Surprise in your rose garden - Rightmove

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Just browsing Rightmove earlier, glad I read the full description. Is this even legal?

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-76868103.html

@leasedaudi3 nope the green door belong to the house.
I walked the road on Google and I thought the same but then I saw all the houses are wide like that. The green door belong to the house.
You can see the size on satellite how wide it is.. also the door number..

@Washingmyself ah I see ! So it must be a very recent pic on street view or old pics on the real estate site.

I was put off buying a house when the owner, showing us round, mentioned that her husband was an undertaker. I envisaged having nightmares while sleeping in the former undertaker’s bedroom.
They also had a large dog. Would it dig up the odd femur from the garden?

Yes ridiculous I know, but luckily the dog jumped up at small DS2 knocking him over. A good excuse to terminate the viewing.

He died in that chair, didn't he. They've had to clean the carpet in front of it.

[quote leasedaudi3]@Washingmyself ah I see ! So it must be a very recent pic on street view or old pics on the real estate site. [/quote]
I suspect it’s old street view, it usually is and recent pics from the agent. The house has clearly been emptied and of course what looks like the plot clearly visible in the back garden, becayse grass doesn’t grow in the winter.

They are two different houses not the same one

And would you fulfil someone's dying wish

@mnbvv

And would you fulfil someone's dying wish

In this respect, I think I’d have to move to cremation snd scatter the ashes. If that wasn’t possible, and it needed to be burial the truth is I’d tell the person I would but would not. I’d feel shit about it, but I’d not do it. So no I would not fulfill it. No more than I’d do anything else inappropriate becayse it was a dying wish.

I actually think it is really inappropriate to bury someone there like that. It’s a tiny garden, they are smack bang in the middle, and it’s feet from the house. I am really surprised the council permitted it.

A big garden yes, somewhere respectful and discreetly done. But no way would I bury someone like has been done here. No way at all.

It's a bit of a moral conundrum isn't it... especially if the executor is also the beneficiary of any proceeds. By carrying out someone's wishes, you're potentially doing yourself out of >£50k of inheritance. I hope that it's because whoever is now trying to sell the house loved that person so much, and the financial implications are irrelevant.

Or sadly, perhaps they don't have any family.

I'm a little surprised they didn't try and have ashes scattered at Elland Road though, looking at the house.

They have family as it says it was the family selling in the listing.

I suspect they loved the person very much and did it becayse rhey promised, the over inflated price tag would indicate rhey had no idea of rhe financial implications of it.

But it’s not just the financial Implications, I personally just don’t feel it’s appropriate to bury someone in that small a garden so close to thr house, in a property you intend to immediately sell. It’s not like they were planning to keep it in the family for generations. They have buried that person there and then put it straight on the market. And over valued it for its condition, even without the body at the back door.

That's the second time I've forgotten the listing said family!

I'm not sure I'd say inappropriate as much as just bid odd. For the same reasons you've stated - it's not exactly a peaceful resting place, nor somewhere which is remaining in the family. Would be curious to know if the family were in agreement when this was discussed beforehand.

Like a PP i think the seller didn't get on with whoever he'd left the house to.

I don't get why they have listed it so high- surely an estate agent would give the executor a realistic idea of price.

Am I the only one that wouldn't have a huge problem with this?

Is that him in the middle, by the bird bath, then? They could have put him further to the back, granted, but he'd make a lovely mini wildflower meadow.

Likely the agent articulated it but you can still list for whatever price you want.

Interestingly you only need the owner of the property owners permission, the next of kin, not the whole family. But for exhumation you need the whole family to agree.

So whomever was left the house, was the one who said yes,it may have been multiple people, Ie a couple of kids.

I’d have assumed they got on, becayse whomever was left the house did not have to do it, they could easily have refused after the person passed. Which indicates to me, that whomever was left the house loved the person very much, just none of them realised the implications of it.

They were likely thinking sentimentally, and not practically.

I was thinking about this thread while watching Finding Alice last night (without spoiling there's a similar issue discussed) and have decided if it knocked tens of thousands of the asking price, I could definitely live with a quiet ex-resident in the garden.

Hmm,,I could do it in the house on finding Alice,,,no probs,,but I think if I could afford a terrace without a body in the back yard I’d defo go for that option,,,and pass on the saving,,,😃

What about if it completely different?
Maybe the person was buried there few years ago and someone else ( family) lived there until now and maybe just now decided to sell it?
The dark patch in the garden near the water feature was also visible on Google satellite view- I don’t think the Google pics are very new..

PLEASE NOBODY SPOIL FINDING ALICE - I'VE GOT IT RECORDED AND HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET.

Thank you. As you were.

Exhuming a body is a lot more difficult and fraught with really serious legal complications (as it should be for a variety of reasons) than interring one in the first place

Yes, it is - especially, as bluntness rightly said, when it's a recent burial

On lighter news, I see there's a hole in the kitchen plasterwork. Probably just for the tumble dryer vent, but is anyone else wondering if he'd tried to tunnel back in??

I think I’d have to move to cremation snd scatter the ashes. If that wasn’t possible, and it needed to be burial the truth is I’d tell the person I would but would not. I’d feel shit about it, but I’d not do it. So no I would not fulfill it. No more than I’d do anything else inappropriate becayse it was a dying wish

I admit this would be my own approach, and anyway why not have a cremation and inter the ashes? It would still presumably count as a burial in some form and would have avoided the dfficulties

On another note I'm not sure why many are saying he's "in the middle" ... I thought the rectangular area with the wooden edges next to the boundary was the actual burial site?

Rightmove have removed it

Given the rooms decorated in old style kids prints, they must have had children, who grew up, got married and they kept the deco like that until now.
I wonder about his wife, maybe she is still alive and moved to care home etc? Hence selling the house?

I thought the rectangular area with the wooden edges next to the boundary was the actual burial site

That looks like a fairly normal raised veg bed to me, we have rhem ourselves.

if it knocked tens of thousands of the asking price, I could definitely live with a quiet ex-resident in the garden
Me too. But judging by the asking price they obviously haven’t realised that what they’ve done will knock off more than half of the value.

www.ladbible.com/news/uk-family-of-man-buried-in-house-speak-out-about-his-body-in-the-garden-20210120

Here is more information about the man who died, I hope it isn't inappropriate to post it. Please remove Mumsnet if it is.

He was only 61 and his mother is still alive, I imagine it was possibly her who wanted to follow his wishes.