Things like the loan provided to GM, no, NOT for it, I was 100% for let-em die because it's exactly what they earned, and the rotting corpse of GM would have been fertilizer for 10 NEW auto companies, BUT I do understand where the powers-that-be were at thinking that life cycle would have been too brutal and wanted to focus on the tens of thousands of jobs and incomes impacted by allowing the natural cycle to play out.  

The slug of water and sewage creates a temporary vacuum which draws air past the rotting corpse that then stinks up the bathroom in some fashion - crack in vent line, bad wax seal, etc. 

The silver lining in all this is that these are pictures of your foot and not of your tenant's two-year old daughter's corpse. 

You now have a new name for your subdivision “Corpse Acres.”More seriously, that sucks and sorry for the victim.

The appliance guy said the only way to fix it was to put the over on broil all day and turn the mouse corpse into carbon dust. 

RECPATAXMAN, If you could go into a little more detail on this S-corp SE savings.

Someone doing many deals a year, or an agent involved in a lot of deals per year already knows what lenders have the best rates, fees, who underbids the closing costs, who over-estimates, knows what lenders are going to have a delay which can make the deal fall apart, what lenders are going to be right on the timeline, what lenders give pre-approval to corpses, and what lenders fully underwrite a pre-approval.So it might be easier for someone who knows what they are looking at to shop around as you suggest, but I think for the novice, which is most of the population, they are safer getting a referral.

I wonder about the vents, since the bathroom has just one vent and I don't know where that leads -- I am not touching anything in the unit if I can help it.I found a product called Smelleze that has a "corpse smell" version for funeral homes and hospitals, etc. - maybe I'll try that first.A favorite realtor trick for open houses is to bake some chocolate chip cookies - but then again I don't want to ruin my appetite for chocolate chip cookies.

Highest rates, highest fees,....and with them being based in Detroit, they dont have the expertise to navigate local idiosyncrasies in the underwriting process, and they will write a preapproval for a corpse who has no chance of closing.  

This helps to weed out a lot of the people using lenders who will write a preapproval for a corpse.