Tenant Garage Sales

[Ken D.]

I'm in Minnesota.

Do I have any legal liability for tenants having garage sales on-property? What if someone trips on a recently fallen tree branch, or some other unlikely but possible scenario?

Do I have the legal authority to tell a tenant that they cannot have a garage sale? Does this need to be in my lease agreement or can I do it even without that? Do people think garage sales are a problem or not?

My wife was denied permission to have a garage sale supposedly because of insurance reasons when she lived in a fairly large ~40-50 unit building without much parking or frontage space to ever have a garage sale. All my properties are 2/3/4-unit buildings with decent yard area where it's possible to have a garage sale.