I am a live-in care provider, recipient got evicted, how can I get my things? Landlord won't allow me access to my belongings?

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Suckersam: Provide proof of residency to the local police station. Something seems amiss with the elder (or not per your profile-age 50?) being arrested and jailed.

Even if you werent on the lease the landlord is cruel and uncompassionate. He knows the elderly lady needs 24/7 care and he throws everything. This landlord sounds greedy and a monster. Id get the police on it too and know your rights. In the world of business and money theres no room for kindness and compassion. Sorry this happener. One day the landlord will get old and frail someday and he will see.

Go with a police escort to get your things. You will have to show proof that you were living there - some type of contract - phone bill, pay stubs, something showing it was your address. Landlords do illegal things all the time. They padlock the house, they use temporary ex parte false restraining orders to evict people instead of landlord/tenant court, etc. (tenants do illegal things all the time as well).

Eviction doesn't happen overnight - there are numerous warnings before that happens. So there are a lot of missing pieces to your story - but, in my opinion, you were there living with this elderly lady and both of you chose to violate those warnings and must live with the consequences.

Small claims court? The police will honor a judge's order.

I read others' replies and I gotta admit, this sounds like there's a whole lot more to the story. I knew a caregiver who thought she was great and was also not allowed by family to go anywhere near the house she had lived in, provided 24/7 care for an elderly man, also for years. She was sweet and fun, but could be a horrible caregiver. Not saying you are, but if you only heard her side of the story everyone would have been sympathizing w/her.

I suggest that you go to the city police or sheriff's station (of the house) and explain the situation. Give them the landlord's number to contact and set up a date/time, with the landlord present, to have an officer personally escort you to remove only your things and then leave immediately. Otherwise you're probably out of luck. Is there a restraining order on you? If so, bring that to the police station also. Good luck.

Ok, I'll ask the question that needs to be asked. How does someone that needs 24/7 live-in care end up in jail? And is the jail providing 24/7 care?

Burnt brings up some good points. The main one being, if the landlord even knew u were living there. If you weren't on the lease or he made aware that she had a live-in caregiver, then he has no reason to let u in. Your a stranger to him. And what did this little pld lady do that put her in Jail, short of killing someone.

The homecare agency who employs you is supposed to make sure you can secure your things and remove them from the house. Since you claim to have bought the furnishings (which legitimate caregivers hired caregivers do not do), I'm going to assume that you were not hired by a caregiver agency.

Is your name on the lease of the cottage? How do you get paid by the "little old lady" which I find hard to believe.
Little old ladies who need caregivers don't end up in jail.

The more likely situation you have going on here is you made a deal with her to move in on the DL against the landlord's knowledge. Either the little old lady expected you to pay her to live there or you were going to work in exchange for living there.

Either way, unless the landlord knew about you or your name is on the lease, you have no legal rights to anything in the cottage.

Maybe try to find out the reason why the landlord is trying to get you arrested every time you go near the place. Maybe call him and ask.
If the cottage is locked up for lack of payment on the rent or because the little old lady had you living there on the DL, he can have you arrested for trespassing.

Try calling the landlord and talking to him reasonably because there's not a whole lot you can do.
Good luck and I hope you get your stuff back.

Call your housing authority.

Take your proof of residency to the police station to find out what next steps. I doubt, with the resident of the home no longer there, that anyone will let you remove anything but your own identification, bank books, things with your name, perhaps your clothing, unless you have legal proof of what items belong to you. But I think the police are your only hope unless there is somewhere a caseworker involved. So sorry. What a mess.