What can a landlord do with a tenant’s belongings left behind in Kansas?

In Kansas, a landlord may take and store belongings a tenant leaves after abandoning, surrendering or being evicted, at the tenant’s expense, and sell or dispose of them once 30 days have passed after taking possession, if a newspaper notice is published at least 15 days before the sale and mailed to the tenant within 7 days of publication. The notice must state the tenant’s name, a brief description of the property and the approximate date of the intended sale or disposal, and is published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the unit is located. Until the sale, the tenant may redeem the property by paying the landlord’s reasonable expenses of taking, holding and preparing it for sale and any amount the tenant owes for rent or otherwise. Sale proceeds go first to those expenses and the cost of notice and sale, then to any amount the tenant owes the landlord, and the landlord may keep any balance. A landlord who meets these requirements is not liable to the tenant or anyone claiming an interest, except a secured creditor who gave the landlord notice of its interest before the sale. A landlord may assume the unit is abandoned when the tenant is 10 days in default for nonpayment of rent and has removed a substantial portion of the tenant’s belongings, unless the tenant has notified the landlord otherwise. This is K.S.A. 58-2565.

WhatKansas
Belongings left behindStore 30 days; publish notice 15 days before sale
What the statute requires firstNotice, a waiting period or storage before disposal

What the statute says

“… the landlord may take possession of the property, store it at tenant’s expense and sell or otherwise dispose of the same upon the expiration of 30 days after the landlord takes possession of the property …”

Quoted word for word from the section’s text.

Source

K.S.A. 58-2565

Read the statute in the Kansas Statutes (Kansas Revisor of Statutes): ksrevisor.gov.

Checked against the statute on November 15, 2026.

This is a summary of a published statute, not legal advice. Rules change, local ordinances can add to them, and the terms of a specific lease may differ. Check the citation and speak to a lawyer before acting.

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Seayora keeps a lease’s end date and every notice sent through it, with the date it went out, in the lease record — so the dates a rule like this one counts from are on file rather than remembered.

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