ex-roommate left everything INCLUDING PETS! need help in Alabama!

[andieee]

About six months ago agreed to let a good friend of mine for more than 10 years share my home with me (I own my house).. doing each other a favor.. and her parents paid me the rent. There was no written lease, as we have known each other and each others' families all of our lives.
Over a moth ago (around the 1st of April to be exact) I asked her to move out because of our lifestyle differences.. I later found a crack pipe, along with many differnet perscription medications in my house.. things got nasty..
It's been this long and she has made no attempt to remove her things from my house, a couch, a chair, bed, clothes, TV, big furniture, and TWO cats.
To my knowledge she has been staying with her parents..
I was wondering if there is anything I could do to provoke her to remove her things from my property. All forms of communication have been ceased between us, and she knows she needs to get her things (and her animals). I have not changed the locks, and I have allowed her ample time and opportunities to pack and move her things out. Her father is a lawyer too.. I would love to have everything out and just be able to move on with my life. I just don't have the heart to throw everything out.. I do not want to spend the money on a storeage unit.. I do however want money for keeping her things for this long as well as boarding her two cats.

Thank you!

 

[seniorjudge]

...I was wondering if there is anything I could do to provoke her to remove her things from my property....

I doubt it.

But stand by for other opinions.

 

[calalily]

Have you tried to contact her parents and ask for their help in removing her things? You could send her a certified letter stating that she has thirty days from the receipt of this notice to remove all of her items and animals from the premises and state what you will do after that time I (I don't recommend you throw it away). Start counting thirty days from the time you get the certification back just to be sure. You could get a moving compnay to pack her things and deliver it to her parents house. Make an inventory of all items with pictures even the smallest items. Forget asking for money for "storage". Did you give her thirty days notice to move in writing? You are considered a landlord in this case and have to follow the laws governing landlord and tenets. http://ali.state.al.us/legislation/landlord_tenant.pdf

 

[andieee]

Thanks, I didn't know if I had the legal right to send any kind of notice like that since there was no lease involved - I have asked her to come get her things in previos e-mails, I have not spoke her parents - they know as well as anyone that she needs to get her things, I believe it has a lot to do with her being selfish and not getting her things despite me..

 

[calalily]

I would try the parents first though before I send a letter. Appeal to them and maybe they'll get her things for her and you'll be done with it. If you have to send the letter, In the letter state something about your verbal request about her moving out and as of April (and the date and year), and it has been so many days (state days) since she moved that you are giving her notice of 30 days as of receipt of the letter to retrieve her property and cats or will dispose of them (and name how you will dispose of them). But I do urge you to contact the parents! Nothing you do will keep them from sueing you if they want to; so, keep all your documentation of the letters and emails and everything you have done to return her property. Maybe even send a copy of the letter to her parents saying you have emailed the daughter and have not gotten a response.