So last December, my fiance and I moved in with another couple. We were on two separate leases, one for them and one for us. Long story short, they both moved out in June but he didn't officially clear out until July. Since our lease was for a full year, our landlord told them that they both had to pay rent until the end of the lease or find new roommates to take over their lease. Our male roommate defaulted in July on rent, which is why he had to clear out all his things and vacate. Our landlord asked him if he had moved all his stuff out and he told her he had, but when my fiance came home later that day, he found all the guy's furniture sitting in the garage, even though he had handed over his key to the apartment. At first we kinda let it slide because we figured he'd come back and get it soon because it was stuff like his bed and a dresser full of clothing. About a week later, he came over to get his mail from us and didn't mention anything about getting his stuff from the garage. Now it's been a month since he vacated and all his stuff is still here. He's not paying rent, he doesn't live here, and he no longer has a key or lease. Are we allowed to sell the items? We've talked to our landlord and she doesn't really know what to do either. Also, he either changed his phone number or blocked our numbers so we don't really have a way of contacting him and we have no clue where he's living now because he hasn't forwarded his mail.

PING ME!

Honestly, I'd chuck or sell them. You're under no obligation to keep their stuff.

In some places, when the person has been gone for 30 days and doesn't come get their stuff, the owner of the property can sell/do whatever they want with the stuff. Maybe you can check on those laws for your area.

If I were you, I'd call your local city/township hall or police department (on their non-emergency line) and ask them what the laws concerning such things are. That way you're safe - get a printout of the law too so that if the moron comes back and gets pissed, you have something to show him to cover your butt.

Since he is not paying the rent to keep his stuff safe and there is no way to contact him I guess you can throw the stuff away. If he was serious with his things he would have paid rent for the first place or at least moved his things to another location where the rent for storage is cheaper than renting the room. But as other has suggested calling the police and ask their advice about such things is a good way.

i would check with the laws in your state before you sell or throw away anything. you don't wanna end up being taken to court and having to pay the guy back for everything that went missing. i'd also try my best to get in touch with him, on facebook, or by looking up if his number was changed, or something. i mean, what if the guy was kidnapped or killed or something and that's why you're not hearing from him, and you're just out there making profit from his belongings? that's very unlikely, but i always take stuff like that into consideration haha

I would donate his things to Salvation army.

I wouldn't bother trying to contact the dude as you already did and he clearly wants nothing to do with you, but I'd definitely contact the local PD and ask. They might even have a group that takes donations such as these that they partner with, who knows. You don't want the guy to come back and demanding his stuff at some weird time, and if the police are aware then I'd imagine that would help. Just donating it without contacting them wouldn't be a great idea imo.

Time to post it to Craigslist.