Hawaii Former-Tenant Abandoned Personal Property Notice

Hawaii Notice of Intent to Sell or Donate Abandoned Personal Property

Use for personal property the landlord in good faith determines has value after the tenant has wrongfully quit, quit pursuant to notice, or quit at natural expiration of the term. HRS § 521-56 permits commercially reasonable sale, storage at tenant expense, or donation after reasonable notice efforts.

Route Gate

• Tenant quit date: [__/__/____]
• Covered quit route documented: ☐ Wrongful quit ☐ Notice to quit ☐ Natural expiration
• Property has value in landlord's good-faith determination: ☐ Yes
• Forwarding or notice address checked: ☐ Yes
• Mailing date: [__/__/____]
• Earliest sale or donation date, at least 15 days after mailing: [__/__/____]

Notice

To former tenant: [________________________________]

Mailing address: [FORWARDING / DESIGNATED / PREVIOUS KNOWN ADDRESS]

Former premises: [________________________________]

The following personal property remains in or around the former premises:

[____________________________________________________________]

The property is stored at: [________________________________]

To claim it, contact [NAME / PHONE / EMAIL] and arrange retrieval no later than [__/__/____]. Storage is at the tenant's expense, subject to applicable law and a documented reasonable charge of $[__________].

If the property is not timely claimed, the landlord intends to:

• ☐ Sell it in a commercially reasonable manner after advertising the sale in a daily newspaper of general circulation within this circuit for at least three consecutive days
• ☐ Donate it to the following charitable organization: [________________________________]

No sale or donation will occur before 15 days after this notice is mailed. If sold, proceeds remaining after accrued rent and storage, sale, and advertising costs will be held in trust for the tenant for 30 days after sale; unclaimed proceeds are then forfeited to the landlord under HRS § 521-56(b).

Property left unsold after compliance, or property the landlord determines has no value, may be disposed of under § 521-56(c). This notice does not waive any ownership claim or authorize disposal of property governed by another law.

Record

• Inventory and photographs retained: ☐ Yes
• Valuation basis retained: ☐ Yes
• Notice mailed to forwarding address: ☐ Yes ☐ Unavailable
• Notice mailed to tenant-designated address: ☐ Yes ☐ Unavailable
• If neither available, mailed to previous known address: ☐ Yes
• Proof of mailing retained: ☐ Yes

Landlord/agent: [________________________________]

Signature and date: [________________________________]

Sources and References

• HRS § 521-56 — Hawaii State Legislature — https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol12_Ch0501-0588/HRS0521/HRS_0521-0056.htm