I hear ya there! Celebs are dropping like flies left and right and I have SEVEN points for the whole damn year. 
Where’s the Death Pool for 2017? Haven’t played in a while.
Here.
The Grandma from Hell having finally kicked the bucket at the early age of 102 years and 350 days, Idiot Aunt has set herself as the person in charge of finding a buyer for Grandma’s flat and all contents thereof (so far, attempts at getting money for the contents have met with “we can take it all away for free”, and don’t complain: other people charge for taking it away). That’s the flat I rented from Grandma for a couple of years and for which I made an offer a year ago, offer which was initially accepted by Idiot Aunt and Cousin Standby* but then not, this leading to Idiot Aunt squatting on the flat and me determining that this must mean the lease was up early.
The price she’s being quoted and is very happy about is the same I offered, with a big difference: selling it to a stranger involves taxes that selling it to a grandchild of the vendor does not. But she’s very happy that she’s such a good biznesswyman and so in charge and stuff.
I know I’ll eventually be able to say “whatever” and mean it, but right now I want to hit her with a hardbound accounting handbook in several volumes.
- nickname from a friend of my mother’s who, upon hearing some of the stuff she’s done, said “ah, she’s like a TV on standby: it’s hooked up to the current, the little light is on, but the TV is not really on”.
Am I to assume that the use of the word “flat” means you live in the UK?
Just asking because in the US legally you can’t just “assume” responsibility of selling a deceased’s estate without being named Executor by the Will or deemed that responsibility legally.
Spain. The legal system doesn’t even involve Common Law but Civil Law. There is no Executor named in wills, for example; the heirs generally get together and pick who’s going to handle the paperwork. Idiot Aunt can’t finalize the sale of the flat, but she can put it up for sale since she’s got the other heir’s verbal agreement. The reception of the inheritance is provisionally scheduled for February: if there is a buyer by then, the two pieces of paperwork can be done in a single notary/registrar visit (well, three; the buyer will probably need a mortgage and that involves the notario as well). If there isn’t a buyer at that point, the sisters will receive the shared, undivisible property and will both need to be present whenever the sale takes place.