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I voted other due to your location now. If this dream house is in close proximity to your current residency, hell no. If in another state or farther away I say go for it.

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Originally posted by SSgt USMC/Vet:
I voted other due to your location now. If this dream house is in close proximity to your current residency, hell no. If in another state or farther away I say go for it.

No, it's YOUR dream house in the perfect location for YOU.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

Yup.

I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost.

I voted other. If the estate of the deceased had hired one of the hazmat pros to take out the nasty then yes. If they hadn't then no as I'm not dealing with that.

Did the house murder the person OR is the murderer included in the purchase of the house.

If both answers are no then I'm snatching it up and having a beer on the front porch smiling.

I think some of you may be surprised at how many homes have had dead people inside.

I remember a friend that lived in a historic part of town had a knock on the door from somebody working on their genealogy. They came back at a later date to walk through the home, and brought old family photos with them.

Inside were photos of a guy in a casket. In their family room. That's how funerals were done back then. They would have never known had they not seen the photo.

I don't believe in Ghosts but I gotta wonder how bad could they be, probably good company, long as they aren't watching me rub one out.

Voted no, since I'd expect it to create long-term drag on any future sale at any price.

Funny story, we passed on a house in Birmingham for something even less dramatic. aFter agent took us through, and we got to garage where a car was parked in an otherwise empty house. Why was this?

Turns out the mom who lived there had recently died or been moved to a care home. The car belonged to the adult son who was away at an "institution" for help after having killed a neighbor.

Oh hell no.

I voted no. Superstitious, I guess. My mother was 100% Irish and dad was 40% Irish; the roots of my raisin’. There’s probably no banshees though
probably

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
Voted no, since I'd expect it to create long-term drag on any future sale at any price.

While there's a widespread belief that you have to disclose in-home deaths to buyers, that's not a requirement in most states. Even the handful of states that do require that disclosure typically have a time limit, usually within the past 1-3 years.

So unless you live in one of the states that does require it AND you're planning to flip it shortly thereafter, or it's a small town where everybody knows everything about everyone's business, or it was especially famous/high profile incident where news of it would still be readily accessible many years in the future, then it's unlikely that a subsequent buyer would know anything about it.

(Yep, that means you could currently be living in a home where somebody died, and they didn't have to tell you... Oooooh, spooky.)

Try this:

Put an Ouija board in the front room and leave all of the interior doors open.

If nothing moves after three days, buy it.

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Originally posted by Beancooker:
I’m not superstitious and I don’t believe in haunted houses. I wouldn’t want to think about the people that were murdered every time I walked through a certain room, or whatever. My home is a place for me to unwind, relax, and feel at peace. I couldn’t do that thinking about how, why, etc., someone was killed.

This is my thought as well. A house where someone died? You'd be hard pressed to find a home older than a few decades where someone hasn't died in it.

However murder is a different story, and if I knew there were murders that took place in the house it would be hard to get that thought out of my head.