Did my tenant just leave? What can I do.

[Chase Spitzer]

I served a tenant a 5 day notice after them barely catching up to be able to stay last month.

Their are two people on the lease, one left town and notified me he had no intenstions of coming back to town or paying rent. The remaining tenant has no water on. Soon no power once the weather stabilizes and she lost her job.

It has been 8 days since giving her the 5 day notice. She will not answer any calls, we have been to the house four times and never seen her. It appears there are still many items in the home, yet we truly can not tell if she has been home.

We think she may have just left and left most of her furniture as the items are really not much to speak of as far as quality or value.

Do we go to court to evict someone that is not there? Do we post notice? It seems to be an odd situation if she did just leave the items.

This is in Macon county Illinois.

Thanks,

Chase

[John Adamkewitz]

I saw an old James Bond movie, where Bond stuck a small piece of a match book in the door jam, to see if anyone opened the door after He had returned. (Que Mission Impossible music.)

I have used this method in the past with great success.

Pretty hard to live with no water, and that alone should be enough to allow an emergency inspection, and the camera would'nt be a bad idea either.

John