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I was in the process of evicting a tenant whose rent was a month and a half late for September and never paid for October. On October 20th she informed me that she would be moving out on October 26th. On the 26th I went over to the property (she has no phone) to give her a written acknowledgement of her intent to move and an itemized copy of the rent she still owed. On the morning of the 27th, I went to the house to clean the room she was living in (there are two other college kids living there) and she was still sleeping in the room! I told her that she informed me she'd be out and that I expected her out and the rent paid by 5pm. I went back at 5 and she had packed up her things, but they were still there. At 8pm she finally arrived and I told her to collect her things, return the keys, and if there were things she could not take then, to call me and I'd let her in to get them, but she was not to return to the property unless I was there. She never called me again, but I found out through people we both know that she has been spending tons of money (she still hasn't paid the $420 she owes me) and that she has moved to Kansas. She left a computer and a couple of boxes of her things. Can I keep her abandoned computer? Also she broke into the house the weekend after I collected her keys and stayed there! I called the police and they told me they had to catch her there to arrest her and that I should keep her computer for the rent she owes. Can I do this and what should I do with the rest of her stuff?
I was in the process of evicting a tenant whose rent was a month and a half late for September and never paid for October. On October 20th she informed me that she would be moving out on October 26th. On the 26th I went over to the property (she has no phone) to give her a written acknowledgement of her intent to move and an itemized copy of the rent she still owed. On the morning of the 27th, I went to the house to clean the room she was living in (there are two other college kids living there) and she was still sleeping in the room! I told her that she informed me she'd be out and that I expected her out and the rent paid by 5pm. I went back at 5 and she had packed up her things, but they were still there. At 8pm she finally arrived and I told her to collect her things, return the keys, and if there were things she could not take then, to call me and I'd let her in to get them, but she was not to return to the property unless I was there. She never called me again, but I found out through people we both know that she has been spending tons of money (she still hasn't paid the $420 she owes me) and that she has moved to Kansas. She left a computer and a couple of boxes of her things. Can I keep her abandoned computer? Also she broke into the house the weekend after I collected her keys and stayed there! I called the police and they told me they had to catch her there to arrest her and that I should keep her computer for the rent she owes. Can I do this and what should I do with the rest of her stuff?
