Storage fee

[RedPhase]

Hello I am in the state of Ohio.

I am poor.
My mom passed away a year ago. I have all her stuff in storage including her ashes.

I am almost 3 months delinquent on payment. What can I do I have no money? I don't want my mom's ashes to be sold at a auction.

 

[quincy]

RedPhase, until you are sued for nonpayment and the contents of the storage unit become available for sale at an auction, there is really not any legal issue that needs addressing.

Before it becomes a legal issue, however, there are some things you can do.

If you have no family or friends to help you become current with the payments on the unit, I suggest you contact charitable organizations in your area to see if they can assist you. If your area of Ohio has a television station or radio station that has a "call for action" team, a call to the station could help you in resolving your problem by putting you in touch with those who can help. In the Detroit area, for example, we have news teams that work with community businesses to help out residents in need, providing them with necessities like wheelchairs and ramps, windows, transportation, food, money.

FreeAdvice has several forum members from Ohio who may be able to provide you with resources, so check back.

Good luck.

 

[swalsh411]

Surely you (or your Mom) had something you can pawn.

 

[OHRoadwarrior]

I suggest you work out a bargain to sell something in the unit for the balance due. Pay the balance and retrieve the items. What do you have in the unit besides moms ashes?

 

[Zigner]

Go to the auction and offer to buy the ashes from the winner of the auction.

 

[Eekamouse]

You don't need to offer to buy the ashes. Contact the storage facility and tell them your mother's ashes are in the unit. When they auction your storage unit, the buyer will give them to the storage facility to return to you.

 

[Zigner]

You don't need to offer to buy the ashes. Contact the storage facility and tell them your mother's ashes are in the unit. When they auction your storage unit, the buyer will give them to the storage facility to return to you.

If the buyer is considerate & compassionate. Of course, the buyer may be neither of those.

 

[xylene]

Don't be so maudlin.

I have no idea why you would have put your mothers remains in a storage locker.

You simply wanted a no hassle way of dealing with her things and and now you've got it.

 

[OHRoadwarrior]

I am waiting for an answer and a general location in OH.

 

[quincy]

I just reviewed RedPhase's posting history. I guess the tutorial sex videos s/he wanted to make in 2011 were not profitable.

https://forum.freeadvice.com/sports-arts-entertainment-law-86/ohio-obscenity-laws-vague-546546.html

 

[OHRoadwarrior]

I just reviewed RedPhase's posting history. I guess the tutorial sex videos s/he wanted to make in 2011 were not profitable.

https://forum.freeadvice.com/sports-arts-entertainment-law-86/ohio-obscenity-laws-vague-546546.html

ROFL, Honest that wasn't why I was sticking my nose in. I was involved on a family battle where a sister wanted to leave my dads remains in the coroners office, because she did not agree with his final wishes.

 

[quincy]

ROFL, Honest that wasn't why I was sticking my nose in. . . .

Ha. While you wanting to know RedPhase's general location does now seem a bit suspicious, my post was really not meant to relate back to yours.

 

[racer72]

Where mom's ashes end up will depend on the state of Ohio's laws as they apply to the sale of the items in the storage unit. In some states such as mine and some others, personal effects such as important papers and documents that have no or little value to the purchaser, usually through the auction company, are made available for return to the owner. An example would be this snippet from an auction company's rules for buyers:

Bidder agrees to return to ABC Rentals & Mini Storage, in an adequate box, any personal papers, pictures, birth certificates, items with a social security number, etc., found among the goods purchased. These personal items will be held at the storage facility for the customer for whom the storage lien was enforced.

And another:

We require the auction winner to bring back all of the personal papers and effects after they have cleaned out the unit.

I have attended some storage unit auctions and I am a fan of the TV shows. This exact issue has been address a couple times on Storage Wars. I would assume mom's ashes would could be described as a personal effect.

 

[Eekamouse]

Bleech! Don't waste your time watching Storage Wars. That show is so friggen' fake. It's completely staged. I know Dan and Laura Dotson. The company I work for used to use American Auctioneers for our auctions. Most of their show is so utterly phony as to be laughable.

 

[HomeGuru]

What about that pawn shop show? Is that fake also?