Tenants car left behind...PA

[Bryan Whittington]

We had a tenant move out and he left his car parked in our parking lot...are we able to have this towed?  

[Patricia Steiner]

From Nolo: "Motor vehicles. Occasionally, a departing tenant will leave an inoperable or “junker” automobile in the parking lot or garage. Motor vehicles are often a special category of personal property to which state rules on abandoned property don’t apply. If the tenant has left a car or other vehicle behind, call the local police, giving the vehicle’s license plate number, make, and model, and indicate where it’s parked. The police will probably arrange to have it towed after determining that it is abandoned."

In your state, it appears you have to send notice to the tenant's last known address giving him 10 days to pick-up his property. If he responds, you have to hold onto it for another 30 days. 

(https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/handling-tenants-abandoned-property-pennsylvania.html).

I knew an owner who had the car towed to a mall and left - to get rid of it. A few days later, he receives a notice telling him he is being fined $100 a day for storage (the parking lot cameras recorded the towing company who then ratted him out).  What was a pain became an even bigger one.