Premature disposal is where landlords get burned.If there’s any doubt about abandonment (for example, tenant claims they’re coming back), then you may need to proceed through formal possession steps.Given you’re in MO, a quick call to a local landlord-tenant attorney to confirm your notice language is worth it.

I think the issue here is that if the entity has been wound down, who is authorized to dispose of any remaining assets?

The water lines & water disposal lines goes out the basement's laundry room through the basement back porch (that is not insulated nor heated), then up to the 1st & 2nd floor to feed the washer/dryer units.The Challenge:Due to Chicago's recent extreme winter conditions, this has caused the water line/water disposal line for the 1st & 2nd floor washer/dryer to freeze annually.

It then becomes an REO (bank owned property) and they will dispose of it months later either again through auction (oftentimes on auction.com) or by listing it with a broker local to the area.

And M2M is the kind of ultimate disposable thing.

The economy: higher interest rates on credit cards, car loans, and consumer loans are eating into disposable incomes.

So you may just end up delaying ordinary deductions and increasing ordinary income with recapture under 1245.This also means you may get tax deductions at a rate lower for deductions when you have less income, and higher rates charged on recapture in the year of disposal.

Low and behold the tenants moved stuff back in and the management company disposed of everything.  

Way short of the avg life of a disposal.  

Tell them you’ll arrange for anything useful left behind to be donated and the rest disposed of and ask them if that’s ok.