Would you buy a house where a murder/suicide took place?

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OP obviously this would bother you so you should not buy the house. I wouldn't for the same reason. Some would.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the problem. But I'm a logical person.

My reaction as well.

What would be the logical reason to rule it out just because a murder-suicide occurred there?

Because when my kid is eating cheerios I don't want to wonder if he is in the spot where someone blew their head off. When I tuck him in at night I don't want to wonder if it is the room where someone came in and stabbed a child to death or whatever happened.

She sliced the wrist. In the dining room. Probably the formal dining room; which could be easily avoided. What bothers me (about the suicide) is that it wasn't even her house. I don't think she had a connection to the house, so it's safe to buy.

Didn't read the article but now I know why the dining room gave me the heebies. I tried to tell myself it was illogical as it was probably done in the bathroom, but no heebies there

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I lived in an old Victorian in NY where someone had died. It was fine. The cat would freak out from time to time but I never "saw" or "experienced" anything. I did experience cheap rent though! More than happy that the lot of you are superstitious. You have very active imaginations. Let's say for fun that there is such things as ghosts, how many people have died from ghost attacks? Horror movies are fiction.

GO TO THE LIGHT CAROLE ANN!!

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Anonymous wrote:This house:
http://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/3619-Quesada-St-NW-20015/home/9970426/mris-DC8053122

This story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reetika_Vazirani -- though it says CC MD, it was this house in DC.

It's a really cute house, but I can't look past the history.

How'd you even know about the history? Unless you live close by, the rest of the gneral public would have forgotten.

People talk. Realtors, friends who remember the incident, etc.

Well posting it here is a jerk-ish move. You could have asked the question without providing links to the house & to the suicide.

Why? Clearly some people care (and probably would like to know) and some don't and won't be bothered. As a buyer, I would be furious to find this out only after the fact.

+1. I would be so upset to find this out after the fact. I would never buy a house where a murder or suicide took place. I don't believe in ghosts, but it's still bad karma.

So ghosts are not real but Karma?!

[Anonymous]

For all the people saying it doesn't matter this house in silver spring is why it does.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/16/AR2010041604953.html

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Anonymous wrote:It's not rational, but it would just give me the creeps. Some people don't like exposed brick, some people don't like tile. Me, I don't like ghosts of murdered children.

+1 although I think the moms ghost would bother me more

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I live in a 100+ yr old house where the original owner was born and died at a ripe old age. Does not bother me one bit. That house would bother me, murdered her 2 yr old! She also attended the same college as me. No thanks!

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Oh, yeah.

And I'd throw a huge Halloween party every year.

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Anonymous wrote:If the price was right, sure. But not if you don't think you can get over it. I have a friend with a gorgeous house next door to a cemetery. I wouldn't live in that house if you gave it to me. We all have different hang ups.

I would love to live next to a cemetery. It's like a park, with no one in it most of the time.

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Anonymous wrote:If the price was right, sure. But not if you don't think you can get over it. I have a friend with a gorgeous house next door to a cemetery. I wouldn't live in that house if you gave it to me. We all have different hang ups.

I would love to live next to a cemetery. It's like a park, with no one in it most of the time.

I lived in an apartment house next to a cemetery in grad school. Loved it! Far better neighbors than a frat house or a bunch of undergrads.

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Anonymous wrote:If the price was right, sure. But not if you don't think you can get over it. I have a friend with a gorgeous house next door to a cemetery. I wouldn't live in that house if you gave it to me. We all have different hang ups.

I would love to live next to a cemetery. It's like a park, with no one in it most of the time.

I lived in an apartment house next to a cemetery in grad school. Loved it! Far better neighbors than a frat house or a bunch of undergrads.

They're great for quiet picnics.

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Anonymous wrote:This house:
http://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/3619-Quesada-St-NW-20015/home/9970426/mris-DC8053122

This story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reetika_Vazirani -- though it says CC MD, it was this house in DC.

It's a really cute house, but I can't look past the history.

How'd you even know about the history? Unless you live close by, the rest of the gneral public would have forgotten.

People talk. Realtors, friends who remember the incident, etc.

Well posting it here is a jerk-ish move. You could have asked the question without providing links to the house & to the suicide.

Why? Clearly some people care (and probably would like to know) and some don't and won't be bothered. As a buyer, I would be furious to find this out only after the fact.

+1. I would be so upset to find this out after the fact. I would never buy a house where a murder or suicide took place. I don't believe in ghosts, but it's still bad karma.

So ghosts are not real but Karma?!

Absolutely.