Woman that’s been renting same home for years finds out deceased landlord left home under her name

Either the landlord agrees to honor or extend your lease, allowing you to remain.

If your new landlord wants to start fresh and cancels your lease, you may need to find a new home to live.

For 75-year-old Jane Sayner, neither of these was an option.

Jane Sayner has lived in the St. Albans neighborhood of Melbourne, Australia, for over twenty years.

She was renting a two-bedroom flat from St. Albans’s multimillionaire John Perrett for AUD$250 per week.

Since she moved into the house, her monthly payment has remained unchanged.

After twenty-five years, Jane decided she had had enough of her prior employment.

Since she has rent to pay, she has no interest in returning.

Thankfully, she will be okay.

Her landlord, John Perrett, died in September of 2020.

He amassed a fortune but never tied the knot or started a family.

But he had a kidney transplant that extended his life by 30 years before he passed away.

John was glad to give the Nephrology Department at the Royal Melbourne Hospital a sizeable chunk of his income (about AUD$18.6 million).

Royal Melbourne Hospital raised AUD$400,000 via the sale of a condo that had been given to the institution.

There were two long-term tenants, and Jane was one of them. She was left two properties.

In fact, John gave Jane the two-bedroom apartment she once rented from him when she bought the house she had been living in.

Nonetheless, Jane wasn’t unfamiliar with this concept.

John called her up one day to acquire her full name.

“Then one day he suddenly called me and said, ‘My solicitor’s here, can you please give me your complete name, because I’m leaving you your flat.’ I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. The answer is obviously not. Jane reflected, “It had always been his intention to leave all of his money to charity.

Jane was obviously heartbroken by John’s death, but she must have felt a huge feeling of relief upon learning that the house was legally transferred to her ownership.

Since she moved in over 20 years ago, she has unquestionably made the place cozier.

“I treated this place like it was my own. When I originally moved in, there wasn’t even a backyard. Jane said, “When I lived here, I planted a lot of flowers and plants that are still blooming today.

John, rather of becoming angry, urged Jane to make the apartment more like a home.
He even brought his dad’s old planters so Jane could expand her garden.

That John and Jane were more than landlord and tenant was beyond dispute.

John would tell Jane about his dad after they had been talking for approximately an hour.

She would also make him dinner on occasion.

In addition to not having any children of his own, John was also an only child.

Because of Jane’s kindness, it made sense for him to give her the unit.