Maine Former-Tenant Abandoned Personal Property Notice

Maine Notice of Stored Property and Intent to Dispose

The landlord must store unclaimed property in a safe, dry, secured location. For a tenant who has vacated, send this notice by first-class mail with proof of mailing to the tenant's last-known address.

Maine Deadline Gate

• Judgment entered or tenant vacated: [__/__/____]
• Property placed in safe, dry, secured storage: [__/__/____]
• Notice mailing date: [__/__/____]
• Seven-day claim deadline: [__/__/____]
• Fourteenth day after notice, through which property must remain stored if timely claimed: [__/__/____]

Notice

To former tenant: [________________________________]

Last-known address: [________________________________]

Former rental unit: [________________________________]

The landlord is storing the following property left after you vacated:

Storage location: [________________________________]

Contact for claim and retrieval arrangements: [NAME / PHONE / EMAIL]

You must make an oral or written claim for the property within seven days after this notice is sent, no later than [__/__/____]. If you timely claim and arrange retrieval by the 14th day after this notice was sent, the landlord may not condition release on payment of rent arrears, damages, storage costs, or another amount.

If you timely claim, the landlord will continue storing the property through at least [__/__/____]. If you do not claim within seven days, or you claim but fail to retrieve the property by the 14th day, the landlord may:

• Condition later release on payment of rent arrears, damages, and storage costs;
• Sell property for a reasonable fair-market price, apply proceeds to rent arrears, damages, storage, and sale costs, and forward the remaining balance to the Treasurer of State; or
• Dispose of property having no reasonable fair-market value.

Delivery and Custody Record

• Sent by first-class mail with proof of mailing: ☐ Yes [DATE / PROOF]
• Itemized list included: ☐ Yes
• Inventory, photographs, and storage-location record retained: ☐ Yes
• Tenant response date/method: [________________________________]
• Agreed retrieval date/time: [________________________________]

Landlord/agent: [________________________________]

Signature and date: [________________________________]

Sources and References

• 14 M.R.S. § 6013 — Maine Legislature — https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/14/title14sec6013.html