When The Storage Unit Is Sold

A self service storage facility owner has a lien on the personal property stored under the rental agreement. It covers rent, labour, late fees and other charges relating to the property that have become due, along with expenses necessary to preserve the property and expenses reasonably incurred in enforcing the lien or selling the property.

• §ORC 5322.02

Notice goes wider than the occupant. The owner notifies all persons the owner has actual knowledge of who claim an interest in the property, all persons holding liens on any motor vehicle or watercraft among the property, and all persons who have filed security agreements with the secretary of state or the county recorder.

• §ORC 5322.03

• Notice delivered in person, sent by certified mail, or sent by first class mail or private delivery service with a certificate or verification of mailing.
• The notice states the amount owed, including late fees and additional charges.
• It gives a deadline for payment, which may not be less than ten days from the date the notice is delivered.
• A sale takes place at least fifteen days after the first publication.
• For a motor vehicle, trailer or watercraft, thirty days have to elapse after notice to the lienholders before the owner may have it towed.

• §ORC 5322.03

The deadline in the notice is the operative date for somebody trying to keep the contents. It is a minimum of ten days from delivery of the notice, and it is set by the facility inside that floor rather than by the statute, so the date that matters is the one on the notice itself.

• §ORC 5322.03

The publication requirement and where a notice has to be published, what happens to sale proceeds above the amount owed, what a rental agreement may and may not do inside this chapter, the treatment of a vehicle or watercraft after it is towed, and the position where the facility fails to follow the section are not reproduced on this page. An address the facility has on file is what the notices go to, and a changed address that was never given to the facility is a common reason somebody learns about a sale late. Whether a particular sale complied with the section is a question for a licensed Ohio attorney.

• §ORC 5322.02
• §ORC 5322.03