Posted on 11/06/2014 10:53:01 AM PST by Red Badger
The new owner of a foreclosed home in Cape Coral got more than he bargained when he went to inspect his purchase.
William Wilson bought the light pink house on SE 19th Lane for $96,000 at an auction on Tuesday, according to the News-Press of Fort Myers.
When he went to mow the lawn and check out the house itself on Wednesday, he found a corpse on the master bedroom floor. Wilson told the paper all that remained was the bones, skin and smell of the remains.
Wilson said the inside of the house was a mess and it looked like whoever lived there was packing to move.
Cape Coral police said the most recent piece of mail was from November of 2011 and unpaid taxes went back three years, according to the News-Press.
Longtime residents of the neighborhood said the last people to live in the house was an older woman from Miami and her sister, but they hadn’t been seen or heard from in years.
Dead body?
That conveys...
So how did the ‘body’ vote?
That is so sad. I certainly hope that the death was from natural causes and not violence. May she rest in peace.
Realtors call them stigmatized properties.
check the voter rolls & see last time she voted. She might still be alive,.
Here in Florida, sellers are required to inform prospective buyers that a death occurred in the house. Might make it kinda difficult to resell.................
(Hitchcock violins): *Skreeek! Skreeek! Skreeek!*
That conveys...
With the deed......................
Shouldn’t he now have the option of voiding or nullifying this sale? Full Disclosure of the home’s physical condition did not occur.
Even the guys buying unclaimed storage lockers get a quick look inside before bidding.
This guy didn’t even get that?
A GOOD realtor could spin it in to a ‘positive’...
Full disclosure of the previous owner's physical condition may not have occurred, but a corpse is a removable fixture.
Obviously not a “charmer”.
It was bought at a foreclosure sale. Most likely the sale had an as is clause.
Damn! that looks like moochele after having to subsist only on the crap she is forcing on the school kids............it’s an improvement!
YUCK! We had a rat die in our attic.... it took forever fore the smell to fade. I don’t like to think how long it would take for this odor to fade.
It’s especially difficult to sell a house on the west coast if someone has died in it. Apparently in some Asian cultures the house becomes undesirable.
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