ADDISON, Texas (WFAA) – Residents in one Texas community are expressing regret over not doing more to check on a neighbor who was found dead inside her home.

The Homes of Addison Place are a group of townhomes built in 1983.

A unit on Planters Row was sold at a Dallas County foreclosure auction on Tuesday.

Sixty-nine-year-old Pauline Williams was listed as the owner in default of her bank loan.

But police say that when the new owner who bought the house at the auction went to the property for the first time on Wednesday, they found the mailbox full, the side yard overgrown with weeds and Williams’ body in the living room just feet from the front door.

“Very regrettable that I and my neighbors didn’t check on her,” Gary McIntyre said.

McIntyre lives next to the home, while Austin Math

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