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Would you buy a house that....?
Someone killed themselves in?
There is a decent house that needs work in the town we want to live in but I just found out the woman killed herself in the house...
The house is listed under market value but like I said needs a lot of work... Its been on the market for almost a year and i dont know if its bc of the death or it really is a crap hole
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Re: Would you buy a house that....?
this actually was something that we came across when i was groing up
my parents were house hunting & the man selling the house informed them that he was selling because his wife commited suicide in the basement & he simply couldn't live there anymore.
my parents still put in an offer- they didn't get the house though.
as for me- i probably would. but like the pp said, if someone was murdered- probably not!
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My parents live in a house built in 1790 and there are records of at least 5 people dying in the house and 1 person killed by an intruder (in like 1830). The house is old and creepy and my aunt thinks there are spirits still living in certain parts of the house but my mom loves it so they stay.
If the house is your dream house, go for it!
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I do believe in ghosts- we had had way too much stuff happen in our house (that is only 4 years old and no one died there) for me not too believe in something.
Have you seen it? There's no....mess....is there? I mean, I know they clean that up, but have you seen those shows about crime scene cleanings? If there was blood it gets everywhere. Hanging or pills or something, not a problem.
I can't believe I just typed that.
I would have no issue. My only conern would be resale, since some people would have an issue with it.
Now a murder would be a different story b/c I would want to live in the "murder house."
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I personaly wouldn't. I don't know if I believe in ghosts but I do believe that the memories (good or bad) of a home are sort of absorbed into the house. To me the house would have an unhappy vibe.
I used to work in real estate and sold a home where someone had died. A man died of aids in his bedroom but that house had an awesome vibe. He and his partner had lived a very happy life there for 20 years.
A street over from where I grew up a man murdered his family with an axe. A surgeon bought the house and told everyone he lived with death everyday and it didn't bother him.
Would I buy it? Sure, if it was a great deal - but that's how I feel about any house that I buy!
Edited to add - the wife shot herself in the kitchen of the house we bought. All of the neighbors thought the husband actually did it. We found out that he was pretty abusive. My Mom didn't actually know that the wife had killed herself until a neighbor told her the entire story. My Dad assumed the mortgage from the husband and my Mom didn't even see the house until after he bought it.
Hmm. I'm not sure. I had a friend whose family bought a house like that when we were teenagers & had it exorcised though. They really do that.
I grew up with a graveyard as a backyard though... never thought twice about it, it was like a playground (sick I know) and ghosts in the graveyard is a whole different game when you have a graveyard to play in
. Plus the neighbors are really really quiet. It was not a creepy graveyard though. I do wonder if it will be harder for my mom to sell the house one day though.
Yes, I would.
I think it's a silly reason to pass up a house, if that is the only determining factor. People die every day. Many of them in houses.
We live in a mildly rural area and the older guy across the street from us hung himself a few years ago. His house has sat on the market since then. I've thought about it before and I don't think I could buy it. Also, there is a house about a mile down the road from us where a family lived, but moved 5 years ago. The year before they moved, the mother was driving the 10 year old son somewhere and got into an accident. The son, tragically, died. The house just came on the market (and sold quickly), but I don't think I could have even bought that house knowing about that poor family. I'm probably just weird, though.