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garage storage tenant stopped paying rent, what to do?
We have a garage in back of a multi. It's been rented for at least a couple of years in an oral agreement with someone who is not our tenant, for storage of his things. He's now almost 3 months behind in the rent, knows it, and is not responding. There is no written lease, everything was done in cash (although there are texts between us and him). I don't know what's in the unit, but I suspect it's household goods.
With no written agreement, what are our options here? I don't want to have to do it, but I'm fed up with chasing him for this small amount of payment, and since he has stopped responding to us, I cannot really negotiate anything with him. Since there is no written agreement, there is no schedule of how we will dispose of his property. Advice?