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

Cosmo

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.

mysticweed

yep
especially if the price were driven down because of it

JonnyPistachio

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?" :?

Jason P

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. 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.

:fp:

JonnyPistachio

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:

mikalina

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?

No - I get spooked easily ....

catefrances

if i did the murdering then sure.. why not? :twisted:

prism

catefrances wrote:

if i did the murdering then sure.. why not? :twisted:

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