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Legally disclosing that a house may be haunted

Darat said:
Yep - why ever not? (ETA - I would however probably paint over the blood splatters and get a nice rug to cover the blood stains in the carpet.)

I have heard it said that in the UK if your house is a 100 years old then it is almost certain you are sleeping in a room that someone has died in.
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Sure.

M.
 
Not sure what the deal is with a house where someone died - my grandfather died in my childhood house (OK - not violently) and I felt no repulsion. Replaced the carpet, hired painters to patch the walls and repaint, redecorated and bada-bing - who knows what goes on.

You buy an older house - people LIVED there. That means they may have DIED there. Whether someone shagged in your kitchen, picked their nose in your bedroom, peed in your shower or met a violent end in your living room - if you make it your HOME does it make a difference?

Didn't anyone watch Six Feet Under?

The bank was a fool in this case imho. Knowing that people may have a certain aversion to buying a 'distressed' property, why they didn't spend a couple of grand to clean up the mess to make it look the list bit 'ok' boggles the mind. I never would have specifically inquired 'was there a crime scene in this unit' if it wasn't for the fact the place wasn't even CLEANED UP... And if I hadn't asked, no one would've told. Kinda like the army.
 
Moochie said:
All very funny. But would you live in a place where horrible crimes had happened -- crimes that you knew about?

M.
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i lived in the same house my parents had sex in for years. talk about shivers up the spine!
 
a_unique_person said:
There was a case here where a son had murdered his family for the inheritance. (He went down to the Porsche dealer the next day to line one up). After the house was sold, the buyers found out about the story and wanted their money back. IIRC, they got it, the Agent should have told them there had been a triple murder there, apparently.
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IIRC that house was something of a tourist attraction and could be hard to on-sell. To that extent it would be reasonable to expect disclosure.

I thought for a moment about buying the house when it came back on the market, but the house was still way too expensive.
 
Moochie said:
All very funny. But would you live in a place where horrible crimes had happened -- crimes that you knew about?

M.
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I know some people who would pay extra to live in place like that. :eek:

Personally, I don't give a crap if someone got killed in there. What the hell difference does it make to me today?
 
JLam said:
I know some people who would pay extra to live in place like that. :eek:

Personally, I don't give a crap if someone got killed in there. What the hell difference does it make to me today?
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You could charge people and give them tours. Have some fans strategically placed to make the hairs on the backs of their necks have some fun too.

Hey, have you heard anything about the house you bought? I'll get started on some pamphlets for you to hand out...
 
So, my house was recently appraised at $97,000. I can put it on the market for say, $150,000 and disclose that the house is haunted. The buyers balk at this so I relent and sell it for $110,000. And, because they were so concerned about the disclosure of the haunting and so happy that they screwed me based on the fact that the house is haunted that they overlooked the disclosure about the sewers backing up on a regular basis so they can't come back and sue me the next time they run the dishwasher and shower at the same time and the basement floods because it was disclosed and they still bought it. Neat.
 
Not worried about death -- some are very nice.

Wouldn't want to live in a house in which people met a violent end, though.

Too much baggage.

M.
 
Moochie said:
Not worried about death -- some are very nice.

Wouldn't want to live in a house in which people met a violent end, though.

Too much baggage.
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What baggage? Is it just that you'd find yourself thinking about it too much? Because I could understand that, for sure. It'd kinda bother me just because I couldn't ever quite forget about it.
 
I disagree with my husband on this because I would definitely not like to live where someone was killed. (Moochie - I agree!) It just gives me the creeps. Not in a freaky weird kinda way, but I feel like it would always be in the back of my mind. Sort of along the same lines of scary movies. I know they're obviously not true, but they still creep me out.
 
JLam said:
The sellers had to declare, under penalty of perjury, that the house was not haunted, and we had to acknowledge it with our initials. I. S:Dit. You. Not.
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I would not be keen to sign a declaration, under penalty of perjury, that the house is not haunted. It might be - how can it be legally verified that it is or isn't? Call in the ghost hunters and have them provide duely official documentation, all legal and traceable?
 
1) Vote for the County Assessor who believes in ghosts. 2) Pay a psychic to detect ghosts in your home, reducing the property value, meaning that you get to pay lower land taxes. 3) When you're ready to sell the house, hire an exorcist to do his thing and to declare the house clean and free of all ghosts.
 
Scott Haley said:
1) Vote for the County Assessor who believes in ghosts. 2) Pay a psychic to detect ghosts in your home, reducing the property value, meaning that you get to pay lower land taxes. 3) When you're ready to sell the house, hire an exorcist to do his thing and to declare the house clean and free of all ghosts.
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:D
Thus providing official validation of ghost hunters, psychics and exorcists...
 
Mrs.JLam said:
I disagree with my husband on this because I would definitely not like to live where someone was killed. (Moochie - I agree!) It just gives me the creeps. Not in a freaky weird kinda way, but I feel like it would always be in the back of my mind. Sort of along the same lines of scary movies. I know they're obviously not true, but they still creep me out.
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Just out of curiosity, how do you feel about using hospital beds?
 
brettDbass said:
Just out of curiosity, how do you feel about using hospital beds?
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Ew....you're right. Maybe as I'm giving birth to our first child I can curse Jlam for knocking me up AND for making me lay in a bed where someone probably died. :)
 
But many people would have died of natural causes in hospitals. Also many people would die of their wounds in hospital after being attacked (depending on the local murder rate).

On the other hand, to reassure Mrs.Jlam, not many of them would have died in the beds and wards used by women who have just given birth.
 
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