Buyer refuses to pay for house because of ghosts

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(Translated from a norwegian newspaper)
Sorry if the translation isn't perfect, but you get the picture.:)
I don't know all the english legal language.

Gudbrandsdølen Dagningen

Won't pay for the ghost house
With the purchase of the house came the stories about the ghosts there. Now the sale ends in court.

The house owner accepted the offer and considered the house as sold when it was agreed the date of the takeover last year.

But in the meantime, the buyer heard several stories of unexplained events in the house and refuses to execute the deal.

Now the controversy surrounding the house purchase in a village in Gudbrandsdalen have been taking so long, including in the conciliation counsil, that the residential seller has chosen to sue the buyer for Nord-Gudbrandsdal District Court.

Unique case

Attorney Werner Forr Nystuen in Lillehammer confirms the story to the GD. He represents the seller, and says he left a summary to the court in Christmas.

The case will come up before spring, if not resolved before then, said Forr Nystuen.

Attorney Forr Nystuen see the problem he faces if the court does as in other disputes; go out on inspection.

For what should they look for?

- I do not know if the other party will require an inspection in this case, says Werner Forr Nystuen.

Never experienced similar

Nystuen has been a lawyer for 25 years, and have been prosecuting a number of disputes for the Homeowners' Association in Oppland. Never has he experienced a similar case after a house sale.

- No, it is unique. I've heard people say that they believe in ghosts, but never heard that this has been a disputed issue of trade, he said.

No comment:o
 
Without wishing to pass any comment on the origin or veracity of the Ghostly goings on, I reckon in the UK it would increase the value of the house. We've been suckers for hauntings since, well forever. Dickens and Shakespeare are full of our dearly departed and I believe our Saxon ancestors enjoyed nothing more than a visitation from someone who just wouldn't lie down, even when they hadn't sucked any air for several decades.

It's a selling feature.
 
"What's the harm in letting people believe what they want?"

Watched the Exorcism of Emily Rose tonight with a friend and she... genuenly believed that the girl was possessed by demons and that taken her off her meds and treating her with exorcism (until she passed away from starvation) was the right thing to do. Rather sick and incredible what people will still believe in the Western world in 2012.
 
pristerognathus said:
Without wishing to pass any comment on the origin or veracity of the Ghostly goings on, I reckon in the UK it would increase the value of the house. We've been suckers for hauntings since, well forever. Dickens and Shakespeare are full of our dearly departed and I believe our Saxon ancestors enjoyed nothing more than a visitation from someone who just wouldn't lie down, even when they hadn't sucked any air for several decades.

It's a selling feature.
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I am betting that this is a case of buyer remorse, trying to find any excuse to not be able to fulfill obligation, and a few story about a ghost in the house probably was jumped on as the perfect excuse.
 
You see? This is the kind of stuff that never happens in Brooklyn. Whenever a ghost decides to haunt a house in Brooklyn, he'll have some big dude in a sweatshirt telling him "Are you the one doin' all the friggin' wooo wooo wooo? Well cut it out! No more friggin' woo woo woo in this house, do you understand me?"
 
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