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US-IA / Iowa Code § 578A.7(2)(a)(1)–(5), with delivery under § 578A.7(7) (Iowa Code 2026; enacted 2019 Acts ch. 50 as §578B.7, renumbered to §578A.7 by 2020 Acts ch. 1063, §§318–319)

Self-storage software for Iowa operators.

Iowa's self-storage lien statute encoded day-by-day: first notice at D+7, sale eligibility at D+30, with publication, delivery, surplus, and fee guardrails pulled from Iowa Code § 578A.7.

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Iowa lien clock

The full day-by-day clock, with statute citations.

This is the actual policy seeded for Iowa. Every delinquent account locks in the rules that applied the day it opened.

US-IA / v2026.06.26

Iowa lien timeline

Late fee
Safe Harbor at D+5
Notice path
Notice of Default at D+7, then Notice of Sale at D+21
Sale gate
Auction eligible at D+30 after the 7-day sale lead

Email notice requires the seeded paper-fallback evidence path before lien advance.

The full day-by-day timeline — every transition, delivery rule, and citation from first notice to auction — runs live in the product, and every case pins the version in force the day it opened.

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What UnitOps does differently for Iowa operators

Built around the Iowa statute, not retrofitted onto generic PMS.

  • 01 The lien clock starts with Notice of Default at D+7, holds 14 days before Notice of Sale at D+21 under Iowa Code § 578A.7(2)(b), keeps the auction gate closed until D+30, with citations Iowa Code § 578A.7(2)(a)(1)–(5), with delivery under § 578A.7(7) and Iowa Code ch. 578A §§ 578A.1–578A.10.
  • 02 Vehicle and titled-property handling stays separate at D+30, with tow evidence kept out of the ordinary goods sale path under Iowa Code ch. 578A §§ 578A.1–578A.10.
  • 03 Publication is not required under Iowa Code ch. 578A §§ 578A.1–578A.10; sale evidence still tracks a commercially reasonable advertisement. Delivery evidence tracks Notice of Default by in person, verified mail, and email (with the occupant's consent) and Notice of Sale by commercially reasonable advertisement and online listing.
  • 04 Surplus is held for 90 days; then routes to the county where the self-service storage facility is located. Per Iowa Code §578A.7(5): surplus held for the occupant for 90 days; if unclaimed, the operator delivers the balance to the county, which holds it for the occupant for 2 years. Run your own payment processor and your own QuickBooks — UnitOps never sits in the middle of either.

Lien evidence packet

Built for the day you get sued.

For Iowa cases, the packet presents the evidence trail beside the policy snapshot that was pinned when the case opened. It lists notices, delivery proof, ledger entries, photos, and state changes in chronological order. It presents records and citations only. The downloadable sample uses fictional seeded data with redacted names and a SAMPLE watermark.

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