When your landlord passes away, what are the next steps?You will be granted permission to stay in the property if your landlord decides to honor or extend your lease.

Another possibility is that your new landlord wants to start again and end your lease, in which case you’ll have to find another place to live.

The 75-year-old Jane Sayner did not choose either of these alternatives. St. Albans, Melbourne, Australia, has been Jane Sayner’s home for almost twenty years.

She paid AUD$250 a week to live in a two-bedroom apartment owned by St. Albans multi-millionaire John Perrett. He was compensated by her for the honor.

The amount she has been paying since she moved there remained unchanged.Buying a new home would be

out of her price range if she had to relocate.
Going back to work or moving in with her stepchildren were her two choices.

Jane made the decision that she didn’t want to work any more after spending 25 years at her prior job.She doesn’t want to consider going back because she is the one who has to pay her rent.

By some fortunate coincidence, she need not.
Her landlord, John Perrett, passed away in September 2020.

Despite being a multimillionaire, he had never been married and had never had children.He did, however, receive a kidney transplant thirty years before to his death, which extended his life.

About 18.6 million Australian dollars, a sizeable portion of John’s wealth, was given to the Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Nephrology Department. John felt happy with the choice he had made.

The proceeds from the sale of a single unit were donated to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in the amount of AUD $400,000.That left Jane as one of the two long-term renters left with two residences.

It is true that Jane, the current owner of the apartment that she had previously rented, was given the two-bedroom unit by John.

She was finding it difficult to accept what she was hearing.This was not the first time Jane had encountered this knowledge.

One day, John made the decision to give her a call to find out her entire name.

Then, one day, he called and said, ‘I’m leaving you as the owner of your unit; could you please give me your full name?

My solicitor is here.’ I was mistaken to think I had misunderstood. Without a doubt. For as long as I knew him, he was always going to donate all of his money to charity, according to Jane.

Even though Jane was saddened by John’s death, she must have felt some relief when she realized that the house was now hers.

She clearly made the flat feel more like a home ever since she moved there more than twenty years ago.

The speaker claimed to have ‘treated this location as if it were my own.’ The backyard didn’t have a garden when I moved into the house.

Because of my residence here, I planted a lot of plants and flowers that are still there now, just as Jane mentioned.

John remained calm and urged Jane to make the place feel more like a home rather than getting upset.He also brought the old pots from his father, which Jane might use for other plants.