Arizona Former-Tenant Abandoned Personal Property Notice

Arizona Notice of Stored Personal Property After Abandonment

Use this notice only after the landlord has lawfully retaken the dwelling under A.R.S. § 33-1370. It does not replace the certified-mail and posting notice used to establish and act on abandonment under § 33-1370(A), (B), and (J).

Arizona Procedure Gate

• Statutory abandonment facts under § 33-1370(J) documented: ☐ Yes
• Initial abandonment notice sent by certified mail and posted for five days: ☐ Yes
• Date landlord retook possession: [__/__/____]
• Fourteen-calendar-day hold ends: [__/__/____]
• Keys were returned with property remaining: ☐ No ☐ Yes — obtain counsel review of § 33-1370(I) before using this notice
• Deceased-tenant, eviction-writ, vehicle-title, animal, hazardous-material, and third-party ownership issues checked separately: ☐ Yes

Notice

Notice date: [__/__/____]

To former tenant: [________________________________]

Last-known address: [________________________________]

Other known address: [________________________________]

Former rental dwelling: [________________________________]

After the landlord retook possession of the dwelling on [__/__/____], the following personal property remained:

[____________________________________________________________]

Inventory, photographs, condition notes, and identifiers are attached or retained as: [________________________________]

Storage and Reclaim Instructions

The property is stored at: [________________________________]

Contact to arrange retrieval: [NAME / PHONE / EMAIL]

Current actual removal and storage charges: $[__________]

The property will be held through at least [__/__/____], which is 14 calendar days after the landlord retook possession. To reclaim the property, contact the landlord in writing and arrange retrieval. Except for the statutory essential items described below, access may be conditioned on payment in full of actual removal and storage costs.

A former tenant may obtain clothing; tools, apparatus, and books of a trade or profession; and identification or financial documents, including documents related to immigration, employment, public assistance, or medical care, without first paying all storage charges.

If you notify the landlord in writing on or before the date of sale or disposal that you intend to remove the property, Arizona law provides five days to reclaim it. Tender of applicable removal and storage costs remains required except for protected essential items.

Intended Disposition

If no timely recovery effort is made, the landlord intends to:

• ☐ Donate the property to a qualifying charitable organization
• ☐ Sell the property and apply proceeds to authorized rent and costs, mailing excess proceeds to the last-known address
• ☐ Dispose of property whose value is reasonably below the cost of moving, storage, and public sale
• ☐ Other counsel-approved disposition: [________________________________]

Perishable items, plants, animals, contaminated property, biohazards, and health or safety risks follow separate rules and are not governed solely by the deadline in this notice.

Delivery Record

• Certified mail, return receipt requested, to last-known address: ☐ Sent [DATE / TRACKING]
• Certified mail to other known address: ☐ Sent ☐ Not applicable [DETAILS]
• Posted on dwelling door or conspicuous place: ☐ Yes [DATE / TIME]
• Copy, inventory, photographs, receipts, and proof retained: ☐ Yes

Landlord/agent: [________________________________]

Signature and date: [________________________________]

Sources and References

• A.R.S. § 33-1370 — Arizona Legislature — https://www.azleg.gov/ars/33/01370.htm