Legal Question in Business Law in California

William,

No one can really offer anything here without first reviewing the contract and understanding all the facts and circumstances involved. I suggest you discuss it with a lawyer in private if this is of great concern.

If you would like to discuss further over a free phone consult, feel free to contact me anytime that is convenient.

Kind regards,

Frank

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An auto-renew provision is (usually at least) a fall-back provision that renews the contract if and only if neither party has taken any affirmative action to modify or terminate. If you want to end the arrangement, read the contract and see what you need to do to give the other party notice of intent to terminate. Your right to terminate would be absolute and immediate if the other party were in material breach of the contract, by the way.

Ditto to the above as to the contract, but you can hire an attorney to send them an immediate cancellation letter and tell them if they want their items to come pick them up. I've seen this work frequently, but that is not a guarantee of success. The worst that will happen is they sue you in small claims court, where judges are not happy to enforce such onerous contracts. If serious about doing this, and if the reward to risk ratio makes sense, feel free to contact me.