When then-51-year-old Jane Sayner looked for a home to rent in Melbourne, she never expected this would lead to her becoming a homeowner.

22 years ago, in the early 2000s, Jane had been looking to rent a two-bedroom house with a garden.

She went to St. Albans, a community northwest of Melbourne that she loved, and was so happy to find the perfect unit for her.

She didn’t know how perfect it was.

Jane had been paying AUS$ 200 a week in cash for her unit since she started living in it 22 years ago until now.

Her rent never changed.

When she moved into the unit, there was practically nothing in it or the garden except for one potted plant.

She had transformed it into her home over the years when she wasn’t working at her job at a market in Epping.

Jane loved the house.

She treated it as if it were her own. She took care of it because she wanted to do it for her landlord, the best landlord, John Perrett.

Because she took care of the house, John made sure that everything in the house worked perfectly as well for Jane, especially with the maintenance.

One day, John surprised her with a phone call and said that his solicitor (his lawyer) was with him at that moment.

He requested that Jane give her full name to the solicitor because he wanted to give her the house she was renting.

Jane was confused and said maybe she didn’t hear him right. But it was true.

John really had left the house to her.

Around the same time, John had also moved into a nursing home because of his Parkinson’s Disease.

And it wasn’t his condition talking that influenced his decision.

John has always been very generous.

Johns had millions and many careers.

John had amassed a multi-million-dollar fortune that he used for the community.

He was also a pharmacist, a football player, a property investor, and a philanthropist.

There was even a time when he donated AUS$ 19 million to the Royal Melbourne Hospital nephrology department.

He was extremely grateful to the Royal Melbourne Hospital nephrology department because they saved his life and took care of him when he received a kidney transplant around 30 years ago at the same hospital.

“That was a life-saving gift, I guess, to take him off dialysis and he was obviously grateful for the care that he received, for all the doctors and nursing and medical staff to look after him at the Royal Melbourne Hospital,” Professor Nigel Toussiant from the Royal Melbourne Hospital said.

The Royal Melbourne Hospital also made a good decision to invest the money so the hospital and patients can benefit from the donation for many years.

Jane was also grateful to John for leaving the house to her. Jane loved the house and always hoped she could retire in it.

Jane’s wish came true.

She retired while still living in the same house.

John didn’t have a family of his own and he was an only child, that’s why the decision was also very easy for him.

He passed away in 2020 and the house was officially left to Jane.

“I thank him still every day of my life,” Jane said.

Learn more about the kindness John showed his long-time tenant, Jane, in the video below!

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Source: YouTube – A Current Affair, 9Now