Surprise in your rose garden - Rightmove

[Chanandlerbong01]

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

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

Reading that article made me well up, how tragic to die like that and only 61, I find it quite fitting that he wanted to stay with the house. I'm just not sure who will want to buy it and keep him with it.

I buried my daughter in the back garden of our London terrace but we did exhume her when we moved (very expensive it was too!). Didn’t affect the house sale in any way and they knew she was there.

That looks like a fairly normal raised veg bed to me ...

You could be right, Bluntness, though spuds aren't the only thing that can be buried - however after reading the article I agree it's most likely the fish pond

A little surprising, though, that the family cared enough to follow his wishes about the burial but not about keeping the house in the family; between 4 kids I'd have thought someone might have wanted it

But as for "Who has a fish pond in their gravelled over front “garden”?" ... my neighbour does!!

Clearly this is a family who thought they were doing the right thing by a loved one but didn't think through the implications of their decision.

On a purely mercenary note, a garden with shared drive access at the front, an embedded Leeds United plaque (!) and half its back garden leased from the local council would not be an attractive proposition to me as a prospective purchaser unless the property were on sale at a steal (and bearing in mind all these considerations, this isn't). This place is ripe for neighbour disputes and totally lacking in privacy front and back, as well as requiring a complete internal overhaul.

As for the continued residency of its former tenant, the knowledge that he'd died in the property wouldn't trouble me at all. Nor would the presence of interred ashes - or even a burial plot in a far larger property with more land and less immediate proximity to the house. In this situation, where the plot takes up half the portion of the garden actually belonging to the house, is to say the least an unconventional practice.

The story of what happened to Michael Jackson is very sad indeed. He was far too young and it's tragic his mother outlived him. It's also said that the talking-point of their relatives property has likely exacerbated their grief, which must still be raw. But it's become a talking-point precisely because the circumstances of the sale created that conversation. Their decision was unwise. But decisions made following the death of a loved one, especially when sudden and unexpected, often are.

That house is definitely 1930s, it's classic inter-war council housing in Leeds (I live here).

@MarieIVanArkleStinks

Clearly this is a family who thought they were doing the right thing by a loved one but didn't think through the implications of their decision.

On a purely mercenary note, a garden with shared drive access at the front, an embedded Leeds United plaque (!) and half its back garden leased from the local council would not be an attractive proposition to me as a prospective purchaser unless the property were on sale at a steal (and bearing in mind all these considerations, this isn't). This place is ripe for neighbour disputes and totally lacking in privacy front and back, as well as requiring a complete internal overhaul.

As for the continued residency of its former tenant, the knowledge that he'd died in the property wouldn't trouble me at all. Nor would the presence of interred ashes - or even a burial plot in a far larger property with more land and less immediate proximity to the house. In this situation, where the plot takes up half the portion of the garden actually belonging to the house, is to say the least an unconventional practice.

The story of what happened to Michael Jackson is very sad indeed. He was far too young and it's tragic his mother outlived him. It's also said that the talking-point of their relatives property has likely exacerbated their grief, which must still be raw. But it's become a talking-point precisely because the circumstances of the sale created that conversation. Their decision was unwise. But decisions made following the death of a loved one, especially when sudden and unexpected, often are.

Yes i hope they're not stressing too much and thinking shit we have done the wrong thing. They did what they thought was right at the time. There have been unkind comments about the family selling the house but death can be an expensive business and maybe selling was their only choice. Or maybe there were too many memories there and it hurt too much to hang on to it.

That poor man, what a horrible thing to happen.

But decisions made following the death of a loved one, especially when sudden and unexpected, often are

Actually this is very true, and can’t be underestimated. It is no where near the same, but when my last dog was pts, he had become very ill and was only four, I was seriously devastated, he was like a child to me, I buried his ashes in the garden, and got a little Labrador statue, to mark the spot, it’s a very large garden, but I put it some place I could see it, very close to the house.

Now three or four years later I regret the statue, becayse every time I look out the window I look at his grave, but at the time it was really important to me. Loosing a child or parent is much worse, so the decisions made in the height of grief may not be the one you make if you were thinking sensibly.

But as for "Who has a fish pond in their gravelled over front “garden”?" ... my neighbour does!! Is it considered particularly odd to have a pond in your front garden? Now I'm worried I've committed a terrible faux pas and made my house unsellable.

@BoJoHoNo

But as for "Who has a fish pond in their gravelled over front “garden”?" ... my neighbour does!! Is it considered particularly odd to have a pond in your front garden? Now I'm worried I've committed a terrible faux pas and made my house unsellable.

Certainly less odd than having a grave in the garden!