Eighteen Years later
Nov. 13th, 2013 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormouse1953Two items in the post this morning, two identical letters addressed to the previous occupants of this house, husband and wife.
I moved into this house in 1995!
I opened one of the letters out of curiosity, expecting it to be an advert from some mailing list. Turned out to be from a firm of solicitors concerning a will deposited by the previous owner in April, 1995. That could only be a couple of months before they put the house on the market. You'd think they might have told their solicitors they'd moved. For that matter, I wonder if the solicitors was the firm that represented them when they were selling the house. I probably have the paperwork around here somewhere.
Then again, a few weeks after I moved in, someone turned up on my doorstep one Saturday morning claiming to be a solicitor representing the previous owner in a court case. From what he said, the previous owner had done a runner to avoid paying a large sum if he lost his case. I gave him the details of the house purchase and never heard any more, although I was getting phone calls for him for some months afterwards.
The previous owner had told me he was moving abroad for his health. He had emphysema and kept an oxygen cylinder in the living room. I wonder if he is still alive.
I resealed the envelope, scribbled "Not at this address" on both letters and dropped them in a post box.
I moved into this house in 1995!
I opened one of the letters out of curiosity, expecting it to be an advert from some mailing list. Turned out to be from a firm of solicitors concerning a will deposited by the previous owner in April, 1995. That could only be a couple of months before they put the house on the market. You'd think they might have told their solicitors they'd moved. For that matter, I wonder if the solicitors was the firm that represented them when they were selling the house. I probably have the paperwork around here somewhere.
Then again, a few weeks after I moved in, someone turned up on my doorstep one Saturday morning claiming to be a solicitor representing the previous owner in a court case. From what he said, the previous owner had done a runner to avoid paying a large sum if he lost his case. I gave him the details of the house purchase and never heard any more, although I was getting phone calls for him for some months afterwards.
The previous owner had told me he was moving abroad for his health. He had emphysema and kept an oxygen cylinder in the living room. I wonder if he is still alive.
I resealed the envelope, scribbled "Not at this address" on both letters and dropped them in a post box.
