Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California
Here is my situation. I am on a college wrestling club, and we keep our wrestling mats in one of the rooms at the event center on my campus. They have been stored there for years. Recently the organization that owns the event center rented out the room we use to store our mats to a third party. While our mats were still inside. When my team and myself came to get our mats in order to use them somewhere else we were told we could not enter the room to get them because it had been rented to a third party, and now the school had no access to that room. And be default we have no access. It should be noted that these mats are NOT school property but the property of our wrestling club paid for by us the students. When asked when we could get our mats, we were told not until the rental agreement was over with the third party, which is about another week or so. I can see our mats from the window of the building but can not get them. The mats are 100 percent our property. The school was just storing them in one of there many rooms. Am I just out of luck? Can they keep me from my mats? Which by the way are worth several 1000 dollars.
3 Answers from Attorneys
The organization that owns the building is giving you the run around. They can easily contact the group renting the room and get them to allow access to get your mats. If not, the organization has illegally taken your mats from you and is civilly liable for any damages you have suffered. The fastest approach is to contact the renting groups and ask them if you cn get the mats at a mutually convenient time. The owner had no right to prevent you rom gaining access to the mats.
Have you tried contacting the group or company that is actually renting the room, to get this resolved? Why would they want to rent a room with your mats in them?
I agree with the previous answers. Nothing that's happening will change the ownership of the mats. Finally, I might add, when all this is over, your group should review its relationship with the owner of the event center to formalize your right to store your mats and how the parties can contact one another. Your storage arrangement seems to have been pretty loosey-goosey.
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