Found the remains of the previous owners wife at one of my flips

[Jason Pritchard]

Sooooooo.....I just recently purchased a house that I am in the process of flipping and today one of the guys in my contractors crew found the cremated remains of the previous owners wife in the garage.  I have tried numerous times to get ahold of the seller so we can arrange shipment of the remains but at this point I have not had any luck getting ahold of him.  Obviously I'm not going to just throw the remains away but I not really sure what to do if I can't get in touch with the seller.  If anyone has run across this issue before and can give me some advice I would appreicate it.   

[J Scott]

Originally posted by @Parker Detweiler:

 On scale you can not take the time to deal with things like that it just isn't feasible for us.

Wait... What scale are you doing that you can't save someone's cremated remains until you can find a family member? 

If you're really doing that large of a scale, I imagine you have a warehouse where you store materials, right?  

I only do 20-30 deals a year -- and I'm not the least bit sentimental -- and I would keep those for the next ten years while I try to contact family. If you're doing larger scale than that, I can't imagine you don't have some extra space somewhere. 

Just seems like if there was one thing in the world not to throw away, that's it...  Though maybe that's just me...