It would seem that the application of commercially reasonable practices when it comes to storage charges against a tenant’s abandoned goods and chattels is not always the case.

When a tenant abandons their goods and chattels following a landlord’s termination of tenancy for non-payment of rent, what is the mechanism wherein a landlord can claim storage charges?

Landlord’s election between two mutually exclusive remedies is irrevocable and once the election is made, the other remedy is unavailable during the same default period.