Yep, apparently I was. As I mentioned, I wasn't basing my question on experience with it (and it's been a long time since law school). On general property law concepts, it seemed strange, but I guess was thinking more along the lines of personal property (and "repossession") rather than real estate (which has plenty of quirks just for historical reasons) and was especially forgetting that the outstanding mortgage can be less than the value of the property, so The Law requires it be "sold" to protect the debtor's right to whatever difference there might be, rather than just immediately/directly transferring title outright to the mortgagee upon "foreclosure".
It really doesn't have anything to do (necessarily) with heads being up asses, it would depend on their relationship with the neighbor (and of course vice versa) and what, if any, "signs of weirdness" there might have been. By nature, I myself (try to) interact socially with pretty much anyone I see more than a couple of times in a row (except totally random passers-by, which would generally get me branded as a nut here in the city
) but I know plenty of people who basically ignore even to their immediate neighbors (here in Brooklyn, and in the various 'burbs in various states that I have any experience with.) So if there were no pile up of mail, house lights left on 24/7 for a month on end, etc, someone who doesn't normally interact with them might well wonder what was up with the suddenly vacant house, but they also might well not call the cops to "report" it...
It really doesn't have anything to do (necessarily) with heads being up asses, it would depend on their relationship with the neighbor (and of course vice versa) and what, if any, "signs of weirdness" there might have been. By nature, I myself (try to) interact socially with pretty much anyone I see more than a couple of times in a row (except totally random passers-by, which would generally get me branded as a nut here in the city
Spare me the "city dwellers" are assholes bullshit. I spent my elementary and junior HS years in in a small town (population 2000) - where quite a few people "didn't speak to" (ie, socially shunned in every way possible) quite a few other people (near neighbors being favored subjects) because of absurd and extremely petty 10-20 year old grievances and/or prejudices (although admittedly they might well have made inquiries about "strange goings-on" with a view to reporting them for malicious reasons
). And I have family and quite a few friends/acquaintances in various suburbs (on Long Island, the northern NYC 'burbs, New Jersey, and for that matter in the "friendly South-ish" (North Carolina). The New Jerseyite family member is rather "forcefully social" so unless you're willing to be blatantly rude to a "friendly" elderly woman (and few people are) you will interact with her, whether you really want to and for that matter regardless of your ability to speak or understand English<lol>, but most of the rest all have immediate neighbors they "never speak to" (or who "never speak to" them), and most of that group has at least one neighbor they say it about with the sort of shifty, averted glances that imply those stupid small-town-type feuds we city dwellers love to make fun of.) If you live in some sort of "Pleasantville", congratulations, you are truly "unique".
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