Would you ever buy a home which had a *murder* in it?

[aprilgail2]

Originally posted by Nancy


I personally don't know if I could buy a house where I know someone was killed. When my dad died at home sitting in his chair, I could not sit in that chair at all. Now that it is in a

different house i have no problems sitting in it.

You kept the chair? I must be a real weirdo because if someone died in a piece of furniture that would be out the door before the person was buried!

 

[WDWLVR]

I think a murder might freak me out, but I had not problem taking over the bedroom my great aunt had died in. I never had my own room until that time and she and I were very close so that helped.

Years later after my Mom died and we were selling her condo I got a call from the realtor saying he had a potential buyer but he wanted to know if my Mom had died in the condo. She didn't and the sale went through. I guess he would have backed out if she had.

 

[NMAmy]

Originally posted by aprilgail2
You kept the chair? I must be a real weirdo because if someone died in a piece of furniture that would be out the door before the person was buried!

This reminds me of my mom. When my dad was dying and he had to go into a nursing home, I bought him a recliner to use there. He only sat in it a couple of times but my mom used it all the time while she sat with him--he died in bed, not in the chair. After he died, she didn't want it and so I have it at my house. She will sit anywhere in the house but in that chair--too many bad memories for her. She's happy now that I have a new house with a family room in the basement--that's where the chair resides now and she doesn't have to go near it!

 

[lynxstch]

to us is a house that must be jinxed..the first owner committed suicide there, another couple with 2 children moved in, one of the children died, then they rented it to 2 college kids, within a month one of the boys died in a car accident just down the road about 1 mile, it's rented again, but I don't dare tell the girl who lives there with her 2 year old about any of this..just plain spooky!
we also lived next door to a funeral home for 3 years..never again..the smells were atrocious!
Lynn

 

[Kimberle]

Originally posted by aprilgail2
You kept the chair? I must be a real weirdo because if someone died in a piece of furniture that would be out the door before the person was buried!

Me too!!!

 

[Lisa F]

Disclosure laws vary by state. In NY State the seller can pay $500 to not have to disclose anything about the property... they can know that it's falling down around their ears but for $500 they pretend they don't know anything.

In California, if a death occured in the house within the last 3 years it must by law be disclosed. The reason for this is the large Asian population that is in California and their cultural fear of spirits.

As far as me, I would probably buy a house in which a murder took place provided it was the right house and cleaned up. The house that we bought is 130 years old so who knows what has gone on in here but there were no "bad vibes" when we viewed it or moved in. My parents' recently bought a house that was being sold because the previous owners' 12 year old boy had died. It was a tragic accident caused by the neighbor. He didn't die in the house but rather in a hospital but the family couldn't bear to live there anymore. They didn't find this out until after they closed on the house. It didn't really bother them but they couldn't wait to remove the soccer border and repaint the rooms that belonged to the kids.

 

[minniepumpernickel]

I have a friend who moved into an old row house after someone died there. He kept the same furniture, even the mattress. He found old coins stashed under the bed that were worth quite a lot.


It would freak me out too much to sleep in a bed where a person died!

 

[Nancy]

Originally posted by aprilgail2
You kept the chair? I must be a real weirdo because if someone died in a piece of furniture that would be out the door before the person was buried!

yep...My Mom kept the chair. I couldn't even llok at it while it was still in the house...but since she has moved into a new place it doesn't really bother me. I don't know maybe because I feel a connection to my dad when I sit in it. It's been over 10 years and most times I don't even really think of it as being my dad's chair.

 

[Kimberle]

CT very recently passed a new law that states you must give info about deaths (not sure if any death or murder) when you sell your house. Whatever info you know, that is.

 

[Patty3]

NO!