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US-MN / Minn. Stat. § 514.973, subd. 3 (contents of notice); subd. 2 (to whom/how sent, including lienholder notice for motor vehicle/watercraft)

Self-storage software for Minnesota operators.

Minnesota's self-storage lien statute encoded day-by-day: first notice at D+15, sale eligibility at D+60, with publication, delivery, surplus, and fee guardrails pulled from Minn. Stat. § 514.973, subd. 3.

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Minnesota lien clock

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

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

US-MN / v2026.06.26

Minnesota lien timeline

Late fee
Operator Configured at D+15
Notice path
Notice of Claim at D+15, then Notice of Sale at D+29
Sale gate
Auction eligible at D+60 after the 15-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 Minnesota operators

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

  • 01 The lien clock starts with Notice of Claim at D+15, holds 14 days before Notice of Sale at D+29 under Minn. Stat. § 514.973, subd. 4(b), keeps the auction gate closed until D+60, with citations Minn. Stat. § 514.973, subd. 3 and Minn. Stat. §§ 514.970–514.979.
  • 02 Vehicle and titled-property units stay on a separate tow-vs-lien track; the policy row marks tow as extinguishing the storage lien under Minn. Stat. §§ 514.970–514.979.
  • 03 Publication is required with a 15-day sale lead and publication in a newspaper for two consecutive weeks or posting on an independent public website under Minn. Stat. §§ 514.970–514.979. Delivery evidence tracks Notice of Claim by in person, verified mail, and email (with the occupant's consent) and Notice of Sale by newspaper publication and website publication.
  • 04 Surplus is held for 1 year (365 days); then routes to the state of Minnesota — unclaimed property funds account (Minn. Stat. §§ 345.31 to 345.60), reached after a one-year occupant hold of the sale surplus (Minn. Stat. § 514.973, subd. 6). 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 Minnesota 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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