You should still do the abandonment notices to protect yourself.5.

Abandoned the home.

There is a house near mine that is abandoned.

My focus has been taking abandoned properties and renovating to rentals, both short and long term.

Assuming your property is in Utah (like your profile indicates), here's the state law from a basic internet search:In Utah, a tenant who abandons a rental property without notice is liable for the lesser of the following: The rent remaining on the leaseThe rent plus the difference between the fair rental value and the agreed-upon rentThe cost to restore the property to its original conditionThe landlord can also remove the tenant's belongings and sell them if the tenant doesn't claim them within a reasonable time.

Many properties are abandoned by the current owners because of some problemDavid KrulacBigger Pockets Podcast #82

If that's not an option, I would recommend he look into his state and local municipalities' rules on how to handle abandoned vehicles.

Eventually people die off and the homes go up for sale cheap, get abandoned and the park owner picks em up cheap and takes in the extra little bit of cash for the POH rental. 

Now, we are 11 weeks into an 8 week job and he has abandoned the job with 75% of the money and only 50% of the work done. 

On utilities, I bought a foreclosure in NJ and found out it was not attached to Town sewer and I actually had to extend the main line up to my property then put the lateral in and abandon an old cesspool.