Would it bother you if...

[Diane]

you were looking for a new home and found out that someone had been murdered in the one you liked the best... would you still consider buying it?

One of my friends cousin's is moving and has been looking at houses, with no luck... until they found this one. Then the realtor revealed that a few years ago a couple had been murdered (shot to death) there. Now, they're having second thoughts...

What would you do? Would you ever consider buying a house where such an awful crime was committed? Not too sure if I could.

[RCT]

I think it might....

I certainly would have questions and concerns.

Was this a random act or did they know their killers?

Would they come back and do it again?

Yikes.....good question Diane...

Let us know what they decided.

[vea29]

I totally would...

I don't think I'd feel safe. And if it was like a murder/ suicide I'd probably be freaked out. But then again I'm a wimp...lol.

[angie r]

I wouldn't want to live there. It would just freak me out, lol.

As a Realtor you don't have to disclose that a suicide/murder/criminal act happened in a home unless you are asked.

[PamE]

Huh. I must be weirder than I thought. I don't think it would bother me.

[DavidL]

It wouldn't bother me. If anything, I'd use it as an excuse to pay less for the house!

"What? Someone was killed here?! That gives me bad vibes, perhaps if you knocked $20k off the price, my vibes wouldn't be so bad."

[littlesista06]

LOL
Good thinkin' Lincoln!

[Melody]

Hmmm, depends on how much I liked the house and if I really really wanted it in the first place. Like David, I would first think of paying less for it. LOL I would want to know if this was an attack on the people from someone they knew or if this was random. If it was a drive by I would leave and never look back!

[Diane]

In this case the husband/wife had recently been divorced. Mom moved on with her life and got another boyfriend. X dh didn't like that, so one night he burst into their bedroom and shot them both dead. :(

I think there is a full disclosure law in Minnesota, when it comes to a home’s morbid past. I don't think that if someone died of natural causes, you have to. The realtor who sold my mom's house after my dad passed away in it never told the buyer. She said it was because he died of natural causes that they didn't have to. I think I'd still want to know though.

[Beth/TX]

Ugh....yes it would bother me!

[Melody]

I think this is the same as buying an old victorian home that has been around for many years. People were born and died in their homes, had funerals in them too. If you were in the hospital would you want to know the history of that room? yikes LOL I wouldn't.

[Diane]

I think this is the same as buying an old victorian home that has been around for many years. People were born and died in their homes, had funerals in them too. If you were in the hospital would you want to know the history of that room? yikes LOL I wouldn't.

I know I wouldn't want to be laying in a bed someone has died in, but I'm sure the chances of that happening in a hospital are pretty good. My dad passed away sitting in his chair, and it kind of creeps me out whenever I forget and accidently sit in it. My mother in-law passed away in their bed, and my FIL thought nothing of sleeping in it that night. I guess when you love the one who's passed, it maybe doesn't bother you as much.

If someone's passed away in our house, I don't want to know about it.