Well, My one tenant moved out about 35 days ago, abandoning the unit. Which leaves one other tenant, in another unit, before I can sell, as it is specified no tenants.

Within the last few days I have found out that the moved out tenant has a 5th wheel parked on a piece of property.

I still have some of her things stored, which is required for 30 days. I have a twin mattress and a box spring, and some smaller stuff. The mattress is urine soaked.

Instead of paying the dump fee, I want to deliver her things, taking them to the property that is listed as hers.

My husband said to just pay the $80.00 fee to get rid of them and my daughter agrees. Not my son, as he thinks as I do.

You plan to do this while you are selling the property? You never know what that x-tenant will do. Not worth it. Pay the $80 hauling fee...

On time I evicted three families sharing a 5 bedroom home with a convertible den, making it 6 bedrooms. When they were locked out by the sheriff, the tenants said, "If I throw any of their stuff out, since it's all valuable, they would see the pants off of me"!

I got the sheriff to put on my copy that the evicted tenants wanted everything left in the house.

So after holding the stuff the mandatory 21 days, I rented a giant earth moving dump truck and got 6 people to load it up on the truck. I got boxes and had them box everything spread all over the floors.

Since I followed them to their new rental, I called their new landlord and asked permission to drop off some of the tenants belongings -- that the tenants thought were of some value. The owner gave me permission and I had him texted the permission to me.

At 2 AM, when my x-tenants were drunk over the weekend, I backed the dump truck on to the driveway and dumped it as I drove away -- dump controls were in the cab.

Robert J. I loved reading your story. I believe they received what they deserved. Sounds like you had a blast.

To clarify my story. the tenant who rented was a young woman with a 3 year old still in diapers. I had previously inspected the property and then contacted her Mother, who actually moved her things, as the tenant blocked me. When inspected, the bed was not there. Her step Dad, I think, brought the urine soaked bed to the rental just to get rid of it and to save them dump fees. This is the reason it "sticks in my craw", as the saying goes. It was totally intentional, on their part, leaving it there.

PB,

Deliver it. It is her personal property and you must have written permission to dispose of it.

Neatly. Put a tarp over it and take a photo to prove you did not mishandle it.

Feels good.

But $80 sounds high. Can the city take the small stuff and just haul the mattress? Watch out for bedbugs!

I hope you added that in the cleaning/repair charges against her deposit.

We charge

$50 to load

$50 to haul

$50 dump fee

Is this 5th wheel on your property or elsewhere?