As a small landlord, I hear the horror stories of people who pass away and leave all their belongings, in many cases hoarding conditions, whilst the surviving relatives can’t be contacted or have no interest in clearing out the property for MONTHS.
If you are not running your rentals as a business investment, you will be paved under. Not to say this action was correct in this case but there are two sides to every story and the media LOVES to play up the eeeeeeevvvvviiiiiiil landlord, which more than likely is Big Apartment or Government Housing, and the poooooooor, opressssssssssssed tenant.
100% agreed.
Correct. It wasn’t reported, but I would not be too surprised if the family just left all of this woman’s possessions in the apartment. But, because of really shoddy journalism, we may never know the answer.
As an aside, this apartment complex is about 2 miles from where I live. Just a curiosity, I have no connection with any of the parties at all.
I saw an example of this in a small apartment building I lived in thirty years ago. I lived in one of four apartments in a 100 year old house. There was an old lady who lived in the back of the house on the second floor. I lived there for almost three years. I only saw her once from her door. She never left the apartment.
One of the other tenants had gone in once. He described it as a typical hoarders apartment. Stuff piled up everywhere. Narrow walkways to get through the rooms. She was still there when I left in 1990. She had been in that apartment for ten years or more.