Storage facilities auction units without properly removing paid tenants from lien lists
A tenant lost all belongings in a storage unit after a facility mistakenly left her name on an internal lien list and sold the unit without ever notifying her beforehand, destroying irreplaceable personal and professional items with no prior warning given.
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