Posted on 03/07/2014 7:00:37 AM PST by Dallas59
For years, the payments went out of the woman's bank account.
Nobody batted an eyelid. Bills were paid. And life went on as normal in the quiet neighborhood of Pontiac, Michigan.
Neighbors didn't notice anything unusual. The woman traveled a lot, they said, and kept to herself. One of them mowed her grass to keep things looking tidy.
At some point, her bank account ran dry. The bills stopped being paid.
After its warnings went unanswered, the bank holding the mortgage foreclosed on the house, a common occurrence in a region hit hard by economic woes.
Still, nobody noticed what had happened inside the house. Nobody wondered out loud what had become of the owner.
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Up`n here NH, VT, northern NY State , there used to be poorhouses and also for the poor and indigents who later were assigned a volunteer wealthy individual to support them thru the county and town auspices.
Later on in this continued since 1800 thru 1960`s thru the counties.
Then the federal govt. funds came into the counties. The counties set up a system whereby every week a county worker will stop by the house of a senior citizen [any income level] and make sure they are ok. If no answer at the door, they call the phone and their cellphone & they call the cops, fire rescue and relatives right away if no answer. Your tax dollars at good work- never lost anybody yet for 50+ years.
“I don’t suppose a postal worker or neighbor would have noticed mail piling up in the box, or the electricity being completely shut off, no shoveled driveway or walk, no footprints in the snow for an entire winter.”
Actually, in the Detroit area, these things are not that uncommon. On my block, there are 2 empty homes at any given time. Including my direct neighbor house. I’ve been shoveling that damn walk all winter long!
Then we also have a few renters and they don’t know how to work a snow shovel either.....
Well then, thank god for global warming and these warmer winters. Detroit certainly doesn't get the amount of snow they used to. ;o)
“The woman, who authorities aren’t identifying until they’ve informed her family,”
Um, her family doesn’t care. 6 years.
What I don’t get in the all the comments is why it is so bad to die alone rather than with a bunch of goobers standing around yacking and texting. Seriously my goal is to autopay all the accounts (which I do mostly already), then use my final bit of strength to crawl into the woods as far as I can and do my last little bit to help out the possum or bear or whatever else comes along. Maybe I won’t succeed, but I absolutely refuse to die hooked up in a lysol smelling hospital or even a hospice with somone strumming a guitar nearby.
I like it, but shoot me an email first.
Um, her family doesn’t care. 6 years.
If they cared, they could have had a share of that $56,000 but they let the autopay drop it to zero.
I had a college friend who said if he felt the cold fingers coming he’d want to crawl/work his way in and amongst the deepest recesses of a large government building HVAC system. A true Patriot... :-)
Hahaha! Good one. It is a tundra here today in the high 30’s. Must be all the SUV’s.
I believe that Michigan townships send the peasants semi-annual property taxes rent bills. Doesn't matter if the peasant "owns" the property free & clear with no mortgage. The local governmental unit still owns it.
You get two years in unpaid taxes rent, then the local governmental unit forecloses on its property, and sells it within the third year. Odd that they didn't steal this woman's house sooner.
Reminds me of my first car when I was sixteen. I paid $100 for a 1969 Mercury Montego (in 1977) because my step-father’s boss’s wife offed herself in it.
We called it “The Death Mobile” (remember, Animal House came out that Summer).
We pay property taxes too.
Weird. Maybe she committed suicide, but if so, the medical examiner should be able to determine that.
the house was foreclosed on. she had a house payment that I am sure escrowed the taxes and insurance.
SS disability or survivor?
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