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Gosh! Someone I know has been left a £400K property by a little old lady because....

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NormaSnorks · 19/01/2008 17:45

...she used to walk her dogs for her!

Turns out that the old dear didn't have any family, so left a few lump sums to a couple of friends and the RSPCA, and left the house to this mum I know from school!
They were just friendly neighbours, but when the lady wasn't too well, this mum used to take the dogs out, and also do bits and pieces of shopping I think.

What a lovely story.....

no, no, I'm not at all, honest.....

(Norma wanders off to make list of local pensioners with dogs and no family....)

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ConfusedMover · 19/01/2008 17:49

Fanstastic story.

Mommalove · 19/01/2008 17:49

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Magdelanian · 19/01/2008 17:51

Yes its a lovely story, and the mum is very fortunate to have helped out a grateful person. I bet she did not expect such a reward.

Miaou · 19/01/2008 18:02

Wow - that's karma for you

Califrau · 19/01/2008 18:24

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constancereader · 19/01/2008 18:27

I know someone who was left a property because he mowed the owner's lawn. It was a lovely Georgian Farmhouse.

Desiderata · 19/01/2008 18:39

I clean for an 89 year old lady who's become housebound due to hip troubles.

She used to be the house-keeper for the local landed gentry. She bought her own house in the village when her husband died, and lived in it when she retired.

They approached her with a view to a deal. For the rest of her life, her utility bills would be paid (in her own home), and they would pay for one holiday a year for her. In return, on her death, they would have her house

All in all, I think it's been a pretty wise investment for them, as they've done nothing to update the house in over thirty years.

She has no family at all, and won't spend a penny she doesn't have to. I bet she's one of those old ladies that is found to be worth hundreds of thousands on her death.

The reason for this tale is to remind you all of the importance of making a will. I'm sure she has ... she's very shrewd, but the thought that the government would take it all is bloody awful!

pukkapatch · 19/01/2008 18:41

who are 'they' desi?

oxocube · 19/01/2008 18:55

What a nice story. What goes around comes around and all that

Desiderata · 19/01/2008 19:02

The landed gentry she worked for, Pukka.

Sorry, that wasn't clear

Hassled · 19/01/2008 19:12

I'm at the constant beck and call of the mad old witch who lives next door and I do the bulk of her shopping for her. Conversations go like this:
MOW: I want some yoghurts
Hassled: Fruit or plain? Little pots or a big one?
etc etc

Then, a few minutes later..
MOW: What did I tell you to get?
Hassled: Yoghurt
MOW: WHat's yoghurt?
Hassled: Erm.. its sort of white and soft
MOW: No, that's not yoghurt.

Do you think I'll inherit the suburban semi? She has no family, hates everyone and is about 150. I feel I've earned the suburban semi

Saturn74 · 19/01/2008 19:19

ROFL @ Hassled!

MaureenMLove · 19/01/2008 19:22

No, she'll leave you the yoghurts you insisted on buying!

KrippledKerryMum · 19/01/2008 19:23

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Desiderata · 19/01/2008 19:24

Hassled, I reckon it's yours

tiredemma · 19/01/2008 19:25

My mom looked after an old gent for about 5 years before his death, shopping, cleaning etc- he became housebound and she was his only contact with outside world.
He left her 25k in his will.

Desiderata · 19/01/2008 19:25

Ahem .. quite right, Kerry!

pukkapatch · 19/01/2008 21:08

i used to visit an elderly housebound lady as a befriender. stopped because of kids commitn=ments. maybe i should restart?

PussinJimmyChoos · 19/01/2008 21:11

Old bloke lives alone over the road.....will start visiting him and flashing my tits to cheer him up and get the house......

VeniVidiVickiQV · 19/01/2008 21:14

We always kept an eye on the old lady next door to us.

She had her one of her sons, or neices etc visit her at least once a day, and they helped her with shopping. But if we had a power cut or something we'd always pop over and make sure she was okay. Help out with little bits if she needed something and didnt feel well. She died a few months ago

You should always keep an eye out for elderly neighbours.

MrsEi25 · 19/01/2008 21:21

a middle aged fella used to come into my mum and dads newsagents doin a bit of day to day shopping for the elderly man who lived next door to him. he stopped comin in so often after a while so the next time my dad saw him he asked what he had been up to and how the old fella was doin. he told my dad he had died a few weeks before and he had to sort out the funeral as the man had no family. he then went on to say that he had been called to a posh solicitors office for the will reading and to his surprise he had been left the mans entire 'estate'!! this included £750000 in stocks, bonds and cash and 3 houses each worth in excess of £150000!! the man sold tow of the houses and donated the proceeds to a seamans home charity (the old man was a marine in his younger days) and is now financially secure for life

xx ei xx

kerala · 19/01/2008 22:53

My granny was left a cottage in the lake district by an old lady in her fathers congregation. My granny's father (the vicar) died in his early 40s of appendicitis leaving my great granny as a single parent with 5 young children. So a very kind thing to do.

sb6699 · 19/01/2008 22:56

My mum is PA for a solicitor who deals with the will of a wealthy old dear who is now in a retirement home.

She has no family or friends who visit her and apparently she is leaving her house to the mobile hairdresser who visits her once a month to do her hair.

I think its quite sad really but the hairdresser will probably have quite a different view when the time comes.

lalalonglegs · 20/01/2008 10:52

My great aunt left one of her (three) properties to her cats and, when they died, it would pass to the man who used to feed them. The other two went to the solicitor who drew up the will .

Cam · 20/01/2008 10:59

sb6699

at your mothers breach of confidentiality there