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re: Buying a house? diedinhouse.com
Posted on 5/6/14 at 8:58 am to TigerPanzer
Posted on 5/6/14 at 8:58 am to TigerPanzer
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Me personally, I'm not bothered by that sort of stuff--but how do you explain it to visitors
I wouldn't, since my visitors wouldn't hear any crying from dead ghosts.
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Posted on 5/6/14 at 8:58 am to Y.A. Tittle
The building my condo is in was built in 1860's and I'm almost certain someone has died in it before. In matter of fact it was a functioning brothel until circa 1910. I'm sure a hooker or 2 were murdered in there at some point.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:02 am to ellishughtiger
Anyone familiar with the father who pulled a murder suicide with his son, who was a student at John Curtis? The house in which it happened was for sale awhile back in River Ridge... nice little place off of Little Farms. It was discounted pretty heavily and someone got a nice deal.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:05 am to TigerPanzer
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I'd just rather not be hassled by spirits who came to a grim end in the house I'm living in. In the house next to my parents' home, for example, a young girl committed suicide, and you'll occasionally hear crying coming from the garage where she asphyxiated herself with carbon monoxide. Me personally, I'm not bothered by that sort of stuff--but how do you explain it to visitors or prospective home buyers?
Yea that's pretty creepy
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:12 am to NeverToYield
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my visitors wouldn't hear any crying from dead ghosts.
Your visitors would have to be deader than my suicide girl not to hear her. She's got pretty good pipes for an apparition.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:14 am to TigerPanzer
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She's got pretty good pipes for an apparition.
Why not join in and make it a duet?
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:20 am to TigerPanzer
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I'm not bothered by that sort of stuff--but how do you explain it to visitors or prospective home buyers?
Pretty easily. I'd say "ghosts aren't real".
I couldn't care less if someone died in a home where I live. Like the OP I live in a ~100 year old house, I'm sure someone has died here over the years, I just don't care.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:23 am to Epic Cajun
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I couldn't care less if someone died in a home where I live. Like the OP I live in a ~100 year old house, I'm sure someone has died here over the years, I just don't care.
Right, if the time comes to sell my house, and a prospective buyer comes up and hands me a printout from diedinhouse.com showing someone kicked the bucket there in 1922 and therefore, they think I should cut 20k off the asking price, I'm laughing in their face.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:26 am to SouthOfSouth
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who cares if someone died in a house?
ME my wife and I rented a house that had a murder suicide in it and they also had 5 dogs and 2 cats that died also (over 2 days baking in the heat before they found the bodies). It was weird place.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:28 am to GynoSandberg
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Anyone familiar with the father who pulled a murder suicide with his son, who was a student at John Curtis? The house in which it happened was for sale awhile back in River Ridge... nice little place off of Little Farms. It was discounted pretty heavily and someone got a nice deal.
LINK
It's a sad story.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:30 am to zztop1234
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ME my wife and I rented a house that had a murder suicide in it and they also had 5 dogs and 2 cats that died also (over 2 days baking in the heat before they found the bodies). It was weird place.
If you didn't know about it, I'm sure nothing would have been weird about the place.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:31 am to WigSplitta22
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Why does a murder/suicide matter to you then?
Stupid fricking question is stupid.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:34 am to Michael J Cocks
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Stupid fricking question is stupid.
Why? If you don't believe in ghosts, who cares why/how someone died?
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:35 am to Epic Cajun
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If you didn't know about it, I'm sure nothing would have been weird about the place.
we didn't find out until after we moved in .. about 2 months later.
My 2 Dogs paced back and forth and did things they normally didn't do. My wife and I brushed it off because we just moved. Not sure if it had anything to do with it but when we moved out they were fine.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:36 am to Y.A. Tittle
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Heard an ad for this website this morning. Apparently, for a fee, they will research a prospective property you might want to purchase and alert you if someone died there because, as it claims, it could "dramatically affect the value" of the place.
Is this something a lot of people are really worried about? I have a 120 year old house and never once thought of such a thing until I heard this ad. Given its age, I would suspect SOMEONE has died there at some point, but I really can't see how that's supposed to spook me.
we are pretty sure our house used to be a brothel at one point. I feel confident someone died in it.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:45 am to Epic Cajun
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I'd say "ghosts aren't real".
I imagine a lot of ghosts feel the same way about us. Oh, and Harold Ramis says hello.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:47 am to Y.A. Tittle
Will they also research if the house is built on an old Indian burial ground?
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:47 am to TigerPanzer
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I'd say "ghosts aren't real".
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I imagine a lot of ghosts feel the same way about us
All a ghost has to do is go somewhere on Earth and look at people there. People = confirmed.
Not so easy to get hard, concrete proof that there are actually ghosts.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:50 am to TigerPanzer
It is a law for stupid people written by stupid people. Some people will not live in a house where someone has died. It is mind numbingly stupid, but it is what some folks believe. You have to report if you KNOW that some one has died IN the house. It is not your responsibility to research 120 of the home's history.
Posted on 5/6/14 at 9:51 am to Y.A. Tittle
One of the houses I grew up in had 3 people die in the house. One was a suicide by hanging, 2 others were workers that fell off the roof.
In Texas, it's part of the disclosure process.
In Texas, it's part of the disclosure process.
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