A resident that hasn’t paid since ... March just got a new TV delivered to the office... can I lien it?

A resident that hasn’t paid since ... March just got a new TV delivered to the office... can I lien it?

What tv?????
That would be my response when they come looking for it!

I haven’t done one in years. But I think it has to be connected or not. Sorry I am no help. ???? All I know is hated doing liens.

Brutal....

We have one too. Five months of no rent and a 52” tv screen delivered to the door ????????

Nope! You’ll be ALL OVER social media if you do it. I know you’re frustrated and people can really be disgusting, but don’t bother.

I sure would take a pic for the attorney and judge

See he was able to save on rent and get a few other essentials. ????

Well we don’t take packages here, LOL, so it would’ve got sent right back! ????????

Maybe they use it for home schooling? ????

I will play dumb for a while, make them suffer. “I don’t think but let me check with the staff because I don’t see it here” ???? “Oh...sorry it is the valuables closet and only - so and so have the key ????????‍♀️- “. Or, “I think it got returned to the shipper, we don’t allowed oversized packages” ????hehehe
After they get so frustrated then you can non-chillante: oh, we found it! ????

I always use these opportunities to ask when I’ll be receiving their grossly overdue rent. They hate it, but they have no choice, but to answer while they’re face to face.

Really? I've never heard of putting a lien on someone's personal property? What state are you in?

They probably have a nice car in the parking lot to.

I am sure you can, check with your Regional, I know we are not doing liens at the moment. It will be interesting to see if they have the audacity to come pick it up.
I have a resident who has not paid rent and just bought a Cadillac

Lien it!! There’s no way on gods green earth that tv would leave my office until their balance was paid.

We don’t do the liens (I’m in Indiana) but my property has Community Spectrum agreement and I GET TO CONTROL, their cable and internet access. So you don’t pay, you don’t get your “essentials” for several to our residents.
BTW this was not my idea, it was the direct order from owner

Hey we are in Texas too how come you haven't done an eviction yet? the courts have been open for quite some time we've already had 10 evictions
PS take pictures of the TV in the address when you take him to eviction Court the judge would love to see them

Heck yeah!!!!!!! Hold it til you get an answer from Legal! Wow what a slap in the face! “Hey I can’t pay rent but will you open the office so I can get my $2000 TV I just bought?!” What do you wanna bet they’ll say it’s a gift? I’d reply “they should have paid your rent for you instead”.
Keep us posted!!!

From a broker friend “I was talking to a developer yesterday. He’s got a brand new high rise in Santa Monica on Wiltshire Blvd. the penthouse rents for $28,000 per month. The resident drives a brand new Ferrari and Hasn’t paid rent in 5 months because he doesn’t have to. He can afford it but they can’t kick him out for not paying rent in LA”

When allowed, they will be held accountable for unpaid rent. What's the purpose of getting petty or assuming anything about a person buying a TV? Did you feel better about calling someone out for assumed poor life choices?
We should be better than this.

????️????️I'm disgusted at some of these comments ‼️ you don't know someone situation...that could've been a gift from someone....I wish my property manager would keep my item or send it back...lawsuit and a beat down ????️ not to mention you can go to Federal prison for tampering with mail...NOT COOL..

If this happened and the building is under no obligation to accept a package, then I would have returned the package back. if the building has a policy to accept packages, then accept it, require them to sign for it, along with a notice of how far back the rent is. and the offical papers that you will be evicting them. You can not publicly shame them, but you can make them aware of the policy.

Am I only only one who read this post as humor? Don't act like we all haven't "thought" something along these lines but would never actually do it! C'mon people, it was probably a joke...and don't come at me with "tampering with someone's mail is not a joke" blah blah blah

That happened to us too! He got the fanciest of TVs and then left the box outside his front door ????‍♀️ Another one that hasn’t paid since March gets packages delivered daily ????

Yes it’s very annoying to see residents making wild purchases during a time where they have stated they can’t pay rent however don’t allow your pettiness to ruin your professional reputation.. like some stated yes this could be a gift from someone or the resident is simply neglecting his rent and would rather watch tv instead.. when the time comes for you to serve that eviction, both him and that tv will be out on the streets and if he purchased it then maybe for him it was a tough life lesson..

Y’all! I’m so sorry if anyone was offended or anything, it was totally a joke - it’s not going to be liened, what he does with his $$$ is his business, that’s why we will be filing for eviction in accordance to the lease when permitted to do so. I had no intent to do it; however was curious and asked the RM if one could under normal circumstances. She didn’t know either and so she asked legal. Would I really Lien their correspondence- no.

Don't give the "cancel rent" group anything more to use.
I would approach assuming that they lost their job due to the pandemic and was trying to get a job working from home and needed the TV as 2nd monitor.

In this case, if I were in your shoes, I would have either the owner or regional manager hand deliver the TV to them and use as a way to see if they are still being affected by the pandemic and to see if they had a job lined up yet. I would then get them to let you know of their intentions in writing. Based on the answer, I would just have photos in case there is no option other than eviction.

What if it was a gift to him/her?