Landlord sold all of my possesions. statute of limitations?

[BEHAVE]

CALIFORNIA-
My landlord evicted me from my Art Studio/Retail Gallery.
Because of many factors, He ended up keeping every possesion
of mine and of the people that had their articles on consignment. He decided to sell my possesions at auction to recover the cost of the eviction legal fee's.
He would not tell me when the auction was until the day before. He also would not tell me where the auction was held nor would he tell me the name of the auctioneer.
He refused to provide me with an inventory list.
He ended up selling three hundred thousand dollars worth
of my possesions for six hundred dollars.

#1- what is the statute of limitations for me to sue?

#2- How do i prove what my possesions were if he disposed of my records?

#3-Since i used the space to store ALL of my personal items What items was my landlord forbidden to dispose of?
I.E.-birth certificate/I.D./social security card,all records
personal records,business records,eyeglasses,clothing,meds,
tools,merchandise on consignment from others, etc...

 

[LL]

Oh My.

The time to be in the question-asking mode is, of course past. If the sale was legal, I don't know what else you can do?

Some thoughts (I don't want to offend you, but I call them the way I see them):

1. I suppose that it doesn't do you any good to ask, why did you let yourself be evicted, instead of settling any dispute you had with your landlord and paying anything you might have owed him?

2. I suppose that it also doesn't do you any good to ask, why did you leave your stuff there, instead of taking it, or redeeming it and taking it.

3. You had notice that the property was going to be sold

4. Landlord is not obligated to tell you date & place of sale. Everyone had notice to participate by way of publication.

5. Even having failed to remove your property, or to redeem it by paying the costs of storage, you could have bid yourself on the property and for $600 you could have gotten all $300,000 worth of stuff.

I don't know what to tell you, except to check if the landlord did the sale properly. If he did, then he followed the proceedure required by law for disposing of property left behind by an evicted tenant who fails to remove or redeem and remove his possessions.