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If a tenant leaves something at your property, as in an unregistered car, how long do you have to wait before you can have it removed?
And what are your legal obligations for that?
If a tenant leaves something at your property, as in an unregistered car, how long do you have to wait before you can have it removed?
Placed about 5 select phone calls to influential customers of the accountants, who were horrified to learn that some scabby warehouse troll (me) had unfettered access to all of their personal files and was quoting TFN's, annual salaries and birthdates back to them, gently reminding them that their accountant was getting ripped off by paying storage to a crowd who was ripping me off. Gave my mobile # to all of them and said could you assist me please to secure your confidential data.
This happened to us about 4 years ago, when purchasing a warehouse.
Tenant simply buggered off and left the previous Landlord in the lurch for over 6 months. By the time we came along I wasn't interested in playing little lawyer games, as he clearly was too cluey for them, and had been around the block a few times.....and knew all the legal stuff....and knew he had zero obligations to move any of it.
The recalcitrant Tenant was a storage company, and had abandoned numerous bits and pieces, amounting to about 15 tonnes worth of stuff, including a nice Toyota Troop Carrier on big tyres and mud boots worth heaps.
Called the cops for assistance and they said they were powerless to do anything about it, but warned we had no right to touch anything, especially the car.
Called the manager of the Tenant and he said get stuffed.
Called the previous Owner, he said too bad - thankfully it's your problem now.
Squarely in my lap - OK - what to do now ??
Scratching head - could write a legal letter...nahh, been done 12 times already and all of them have been torn up in the previous Landlord's face. This guy doesn't speak that particular language.
Walked over to the mountain of boxes and files stacked on the mezzanine deck that they were storing (and still charging the accountants around the corner for storage....whilst paying me nothing to have them in my shed), ripped a few open and lo and behold there are tens of thousands of tax returns and confidential details of people all over Perth. You bewdy.
Placed about 5 select phone calls to influential customers of the accountants, who were horrified to learn that some scabby warehouse troll (me) had unfettered access to all of their personal files and was quoting TFN's, annual salaries and birthdates back to them, gently reminding them that their accountant was getting ripped off by paying storage to a crowd who was ripping me off. Gave my mobile # to all of them and said could you assist me please to secure your confidential data.
Waited less than 20 minutes before getting the expected irate call from the head duck of the accountancy firm insisting that I stop going through their records. I replied "Sure, no worries at all, as soon as you call up the manager of the Tenant and tell him to come and pick all of his cr@p up outta my shed....until then - no".
Had a cup of tea and waited another 20 minutes. The manager of the Tenant finally wanted to speak to me. Joy.
Gave it 3 more days of argy-bargy, and everything was clear and clean....including the car which was the worst to move. Noice.
Lesson learnt - good people will not stand having their financial data mucked with, and will move heaven and earth to protect it. Just gotta know which buttons to press.
Or if in a residential property picked up the stuff, dumped it, then claimed there was a break in. At the end of the day it's your word against theirs. Tenants lie and don't play by the rules so why should we.
. Just gotta know which buttons to press.
I'd hope that nobody else here would think the same way; surely ethics still have a place in property investment.
And you know that'd be a criminal offence, right?
And only you and I have to have some 'ethics'? Your tenants, who are too busy with their bongs, don't have to have any 'ethics', at all?
Come on, you cannot be that naive.
And only you and I have to have some 'ethics'? Your tenants, who are too busy with their bongs, don't have to have any 'ethics', at all?
Come on, you cannot be that naive.