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In Australia, this still happens. The man is the story below, discovered a house in Sydney whose occupant had died. He changed the locks with no-ones permissio
by satori99 4y ago
In Australia, this still happens.
The man is the story below, discovered a house in Sydney whose occupant had died. He changed the locks with no-ones permission and started renting the property out to other people. He did this for 20 years before filing the paperwork to take ownership.
Relatives of the the decease owner were contacted, and they tried to to fight him, but he won in court fairly convincingly -- And got himself a $1.5M house and 20 years of rent payments.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/nsw/developer-wins-court-battle-to-become-owner-of-vacant-sydney-house-20181031-p50d4v.html https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/nsw/developer-wins...
- bombcar 4y agoIt was more than 20 years since the last recorded owner: > Justice Darke said when the last owner Henry Thompson Downie died in 1947, he did not leave a will and no representative was appointed to the deceased estate. > A tenant was living in the property at the time, and she remained there for a further 51 years until she died in April 1998. Who was paying the property tax I wonder, and did the gov't even notice? I suppose that's the "council rates".