Tenant leaving personal items on common area.

[Tuan Tran]

I have a small 8 unit apartment with a common area between the two four-unit buildings.  One of my tenants is illegally parking a motorcycle in the common area and leaving bikes in another part of the area.  Can I legally remove these items before serving them with a three day notice?  Or do I have to serve the three day notice and evict them before I can touch the personal items.  At the moment, I deem them as hazardous to my other tenants, especially the motorcycle.

This is in California.

Thanks

[Chris Szepessy]

When I did PM. we'd have tenants put their bicycles, strollers, etc. in the hallways. We'd send them a letter telling them that it wasn't allowed and give them a week to remove them. If they didn't, we moved them ourselves...to the dump.