Poll of the Day > I wish I could find a house or an apartment that had someone murdered in it.

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People act like that's a bad thing. I welcome cheaper prices.

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jsb0714 posted...

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Lmao
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Is that a thing anymore? I can understand back in the day where the stigma is really negative for it but I feel now in an anti consumer climate that you might get something meager like an Arby's coupon if you complain enough.

I think the stigma is more attached to home real estate (where people have large amounts of money and are looking for a permanent investment) than when people are shopping for an apartment.

dedbus posted...

I feel now in an anti consumer climate that you might get something meager like an Arby's coupon if you complain enough.

I don't get what the hell you are talking about. Anti-consumer culture? Pretty sure it's a consumer culture. On top of that, I don't think there is anything legally binding anyone to disclose deaths or give anyone any sort of payout for renting a place someone died in. That would be insane if they did. Can you imagine them being legally stopped from renting out senior apartments? They'd have to bulldoze the building every time all the residents died off and build a new one.

But what about ghosts?

I had neighbor that was a serial killer that had bodies all over the house.

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The house got flipped four times before a family stayed in it.
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One of the houses I looked at when I was buying was vacant because the previous owner committed suicide in it.

That wasn't a dealbreaker, but it wasn't a very nice house anyways so I passed on it.
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at my friends house in the basement I'd hear footsteps all night
and sometimes the whispers of dead native americans
it was hella strange
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Firewood18 posted...

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Is it stupid of me to not want to get A Link to the Past because Link has pink hair?
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RoboXgp89 posted...

the whispers of dead native americans

How the fuck do you know they were dead native Americans? Do you happen to speak any of the few thousands languages that covers?

It was distinctly native american there was chanting, and some sort of alien tongue
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RoboXgp89 posted...

It was distinctly native american there was chanting, and some sort of alien tongue

How do you know it was Native American, specifically, and why does chanting confirm that for you?

Mr Hangman posted...

The seller/landlord obviously will not advertise that. You'd have to research homicides, filter the ones that happened in homes, filter the homes that are up for sale, and then bring that up during negotiations and hope that persuades the seller to go lower. They might not budge on that, I wouldn't unless you could show the homicide was related to it somehow being a dangerous area and not just the individual circumstances of the victim/perpetrator.

In some states, they have to tell you if someone died on the property if you ask the seller/lesser.
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Someone getting murdered means it's a bad neighborhood
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

Someone getting murdered means it's a bad neighborhood

Unless it was a child molester or something. Then it's the best neighbourhood!
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dedbus posted...

Is that a thing anymore? I can understand back in the day where the stigma is really negative for it but I feel now in an anti consumer climate that you might get something meager like an Arby's coupon if you complain enough.

There are some people who are still uncomfortable with living in places where people died. In fact, a lot of people are. However, it's somewhat offset by the number of people willing to live there because it's cheaper.
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lihlih posted...

Mr Hangman posted...

The seller/landlord obviously will not advertise that. You'd have to research homicides, filter the ones that happened in homes, filter the homes that are up for sale, and then bring that up during negotiations and hope that persuades the seller to go lower. They might not budge on that, I wouldn't unless you could show the homicide was related to it somehow being a dangerous area and not just the individual circumstances of the victim/perpetrator.

In some states, they have to tell you if someone died on the property if you ask the seller/lesser.

I've wondered about this. I knew an elderly couple that was brutally murdered by their son and his boyfriend for money. Apparently they weren't dying from old age fast enough. They had built a modest home after saving up for it.

The house has changed hands many times since. I just wonder if each new owner is told the original owners story.

I also know of a new house that is built on top of an old graveyard. They had to have removed the tombstones to build. I wonder at what point this becomes allowable?