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Jane Sayner was enjoying a quiet day when she received an unusual call. It was his landlord and he was asking her a strange question.
“My solicitor is here.” Her landlord John Perrett said, “Can you please give me your full name?”
Sayner, a cancer survivor, has been living in one of Perrett’s properties since 1998.
She described him as a “good landlord” as he never fails to take care of his tenant. Sayner said if something needed fixing, help was sent right away.
To return this faithfulness, Sayner shared she tried her best to be a good tenant. This meant taking care of the property and paying her rent on time.
The two have a good relationship.
Sayner shared that she always treated his house like her own. She even built a garden out the back when she noticed there wasn’t one.
She described Perret as an old-school businessman who claims the rent in person. So when he swung by one time, he saw the house garden adorned with beautiful plants.
“When he saw what I’d done, he brought over some old, big pots that his father had had that he didn’t use, that I could plant things in,” Sayner recalled to The Daily Mail.
The two also talked every now and then whenever she pays rent.
Perrett was an only child who never married. He lives alone so conversations can only come at certain moments.
“We’d talk for an hour or so because he used to be by himself all the time. We talked about everything. His father, his life as a chemist in St Albans.” She said to The Daily Mail.
Sayner also helped Perrett get situated. She took him to buy roast because he finds cooking difficult, and she even convinced him to change his old TV out.
Eventually, Perrett was transferred to a nursing home.
He had a couple of falls and was enduring his Parkinson’s. Sayner called the facility at least once a week to check on the old man because she knew company was hard to come by in those places.
Then, she received the call that changed her life. Perrett was settling his affairs and decided to gift Sayner something she’d never forget.
Perrett left the house in Sayner’s name.
The rest of his fortune went to the Royal Melbourne Hospital where he received an important transplant that extended his life.
Another long-term tenant also got a house while others received money, like the handyman who worked for him.
As Perrett died during the height of COVID, pandemic restrictions barred people from attending his funeral. Only ten people were invited, and Sayner was one of them.
After receiving the best gift, Sayner decided to retire.
Sayner just wanted to enjoy life after surviving cancer. Because of the gift, she doesn’t have to work just to pay for rent.
With a roof over her head and a monthly pension, Sayner said she couldn’t ask for anything more.
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