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Would you buy/live in a house where there was a murder?

JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
edited June 2012 in A Moving Train
I saw this article and was surprised that it isnt necessary to disclose the fact that someone might have been murdered in a house when it is for sale:

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2 ... crets?lite

In this case, the house had two tragic events where multiple people were killed.

Would you buy a house or live in one where a murder took place?
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  • mikepegg44mikepegg44 Posts: 3,353
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    I saw this article and was surprised that it isnt necessary to disclose the fact that someone might have been murdered in a house when it is for sale:

    http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2 ... crets?lite

    In this case, the house had two tragic events where multiple people were killed.

    Would you buy a house or live in one where a murder took place?


    depends on what happened...crime of passion in a good neighborhood? yes. Murder from a home invasion or some other crime that is consistent with a bad area of town? no
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  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    mikepegg44 wrote:
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    I saw this article and was surprised that it isnt necessary to disclose the fact that someone might have been murdered in a house when it is for sale:

    http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2 ... crets?lite

    In this case, the house had two tragic events where multiple people were killed.

    Would you buy a house or live in one where a murder took place?


    depends on what happened...crime of passion in a good neighborhood? yes. Murder from a home invasion or some other crime that is consistent with a bad area of town? no

    The house in the article seems to be a pretty nice place in a good neighborhood. Two murdered in 2002 and then another in 2010! yikes. It wouldnt bother me that it happened, but I think that I would think about it all the time. I wounldnt want to live in any place where a murder happened. Thats why I wonder if it should be required to tell potential buyers. I'd hate to find that out a few years down the road.
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    For me (assuming the home is in an otherwise decent neighborhood), ignorance would be bliss.

    I mean, if there should be disclosure about murders, then one could extend that to...hmmm, a child was molested in the home. A woman was consistently abused in the home. Someone got really drunk and shat all over the living room floor of the home.

    All homes have histories, good and bad...I'm not sure I want or need to know them if in the end, it makes no difference to my ultimately enjoying living there.
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    No I wouldn't...
    I feel spirits too keenly, whether imagined or not! ;)
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    I saw this article and was surprised that it isnt necessary to disclose the fact that someone might have been murdered in a house when it is for sale:

    http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2 ... crets?lite

    In this case, the house had two tragic events where multiple people were killed.

    Would you buy a house or live in one where a murder took place?

    I had this same thought some time ago about a house here in our community Homeland. Apparently, 2 or 3 people were killed in the house by the husband (stabbing) and the house was for sale for about a year and a half. it didn't sell and the for sale sign is gone and the house appears to have fallen into disrepair....weeds, overgrown lawn etc. My step son snuck into the house and said they were still blood stains on the walls and a mess inside. This is a neighborhood where houses sell from 500k-3 million, but to answer your question even in this community even with a great deal I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Not gonna do it.

    It's like buying a housing KNOWING it was infested with whatever no one needs that added stress. Anybody ever watch that show about all sorts of infestations? Where it's so bad people abandon their house and furniture from rats, snakes, bats, fleas, dustmites, roaches..etc.

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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    i wouldn't.

    i just feel uneasy about it.

    i can't explain why. it would just creep me out too much.

    i think it should be mandated that you have to disclose that information if you are the seller though.
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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    edited June 2012
    pandora wrote:
    No I wouldn't...
    I feel spirits too keenly, whether imagined or not! ;)
    same here. i wouldn't move in.

    and this place here had a few folks killed in the fucker over the years, different incidents. the house has an energy in it that probably isn't right. they say some spirits or badass energies can make the living go insane and do hurtful things to others. fuck that. i don't dig nasty spirits very well and will beat their asses. :evil:
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    Boo!
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    Based on g under p's response, I revise mine - if there were physical or olfactory evidence in the home, then no, I couldn't do it. But in terms of energy or whatever we choose to call it, I think it's possible to overcome that.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    i wouldn't.

    i just feel uneasy about it.

    i can't explain why. it would just creep me out too much.

    i think it should be mandated that you have to disclose that information if you are the seller though.

