Inherited lien

Definition

The unpaid tenants' liens that come with the facility, because the statute names successors.

Why It Matters

The operator's lien on stored property runs to the owner and the owner's heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, so a buyer does not start clean: every unpaid unit arrives with a live claim and with the discipline required to enforce it. Florida's clock is a demand for payment at least fourteen days out, advertising once a week for two consecutive weeks, and a sale no sooner than fifteen days after the first publication, with vehicles waiting sixty days from maturity. Any sale must conform to the notice and be conducted in a commercially reasonable manner. Read the delinquency file as an inherited obligation, and note that the person who buys at auction takes free of claims even where the operator got the process wrong.