What Would Happen If A Tenant Leaves Articles Behind After The Contract Ends?
This happens on a number of occasions but as a landlord, you need to be very careful.
Firstly the tenants may have just left the property for a reason and are going to return. My advice would be to take the tenant’s belongings and store them. Then advise the tenants that the belongings have been stored and give them a time scale to collect them.
If there is a dispute over who is the owner of the goods then make sure that you don’t dispose of any of the items until this dispute has been resolved.
All landlords must give tenants 21 days as a legal obligation of any intention to dispose of their belongings. A landlord must also retain the belongings for a period of 3 months before they can dispose of them.