The owner could be in a hospital, or incarcerated or on a trip, caring for a sick relative in a different state or in the military on assignment or any number of things. 

You don't know if they are alive or dead, have mental capacity or not, incarcerated, drug/alcohol problems or severe mental and emotional problems.

Incarceration.

One suicide, one fell and hit her head on a case of canned cat food and bled to death, and one died of natural causes.Your application and/or lease agreement should have contact information of someone authorized to remove their belongings in the case of death or incarceration (this has happened).

During the years she's been a tenant he's never been in the picture of course,  because I yesterday I found out that he was recently released from incarceration.  

Its a foreclosure, old owners are incarcerated. 

That means probably getting two doctors who agree that the person is incapacitated and getting that for someone who is incarcerated is very difficult I'm sure.

It's their fault, and the power lies with them to reverse their poor past choices and pick themselves up a bit by their own bootstraps.You're going to tell these new tenants that what's primarily wrong with them is not a legacy of a crime against humanity in the form of three hundred years of black slavery, followed by an unfunded emancipation that turned a huge number of Americans into desperate economic refugees based on the color of their skin, followed by a legacy of organized race hatred, bigotry, pseudoscientific and religious condemnation, and of course overwhelming and widespread intimidation and coercion, followed by a series of failed half-hearted half-measures coupled with an absolute refusal to consider slave reparations and the most lopsided minority levels of poverty and incarceration in the developed world.You're going to explain to these black folks that all that is of secondary importance, and what's REALLY important now is that they get better managing their money so they can hand it over to you more efficiently and you won't have to work so hard to get it.

All 3 were eventually incarcerated. 

He abandoned it and is now incarcerated.