body found inside home sold at auction. dead 16 months....

[OutHouse]

umm wtf? so a house gets foreclosed on, goes to auction gets sold and NOBODY ever goes in the house until its sold??

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...a/dead-body-found-inside-home-sold-at-auction


FOUNTAIN, Colo. -- A realtor who bought a foreclosed home at an auction found a dead body inside the house.

Fountain police told KRDO-TV that they were called to the home months ago for a welfare check, but couldn't legally go inside without a cause.

Real estate agent Hootan Emami told the Colorado Springs Gazettethat he and his contractor found the woman lying on the bed in the master bedroom, still dressed, even wearing high heels.

Investigators told KKTV that paperwork and calendars in the home led them to believe she may have been dead for 16 months.

Police do not suspect foul play, but her cause of death hasn’t been determined.

 

[z1ggy]

I bet that must have smelled just lovely.

 

[Eug]

^^ Probably smelled as good as Surstromming.

Or maybe even better than Surstromming, since after a while, a body will become mummified.

 

[ElFenix]

Until it's sold anyone else would be trespassing. The cops could go in for a check if someone reported a foul odor but that's about it.

 

[SKORPI0]

Not the first time that it's happened..

Man Buys Foreclosed Home and Finds Former Owner's Corpse Inside - nov 2014.
San Francisco house where woman's mummified body was found is on sale for nearly $1M
June 2015
This Pile Of Crap House That Held A Dead Body For Eight Years Has Sold For $1.1 Million
feb 2016

 

[sandorski]

It's like Fallout.

 

[CraKaJaX]

So the buyer gets the house and a bonus dead hooker? Holy shit! Who's bringing the blow to the house warming?

 

[renz20003]

Well usually at auction house are sold as is...Now with free body!

 

[NetWareHead]

Dont think it smelled if the body had been dead for months. Ever had an animal die in your walls, attic or somewhere else inaccessible? You know it's there BC of the decay smell. But it goes away slowly and after a while it's gone. Can't think a body would smell months later...

 

[Miramonti]

Fountain police told KRDO-TV that they were called to the home months ago for a welfare check, but couldn't legally go inside without a cause.

Seriously?...in the least, whoever called for the welfare check should have been alerted by the police, who could have then gone inside themselves or arranged for family to go inside.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Without knowing the circumstances it's hard to say what really happened other than the person was found dead with their clothes on. If she'd been chained to the bed or something really outrageous then it could open the door for other possibilities. Many times when a person loses their spouse they give up on life especially when they become overly depressed. If you've never lost a mate there's no possible way that you can understand what a person in that position is feeling plus you should try to have some compassion for others.

 

[IronWing]

deadbeat

 

[Imp]

You gotta die sometime. What you have against dying?

 

[MrDudeMan]

deadbeat

i loled. A+

 

[Spacehead]

Until it's sold anyone else would be trespassing.

I've never been to a house auction but you're not allowed to look inside the house before bidding on it?

 

[OutHouse]

Seriously?...in the least, whoever called for the welfare check should have been alerted by the police, who could have then gone inside themselves or arranged for family to go inside.

i know, so no missing person investigation? all kinds of fail on this one.

 

[ElFenix]

I've never been to a house auction but you're not allowed to look inside the house before bidding on it?

Not in a foreclosure. If the owner doesn't consent (and plenty don't), the house is being bought with only what can be found out from walking by on the street.

 

[master_shake_]

as the new owner are you required to bury it at your cost or can you just put it at the curb on garbage day?

 

[dank69]

I feel like selling a dead body at auction should be illegal.

 

[Mike64]

Not in a foreclosure. If the owner doesn't consent (and plenty don't), the house is being bought with only what can be found out from walking by on the street.

I've never personally or professionally dealt with this situation, but how does that work? I understand why the cops couldn't just wander in without legal cause or a warrant prior to foreclosure, but a sale can't happen until after the mortgage has been formally foreclosed and title to the property formally transferred to the mortgagee (otherwise, all they'd be selling is the mortgage itself with the attached "right to foreclose", not "the property" itself, which they would not in fact own.) Why would the former owner, who no longer has any legal interest in the property, have to consent to anything?

 

[lupi]

Letting people go inside at a foreclosure auction in general would only give opportunity for people to downgrade the house value in the bidders eyes, so why would the seller want that?

 

[IronWing]

Letting people go inside at a foreclosure auction in general would only give opportunity for people to downgrade the house value in the bidders eyes, so why would the seller want that?

True, skeletons in the closet and all that.

 

[ElFenix]

I've never personally or professionally dealt with this situation, but how does that work? I understand why the cops couldn't just wander in without legal cause or a warrant prior to foreclosure, but a sale can't happen until after the mortgage has been formally foreclosed and title to the property formally transferred to the mortgagee (otherwise, all they'd be selling is the mortgage itself with the attached "right to foreclose", not "the property" itself, which they would not in fact own.) Why would the former owner, who no longer has any legal interest in the property, have to consent to anything?

You've jumped ahead in the process to when after the foreclosure has occurred.

If you hold a mortgage on a property and the owner stops paying, your remedy, pursuant to various procedural requirements, is a foreclosure sale. Afaik foreclosure is by auction in all 50 states. That auction is a sale of the property. Not until that sale happens has the owner lost his interest in the property.

Usually the bank ends up owning the property after that auction because it can credit bid. iow, it's owed $300,000 so can bid $300,000 without any money actually changing hands.

At that point the bank owns the property and can allow onto it whoever it wants.

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Dont think it smelled if the body had been dead for months. Ever had an animal die in your walls, attic or somewhere else inaccessible? You know it's there BC of the decay smell. But it goes away slowly and after a while it's gone. Can't think a body would smell months later...

As someone who encountered a body where the person was dead for at least 9 months, it definitely still smells. It might've been contained in the house until the door opened, but when it opened.... They smelled it.

 

[OutHouse]

I've never personally or professionally dealt with this situation, but how does that work? I understand why the cops couldn't just wander in without legal cause or a warrant prior to foreclosure, but a sale can't happen until after the mortgage has been formally foreclosed and title to the property formally transferred to the mortgagee (otherwise, all they'd be selling is the mortgage itself with the attached "right to foreclose", not "the property" itself, which they would not in fact own.) Why would the former owner, who no longer has any legal interest in the property, have to consent to anything?

now my head hurts....