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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    as long as the clean up crew did a stellar job, absolutely. I don't believe in all that ghost/negative karma bullshit. Someone got killed.....they're dead. It's not like they are gonna come back and kill you cause you moved into they're old house. That shit's for 3rd graders. I stopped reading R.L. Stine when I was 10.
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    youngster wrote:
    as long as the clean up crew did a stellar job, absolutely. I don't believe in all that ghost/negative karma bullshit. Someone got killed.....they're dead. It's not like they are gonna come back and kill you cause you moved into they're old house. That shit's for 3rd graders. I stopped reading R.L. Stine when I was 10.

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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,426
    No way! But I would buy I house where this happened:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBSAeqdcZAM
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  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    no. i'd be too creeped out to ever be comfortable living in a house where someone had been murdered. not that i'd be in danger...but i'd constantly have the heebie-jeebies from the all negative energy left behind

    i think realtors/sellers should be required to disclose that info to prospective buyers
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  • javis el errantejavis el errante Buenos Aires Posts: 6,138
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    I saw this article and was surprised that it isnt necessary to disclose the fact that someone might have been murdered in a house when it is for sale:

    http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2 ... crets?lite

    In this case, the house had two tragic events where multiple people were killed.

    Would you buy a house or live in one where a murder took place?

    totally
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  • markin ballmarkin ball Posts: 1,075
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    I would.

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  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    brianlux wrote:
    No way! But I would buy I house where this happened:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBSAeqdcZAM

    As long as they don't charge you extra for the plane! :lol:
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  • FrankieGFrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    If i didn't know about it then definitely.

    If the murder was of the type where it wasnt messy and they took the body out and cleaned up very well, maybe.

    If it smelled like decomp or if there were blood staind, etc, then hell no.
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  • 8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    interesting question

    the sane normal side of me says no big deal...

    but the other sides says....whoa buddy....not sure i wanna live there.

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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    It all depends.
    Sell me that house for 1/2 of the $90K asking price... I'd buy it, tear that shit down and put up a place, brand new with a 2 car garage... then, sell it for the $200K comps in the area and fully disclose that no murders took place in that brand new home.
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    I'd also buy the Manson murders home if I could get it for $45K.
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  • mysticweedmysticweed Posts: 3,710
    yep
    especially if the price were driven down because of it
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  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    I guess it all depends on the details. But I would feel a bit annoyed if I bought a place and found out later that two people were shot to death in my living room. The fact that it happened would not bother me, but the fact that I would think about it all the time would. Then again, we've all probably lived in many places where people have died (violently, or not).

    There's a house down the street from me where a father massacred his family...I think wife and three kids. It creeps me out even when I drive by. What do they say? "If the walls could speak?" :?
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  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,156
    It would depend on if the house had a really scary basement or not.

    Worse then murder (kind of), I read a story of a couple that got a deal on a house in Washington. But soon after moving in, their kid started getting sick all the time and the mother was getting rashes. After a year or so, the next door neighbor revealed that the former resident used the house as a meth lab. :sick: But there were not any law requiring the seller to tell them about it at the time.

    Looks like we will need to start add meth investigations to foundation reports and termite inspections when looking for a house.

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  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    Jason P wrote:
    Looks like we will need to start add meth investigations to foundation reports and termite inspections when looking for a house.

    :fp:

    I would take a meth lab or murder scene over the termite nightmares i've had. Fucking bugs eating, ..EATING...my house. :fp:
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  • mikalinamikalina Posts: 7,206
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    I saw this article and was surprised that it isnt necessary to disclose the fact that someone might have been murdered in a house when it is for sale:

    http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2 ... crets?lite

    In this case, the house had two tragic events where multiple people were killed.

    Would you buy a house or live in one where a murder took place?


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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    if i did the murdering then sure.. why not? :twisted:
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  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    catefrances wrote:
    if i did the murdering then sure.. why not? :twisted:


    note to self: never go housing hunting with cate :-P
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