Would you buy a house where someone died?

Kristin&Frank

Creeping me out...

We're going to see a house tomorrow.  3 actually.  One looks FANTASTIC.  I looked up the public tax record and found out who owns it.  Then googled that name.  I found an obituary.  It says he "died at home surrounded by family and friends."

ON MY BIRTHDAY.

JustaKidAtHeart

Well my dad hung himself in our garage when I was 12 and I still lived their.  I even moved back their the first year I was married.  So I guess it wouldnt bother me.

craziheazo

It wouldn't bother me.

June24Bride

I'd buy it if it was fantastic, heck yes. 

dana316

It wouldn't bother me in the slightest.  During my time as a hospice nurse, I was with countless families when their loved one died, at home.  Those families went on living there...no issues with it whatsoever.

There are tons and tons of people who die at home...tons...

 

qtpa2t

Unless you're buying new houses, someone has probably died in any old home at some point in time.

caityr

qtpa2t:

Unless you're buying new houses, someone has probably died in any old home at some point in time.

This.

3 people died in my house growing up and we did not move. Chances are if you buy an older home someone died there, and you may never know it but who cares? 

LucyPevensie

Sounds like a peaceful death.  Wouldn't bother me.  My BIL died in his bed at home unexpectedly, I did wonder if that would cause problems down the road when my sister had to sell the house - but it didn't. 

keg

I would have no issues with the house...actually it sounds like a great way to die.  If it had been a bloody home invasion, maybe I'd have second thoughts. :-) 

charmcitygirl

I think if it was a nice house, I would go for it! 

BeccaLandes

It wouldn't bother me, either.  That is a pleasant death (surrounded by family and friends) , not a gory murder.  The birthday thing is kind of weird, but when you think of it, every day is someone's birthday and someone else's last day.

sliz

only if it were a peaceful natural death....

AvaLikeLava

Yep. The previous owner of our home died here. We were told as we toured. It didn't bother me because I knew she didn't die a violent death. She was elderly, and died surrounded by family who loved her.

I am VERY skiddish, and spook easily, but sometimes I'd like to think she's watching over me and the boys when we're home alone.

kittylove

Someone who was murdered or killed themself, I would have issues with but a peaceful older person dying, wouldn't bother me.

jlcrane78

kittylove:

Someone who was murdered or killed themself, I would have issues with but a peaceful older person dying, wouldn't bother me.

Sorry I'm an IFer lurking.  I agree that a peaceful death is not a big deal.  My uncle was murdered in his own home, and I wonder how anyone could live there with that on the disclosure sheet.  If someone was murdered in the house, that would creep me the heck out.  I'm ok living in a home where someone of any age died peacefully though.

itsmevkb

I would buy a house where someone died of peacefully but not where someone was murdered or killed themself.  I think at least one of the parents of the woman who owned our home died there and that doesn't bother me.  A few years ago in a house up the street a man shot his girlfriend and then himself and I now call that house the "murder house" and wonder how the people who bought it live there.