Check the state Tenant/Landlord laws. Sometimes you need to have the Sheriff escort you to the property to enforce the “Writ” issued by the court. The Sheriff will walk in and declare the items “junk” and then you can put the junk out on the curb for trash pickup. Or, sometimes you will have to get “movers” to pick up and store the “junk” for 30 days and allow the old tenants to claim their “junk”.
Be careful here… make sure you know the laws and follow them to the letter! One slip up and you will:
a) Have to start all over again!
b) Be sued
My first eviction is almost over. I am pretty sure they moved out but there is a lot of stuff left behind. What do I do now? DO I have to get the sheriff out there to open the door? What do I do with all the stuff they left behind?
I’d try the first one, there is a section there about abandoned property and how to deal with it.
You may also want to call some other local landlords, and RE attornies and ask them how long the stuff must be left behind before it is considered abandoned.