly give the tenant plenty of notice which can be kind of difficult because the one thing the property management company didn’t provide is the exiting tenant’s lease so we don’t really have any contact information we’re still working to get that uh what i think i’m going to do is merely take this motorcycle and walk it to the curb which i believe is also legal but anyone can chime in at any time you know my podcast is me telling you how i would handle it and it’s not always uh not always accurate not always the way that maybe uh everybody should follow the way i’m gonna handle it is i’m gonna take their motorcycle and i’m going to walk it to the curb and put it on the street and uh if i can inform the tenant then i’m going to be doing this and give them plenty of notice because the motorcycle’s not really causing a major problem right now especially considering we have to get in and get the whole places gutted um but uh you know we’ll give them notice if we can if we can track them down let them know hey this is going to happen on such and such a date so if you want your motorcycle get it beforehand otherwise you can find it in the street and we’ll just park it in a legal spot uh you know in the street and uh hopefully they’ll be able to get their motorcycle back but otherwise if you’re in the burbs somewhere like that i do believe there’s no problems no illegalities with you uh calling a tow truck company uh having it towed uh if the tenants eventually circle back and say hey where’s my vehicle uh you can uh let them know where the you know where the tow truck company is they’ll definitely give them plenty of notice and they’ll definitely make sure that they are legally exited of the property all right good luck anybody have any suggestions i would actually love to hear
