Two years ago Elan Schoffman moved into care, leaving his flat empty while bills built up. Since then, he has sadly passed away - but the sale of his old flat and the bills from his care have lingered unresolved over his children's heads.
But things finally looked resolved, right up until the point the coronavirus lockdown hit. "Last Tuesday was lining up to be a great day," Elan's son Marc told Mirror Money. "After two years my brother, sister and I were due to exchange on our late dad’s flat." The property had proved hard to sell, thanks to being in a retirement block with strict eligibility requirements for buyers, and things had hardly been improved with the swirling uncertainty created by changing Prime Ministers, general elections