{"id":5911,"date":"2024-09-26T20:52:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/?p=5911"},"modified":"2024-09-26T20:52:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:52:30","slug":"woman-thats-been-renting-same-home-for-years-finds-out-deceased-landlord-left-home-under-her-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findnews5.com\/?p=5911","title":{"rendered":"Woman that\u2019s been renting same home for years finds out deceased landlord left home under her name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"8b6f096671da924326c04f02653a866c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M935653ScriptRootC1574480\"><\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/f\/i\/findnews5.com.1574480.js\" async><\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\n<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>When your landlord dies, what happens?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Either the landlord chooses to honor or extend your lease, allowing you to remain.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alternatively, you may have to look for another place to live when your new landlord decides to start over and cancels your lease.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/viralhatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/tenanthouse3.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was neither of these options for 75-year-old Jane Sayner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more than twenty years, Jane Sayner has called St. Albans, Melbourne, Australia, home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For AUD$250 a week, she rented a two-bedroom apartment from multimillionaire John Perrett of St. Albans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had been paying the same amount ever since she moved into the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jane had worked at her previous job for twenty-five years, and she had had enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She doesn\u2019t even want to consider going back because she had rent to pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, she is spared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/viralhatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/tenanthouse5.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John Perrett, her landlord, passed away in September 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite being a multimillionaire, he never got married and never had kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But thirty years prior to his death, he underwent a kidney transplant, which prolonged his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John was appreciative of the fact that the Royal Melbourne Hospital\u2019s Nephrology Department received a sizable portion of his fortune\u2014roughly AUD$18.6 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A flat that was left to the Royal Melbourne Hospital was sold for AUD$400,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jane was one of the two long-term tenants who were left two properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, Jane, who now owns the house she formerly rented, received the two-bedroom apartment from John.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, Jane had heard about this before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, John actually gave her a call to get her complete name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThen one day he just rang me and said, \u2018My solicitor\u2019s here, can you please give me your full name, because I\u2019m leaving you your unit.\u2019 I thought I hadn\u2019t heard it right. Surely not. For the whole time I had known him, (leaving all his money to charity) was always what he was going to do,\u201d Jane recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/viralhatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/tenanthouse1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though Jane was devastated by John\u2019s death, she must have felt a great sense of relief knowing that the house is now hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has undoubtedly added coziness to the space since she moved in more than 20 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI treated this place like it was my own. When I first came here there was no garden out the back. Because I was living here, I planted lots of plants and flowers, which are still here today,\u201d Jane shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of getting upset, John urged Jane to make the place feel more like home.<br>He even brought the old pots from his father, which Jane could use to grow more plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no doubt that John and Jane were more than just landlord and tenant; they were friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After about an hour of conversation, John would tell Jane about his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She occasionally cooked for him as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John was not only childless and single, but he was also an only child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It made sense that he had given Jane the unit since she had shown him friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/O0btjzqDTs4\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When your landlord dies, what happens? 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