Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-76.14.48.208-20150106175740/@comment-5278765-20150106234357

The house was left empty. Ellis was a wealthy woman, so she probably didn't ever bother selling the house in Seattle because it was a good real estate investment. The page on this wiki for Meredith's house also says that Meredith's grandmother once lived there. I'm not sure where that information came from, but if it's true, it makes even more sense that Ellis kept the house, because it had been in the family.