I'm listed on the assessor's site, and so is my phone number and my own residence address, and yes, I'm the actual owner.
She wasn't elderly and didn't have mental problems. She was 42. She just got very sick, and mentioned to friends that she was thinking about going to the ER. She just didn't make it. I find it odd that her friends didn't check up on her during the 10 days that nobody heard from her. She had one living relative, a nephew, who apparently has a lot of issues and lives about 40 miles away.
Since this event, I've called police dispatch to inquire about why I wasn't called. It seems to be a case of passing the buck. (The coroner and the police department both said they assumed the other would have called me.) I was told by dispatch that I could register my properties with them so they'd have my phone number in case there was an incident, so of course I did that. Hopefully I'll never need to be called, but i really don't have a whole lot of confidence that it'll happen anyway.
In past years, when I was still married, my husband occasionally got calls in the middle of the night about incidents that happened at our properties, so I know the police used to make the calls.
This was my favorite tenant, and we'd often have great conversations whenever I'd go by to do some maintenance. We'd had a text conversation just a couple of days before the day I think she died. I told my then-husband when I first met her a few years ago that my first impression of her was that she was the kind of person that I'd love to have as a friend, but I thought it was best to keep it on a professional level.
I feel that the police and/or the coroner really should have called me, but I think I'm most disappointed in the mail lady. When mail is overflowing, along with other issues, she really should have reported it, IMO.
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