Badger Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6659911.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewissheridan Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6659911.stm excellent, i'm surprised it didn't add value to the property. bet someone thought, we can do anything to this property and it'll earn money - and someone goes, oh yeah, bet you can't stick a dead mummified body in there.. and the rest is history... excellent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timm Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Back in the day when I was listing properties, we used to have to go there. You know, to measure the place, inspect it, stick a value on it, get rid of the corpses... How things have changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krustie allslop Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Buyer finds mummy in Spanish flat A man in north-eastern Spain has made an unexpected discovery after buying a new home without seeing it first. Inside he found the mummified body of the previous owner. Gordi Giro bought the flat in the Costa Brava resort of Rosas at an auction after the previous owner defaulted on her payments. He told police that he was shocked on going into the flat for the first time to discover her dead body sitting on the sofa. It seems that Maria Luisa Zamora failed to keep up payments on her mortgage because she had in fact died in 2001. Forgotten Police believe the body has been preserved by the salty sea air. Coroners said Mrs Zamora died of natural causes. But questions are being asked about why no-one has been concerned as to her whereabouts for the last six years. Police say neither her estranged husband nor her children in Madrid registered a missing persons report for the 55-year-old. Neighbours say Mrs Zamora had bought the flat as a holiday home and told AFP news agency that when the garden grew over they assumed she had simply stayed away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nohpc Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 This article is shocking. I am stunned that she could have been left there for 6 years and nobody reported her death. Not even her own family even put out a missing persons report. This property was reposessed, valued, auctioned, sold and then bought again with nobody looking at it? How the hell can that happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted May 16, 2007 Author Share Posted May 16, 2007 Yes, terrible. No-one expects to find a paella bones in their new property. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nationalist Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Yes, terrible. No-one expects to find a paella bones in their new property. You're bad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monopoly Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 How sad is that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverInflated Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I did some work experience for an estate agent while at college and going around some of the repossessed houses was the worst. One we went too had been abandoned and the previous owners had left in such a hurry that they had forgot they owned two cats. The smell was terrible, not just from the mess the cats had made, but from two cats that had run out of food and failed to escape. Once the house was checked a professional cleaning company was sent in to sort it out before it was sent to auction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Objective Developer Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Back in the day when I was listing properties, we used to have to go there.You know, to measure the place, inspect it, stick a value on it, get rid of the corpses... How things have changed. That's dead funny... I'll get my coat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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