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Apartment Owner Took My Bike Without Notice

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LOCATION: California Woke up the other morning to find that my electric bike was missing. This was a huge hit for me due to the fact I don’t own a car and I had two other bikes stolen from the same place last year. I assumed it was stolen and reached out to the building owner letting him know of the theft, turns out he had someone cut my lock, as well as 3 others that were parked in the same spot, and took it to a storage unit without warning or any attempt on notifying us they were doing this. They did notify us earlier this year that we need to keep our bikes in a certain area, but due to the previous thefts, I said I would be comfortable doing this if they put up security cameras in the area. They have not. He claims it’s a building code violation. I looked this up and it turns out to be illegal to take a tenants property to an offsite location for any reason because it’s literally stealing at that point. I’m not sure what I should do to proceed and get my bike back without them kicking me out of my apartment for making a stink. What should I do?

submitted by /u/SorcersStoned
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