State Specific Question About: NORTH CAROLINA (NC)

hey all...hope everyone is fine...well my issue is i work in a property management office so of course we handle several padlocks/evictions and stuff...now we have had judgement for possession on this one girl, she knew that she would be padlocked and the time came...the 10 days have passed and she calls us screaming at all times that we must let her in...now, this morning i went to her beloved apt and found bags upon bags upon bags of garbage bags full of crap...also a tv and couch and some bicycles...nothing that we can make money off of to cover back rent and court costs...but she starts off all sweet and ends by calling me horrid names(not the first time that has happened, surprised anyone??)anyhow, is that considered harassment or something...she needs to quit or i am going to tell her yeah, she can get her crap...from the dumpster...lol...anyone had anything similiar?? or some wise words???

nice...thanks for the love...

i am 32 years old, and i spend my whole day using caps and i quite honestly did not think i was going to be graded on my question...i usually have a great experience with mr. landlord and have been helped out...as for eviction laws i am familiar and i posted it earlier...i was asking what to do about a harassing tenant...but thanks for the kind words...i appreciate it....

also, i would just like to know when mr. ll ranked on the people asking questions instead of helping them...but such is life...people are mean no matter where you are...

have a great day Wallace...and may you never have to deal with a person such as this girl...only tidings of blessings to you...for i am mature enough to not hold ill will...

thank you Brenda...i am just really glad he is not my landlord...but as i mentioned such is life, angry people are just angry for any reason regardless of caps or punctuation or spelling...

Ignore the harsh comments above.

Joe i must concur with you..i really have thought about it a great deal all day long...but i just work as a leasing consultant, i am not the manager...and she keeps calling and i am the messenger who is going to get killed...well i was going to write lol, but in this case, no lol necessary...

well with all that help, it makes the fugly comment not even appear to me...

:)

i may have to go ahead and let my superiors know that it has to be done and let her get her crap...cos it is not worth the headache that i am going to eventually get over this...

I don't know your laws for tenants left possessions in VA. I do know them for CA. They could be very different.

Until I knew exactly what those laws are I wouldn't make any moves that could foil my property owners rights.

The ca laws are very detailed and exact. I tried to get the tenants to take as much as I could. It worked out ok. It could of been a huge hassle if it had gone differently.

Make her feel that you are doing her a favor. By allowing her to pick up her stuff as a appointed time and date. Once that window is closed that ends your obligation to her. Make her aware of this. Is how I would do it per ca law. Make it clear

she is there to move things. You have to be there the entire time to protect the dwelling. If she mouths off. You have the right not to put up with the abuse. Make her aware of this before hand also.

last week we let her in for 15 minutes and she said it was suffice...

apparently not...

wow this girl is just too much...

Yeah what Brenda said. LOL...

speaking as the person who does all the move out inspections and padlocked apt/houses...i am familiar with dirty nasty horrid filth...i must give her one thing though...the trashbag mountain is flush against the living room wall and besides the couch all the other rooms are empty... so there is always a plus side isnt there???

oh, i forgot to mention the reason she refused to pay was my lack of caps...

:)

sorry i had to throw in a burn somewhere...cos of my immaturity and all...

"oh, i forgot to mention the reason she refused to pay was my lack of caps..."

Pay no attention to wallace from MD, just because she paid some monies and places CPM next to her name she thinks some how that CPM is the same thing as Master, Doctor or even JD which it is not, i bet Wallace never made it out of high school and for an older CPM Wallace acts on this board very immature herself acts like a child in my minds

Things are quite different in my state in Wisconsin. Even if we get possession, if the tenant leaves possessions behind that amount to $100 or so (they will always say the stuff is worth more though), we need to either leave it all in the unit and have a lock in place done for 30 days, giving her that amount of time to claim her stuff, OR we need to pay to have it moved to storage. In order to redeem, she would need to pay for moving and storing it. You cannot hold items for anything other than moving her stuff and storage.

I would let her know by phone, that if you let her in, she needs to TAKE everything that she left, starting with the garbage and then have an officer there to be sure it is taken.

Otherwise you could also just have her take what she wants and charge her to dispose of the rest, but probably would not get anything for hauling out the rest of the junk.

You are lucky in that you can just get rid of the rest. Here you need to move and store it or lock in place for 30 days. In this case, I may have been able to claim under the $100 value, but as stated, tenants always think it is worth more.

Good Luck...By the way, you will find that most landlords on here do try to help when they can.

I tend to agree with Joe and Josh. But I give the former tenant endless opportunities to access the unit. I want the former tenant to get as much of their crap out as possible, so I don't have to.

I had evicted the tenants of a 4 bedroom house. They ignored all of the notices and court papers, and didn't move anything whatsoever until the Constable showed up with a locksmith to kick them out. I was left with a fully furnished (with junk) 4 bedroom house. I was going to have inventory and store everything, hold it for the statutory period, sell it, account for the costs and proceeds, ... I wanted the former tenants to take all of that off of my hands. I gave them access time and again. But the house was so badly totaled by them when they were locked out that I didn't even bother to supervise them -- they couldn't do any more damage! I just went by when they called, to lock the place up. Because of my kindness, I only had to pay fill up and to haul away one large dumpster (does 30 cubic yards sound right?), instead of three loads of that huge dumpster. Saved me a ton of money and hassle.