I(22M) have been living with my wife (23F) in Minneapolis since I was 18, and before this my older sibling (27M) and I were living with our mother for 2 years. We had each given her $500 per month for our portion of the rent, except my sibling hardly ever did and I ended up paying their portions, just to keep the peace. Years later Im hearing from our mother that he has not been able to hold a job, stays in bed playing video games all day, doesn’t take his daughter to school, etc. just a very lazy person. Without his portions of the rent our mother gets an eviction letter and sibling takes off without a word to stay at the neighbor’s house. Day of the eviction comes and my wife and I came over to help my mother load trucks to get all of her things situated, and as the landlord comes to change the locks, I went inside and grabbed my siblings PC. He has not asked for it and still nobody has heard from him, apart from his FB posts here and there. I feel unsure if I did the right thing, seeing as it was technically abandoned, and whatnot, but I cannot seem to shake the guilt. Plz help
If you didnt take it landlord could taken it or thrown it out and i assume your mother wants nothing to do with it. If he wanted it so bad he could taken it with him.. nta
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I’ll translate . If you didn’t take it your landlord could have taken it and thrown it out, I assume your mother wanted nothing to do with it. If he wanted it so bad, he could have taken it with him, nta
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Ty yes..i was typing on phone sorry..i edited it correct it
Are you having a stroke?
No typing on phone ..op got what i said
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Not really sure why you think you did anything wrong. If he asks for it you can just give it back and if he doesn’t ask just keep it
NTAH, but if he asks for it back you might have to give it to him. I assume there wasn’t any legal contracts about rent payments, but until he requests it back I’d assume it as payment for rent/storage fees of the other things. At that point if he reports it stolen it could be a problem and you’d be forced to give it back.
Not a lawyer and this probably goes into tenet laws, but depending on where you are they are all different. without any written agreement on payment it becomes questionable if he was ever required to make them. At that point you can’t really seize assets for the missed payments. There could be some time period of unclaimed items that it could be sold for storage fees. Even if that is your mom selling it to you to recoup the losses. Aka you would charge her for the moving fees and this would be sold to you for the cost. Depending on state it could be 1 week to 1 year for that to be the case. But probably don’t wipe/use it until after that’s resolved.
Apparently google says it’s 28 days for abandoned property for Minnesota. But that’s Google, do your own research if it comes up.
I just figured there would be no legal repercussions since if I had not grabbed it, it would have just been discarded or sold by the landlord
If he wants it back just give it back. No need to be greedy. It will just cause bad blood later on.
Yta