What happens to your stuff if you’re arrested and go to jail?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My former tenant went to jail. I had to pay a lawyer to represent him against me in court for the eviction. On eviction day all his belongings went into the trash.

Would also like to chime in to echo that you freaking suck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My former tenant went to jail. I had to pay a lawyer to represent him against me in court for the eviction. On eviction day all his belongings went into the trash.

Would also like to chime in to echo that you freaking suck.

I think the situation sucks for the tenant ... but what was the landlord supposed to do? Is there a place to store all of those belongings? Was there a family member or friend able to take possession of them? Eviction is not a fast process, if someone outside of jail was able and willing to take possession of the belongings, there was time to do so.

It really, really sucks that a person was put in that position to lose everything they owned (perhaps they committed a crime, perhaps they didn't). But I don't think it should have been the landlord's problem to solve. What support can we give as a society to help people in this situation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My former tenant went to jail. I had to pay a lawyer to represent him against me in court for the eviction. On eviction day all his belongings went into the trash.

Would also like to chime in to echo that you freaking suck.

Yea A BIG F you to you. I gave him a nice place to live at below market value because our family knew him and he royally screwed me over. He tried killing his girlfriend in my house on at least two occasions. He became a meth head, tuned my house into a flop house, stopped paying rent and caused 100k of damages to my house. When I finally regained access to my destroyed house after I paid for his lawyer, I couldn’t get a contractor to even step inside it was so bad. Floor to almost ceiling of trash and animal fences and broken crap. I found documents he had written that said he was planning to beat me up and hit himself and then call the police to say I assaulted him so I’d loose my job, my house and my kids would be homeless because he thought it would be funny. You are god dam right I threw every dam thing he owned out in the trash. Can I give him your address to come Live with you since you don’t suck? F you again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My former tenant went to jail. I had to pay a lawyer to represent him against me in court for the eviction. On eviction day all his belongings went into the trash.

Would also like to chime in to echo that you freaking suck.

Yea A BIG F you to you. I gave him a nice place to live at below market value because our family knew him and he royally screwed me over. He tried killing his girlfriend in my house on at least two occasions. He became a meth head, tuned my house into a flop house, stopped paying rent and caused 100k of damages to my house. When I finally regained access to my destroyed house after I paid for his lawyer, I couldn’t get a contractor to even step inside it was so bad. Floor to almost ceiling of trash and animal fences and broken crap. I found documents he had written that said he was planning to beat me up and hit himself and then call the police to say I assaulted him so I’d loose my job, my house and my kids would be homeless because he thought it would be funny. You are god dam right I threw every dam thing he owned out in the trash. Can I give him your address to come Live with you since you don’t suck? F you again.

Wow. Sounds horrific. Posters here don’t have a clue. In DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, so much disinformation here. You surrender all your stuff on you (often including clothes.. depends on the jail.. since shoes with laces and belts can be used for nefarious purposes). They inventory it, and put it in a box/bag and you sign off on the inventory list.

Before that, they usually let you use your phone to write down any numbers you need, and then you can make calls from the landline phones in jail.

C'mon people, do you really think you get arrested and they just empty your pockets into the dumpster, wallet, phone, keys and all?

They're talking about possessions that aren't on the person when arrested...for example, in their house. C'mon lady - use your brain.

[Anonymous]

To those of you attacking the landlord - you have no idea. My father was a landlord for most of my childhood and some of his properties were in a low income area. The crap he had to deal with with some people (not all) was unbelievable. And, like the first poster said, the landlord has to PAY to have a tenant who is not paying him the rent evicted. It's kind of a messed up system. People trash places, leave pets behind, it can be bad.

I have a family member who went to prison (and so did her husband) a few years ago for a few years, and she lost all of her furniture and her cats. She thinks one of her in-laws came to get the cats, but they don't talk to her so she doesn't know for sure. She has no idea what happened to all of her furniture. She literally had to start from scratch with a bus pass the day she got out of prison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My former tenant went to jail. I had to pay a lawyer to represent him against me in court for the eviction. On eviction day all his belongings went into the trash.

Would also like to chime in to echo that you freaking suck.

Do you want to store it all at your house? If so, please offer that service publicly. Do you want to pay for moving it to storage? Then pay for moving it all there? If so, please speak up!

A landlord can have compassion and still need to take care of their eventual affairs. It's one thing to let a month of rent slide, it's another to allow long term free rent.