tmm99
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My neighbor got evicted last week from her apartment she had lived in for over 10 years. She was ill for a while - diabetes and lupus - had a small stroke maybe a year ago or so which disabled her for a few months. Right after that, she got terminated from her employer (very small company).
She said she had applied for SS disability, but I guess it was taking too long. She is a single mother with a child in middle school. She finally got money borrowed from her sibling and contacted her landlord, but her landlord said it was too late. She came by to ask me to store some boxes in my backyard until she got her car fixed and sold before she moves to Hawaii to live with her sibling (who is helping her financially so she and her child can finish stuff here and move).
There is an eviction notice on her front door now, and "No Tresspassing" sign inside, visible through the front window.
The thing is... she is a hoarder. I've never been inside her place, but from the front door, I could see the mountains of "stuff" piled on both sides with a narrow walking trail in the middle. I'm pretty sure this continues to the rest of the house.
I know she cannot get back in there anymore and I don't think she has any intentions to (she already boxed things she is going to ship out and taken out of the property by the required date), but now what is the landlord going to do with all that "stuff"? From the notice I see on the window, it looks like the landlord has to hold it for a while? Is that the case or once the tenant says she doesn't need it anymore, he can just throw it all away? I imagine it would cost the landlord tons of money to even just throw all the stuff away. It would cost even more if he had to store them somewhere.
Since there are a lot of discussions on this forum about buying/maintaining rentals, I was curious if any of you had encountered something like this and what you ended up doing.
She said she had applied for SS disability, but I guess it was taking too long. She is a single mother with a child in middle school. She finally got money borrowed from her sibling and contacted her landlord, but her landlord said it was too late. She came by to ask me to store some boxes in my backyard until she got her car fixed and sold before she moves to Hawaii to live with her sibling (who is helping her financially so she and her child can finish stuff here and move).
There is an eviction notice on her front door now, and "No Tresspassing" sign inside, visible through the front window.
The thing is... she is a hoarder. I've never been inside her place, but from the front door, I could see the mountains of "stuff" piled on both sides with a narrow walking trail in the middle. I'm pretty sure this continues to the rest of the house.
I know she cannot get back in there anymore and I don't think she has any intentions to (she already boxed things she is going to ship out and taken out of the property by the required date), but now what is the landlord going to do with all that "stuff"? From the notice I see on the window, it looks like the landlord has to hold it for a while? Is that the case or once the tenant says she doesn't need it anymore, he can just throw it all away? I imagine it would cost the landlord tons of money to even just throw all the stuff away. It would cost even more if he had to store them somewhere.
Since there are a lot of discussions on this forum about buying/maintaining rentals, I was curious if any of you had encountered something like this and what you ended up doing.