“Don't worry, your house will be sold in three months.” Eleonore Jelitto remembers exactly the promise made by the realtor, whom she initially commissioned with the search for a new owner for her home in the Recklinghausen district.
Five years ago, the now 88-year-old had been burdened with maintaining the house that she and her late husband had built in 1955 and the large garden. What made her so sympathetic at the time: He immediately agreed that the market value of the property was at least 160,000 euros. "I would get that amount in any case, he told me," recalls the former confectioner.