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Really? I understand your position now, Monopoly, but if you review your earlier posts, well, it sure sounds like judgement to me :o I'm just reminding everybody that we don't always come across as we intend, as text is so poor at conveying tone... so if we're going to use emotive words...

Good pick-up, Bob. I obviously "skimmed" and I read it as she'd spent days cleaning up after her brother, who lived there at the time of his death, died, but I assumed she meant his personal effects. :o Doh!

Hmmm... I wrote the question and I'd assumed the tenant died in hospital, actually! ;) But if there was an "odour of death" in the property, you absolutely would need to get some very serious cleaning done, and I'm sure you're right that that's expensive, and I would make a claim on the...

With respect, I disagree, Monopoly. When my sister's husband died she had a whole raft of debts to deal with - and nobody gave a #*#$ that she'd just lost her husband at age 28. They just wanted their money. Including all the big Australian brand names.

Dead man's parking fees I remembered today that when my brother-in-law died eight years ago - he was only 28 - his car had been in the hospital car park. He'd turned up thinking he was going for a specialist's appointment and never left hospital alive. When I went to get his car out after he...

I was thinking of George Costanza (Seinfeld) when the guy committed suicide by jumping from the window of a tall hospital building, and landed on George's car, damaging it. George goes to the hospital administrator about the damage to his car, and it's just hilarious how callous he's made out to...

Monopoly and sootygirl, from an emotional and practical perspective, I'm with you. I would point out, though, that I doubt landlord's insurance would cover the cost, because you have a means of collecting the money yourself, from the man's estate. The fact that you think that's in poor taste...

I'm with you PeteB - this article just illustrates that for some reason, even though nobody would expect the ATO to write off his tax bills, or the bank to write off a mortgage, or the credit card bills to be written off, for some reason the bloody landlord is expected to suck it up! Having...

Here's an article from news.com.au this morning, about a landlord who sued a man's estate for rent in the period of 28 days after the man died. As I understand it, under the law, even though the man died, he was obliged to provide 28 days' notice to break his lease, and it's this 28 days that...