[Freedom2specul8]

"They say that Scott's demeanor in the last couple of weeks has been unusual in that he has been playing golf, disappearing for lengthy periods of time, hired a defense attorney, has not been open with them, and met with a realtor about selling the house"

Thank you! I should have read the entire thread first..so this means he did not try to sell the house until after she was missing?

[spectre]

Is Scott still going to go to the Super Bowl to "hand out flyers"? Maybe after that, he could go to Mexico to hand out MORE flyers, LOL.

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[Devil_Anse]

so this means that he did not try to sell the house until after she was missing?

That's what I've been trying to figure it out. At the moment, I am thinking that he was looking into selling the house before her disappearance, and that he was also looking into selling it SINCE her disappearance.

No doubt he will tell the realtor now, "I really need to go ahead and sell it, it has too many memories for me of my poor wife and our hopes for our baby boy." The realtor, as all realtors will do, will try to be agreeable to whatever he wants to do. But there will still be some sticky points about selling it w/o the permission of his wife, who is not legally considered dead yet. Wonder what he'll do about that. Wonder if the house was in both their names--I think it was.

It occurs to me that maybe Laci and Scott exchanged durable powers of attorney some time in the past, so they could handle each other's business affairs if need be. Seems to me that that could enable him to go ahead and sell the house. (?) If this couple owned the house in a joint tenancy with right of survivorship, I am wondering, seems to me one party COULD sell the house. I am thinking that it is really only things like banking rules that would insist on the other owner's signature. I could VERY easily be wrong about this. Any California realtors out there?