Possible Abandoned Rental Property

[Spencer Gysi]

Hi all,

Hopefully you can provide a bit of insight on what i should do in this situation. The situation is that tenants are a month behind on rent, their phones are off so no contacting that way, child services stepped in and after that happened the parents left the property and apparently are staying somewhere but I do not know where they are, it has been 2 weeks since they have up and left the property but all their stuff is still there, and the oil tank is empty.

In talking with child services I found out that somehow there is a potential way to contact them through a tablet that is not theirs at the location they are staying. Fairly sketchy since I can try to relay a message but no guarantee.

My thoughts were

1. to get a bit of oil in the tank to make sure pipes dont freeze and burst

2. Lease end in march so I could go through the process to evict them or I could try mutual termination or cash for keys, the issue is that I dont know how I would get any written communication reliably to them or talk to them myself.

I might contact a lawyer soon just to make sure I am doing everything correctly but wanted to check in here first to see if anyone has any ideas or thinks I should proceed a certain way. Thanks.