Would you buy real estate having a bad/terrible/horrifying history????

[Braznor]

So would you consider buying a house with a bad history. For instance, that house could have been once a crime scene involving multiple murders and so on.

Or would it not matter for you??? Would you change your mind if the house is cheaper than others in the area???

I wouldn't go beyond a certain extent myself.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

I couldn't care less about what's happened at the house before; unless it has had a pronounced or detrimental effect on the physical shape of the property. I guess the only history that would make me wary, would be if the house used to be a crack house or drug dealer's house, because I wouldn't want druggies coming up thinking their supplier was still around. But it wouldn't bother me if people were killed there in an isolated incident or whatever. Those things just don't matter to me.

 

[djplayx714]

there's this house that was recently built in garden grove, ca that is still unsold. the house that used to sit on the land (corner of hazard and euclid for you locals) was the scene of a gruesome murder where a woman killed her 5 children. the house was abandoned after the city gave the house to a church so that it may be exorcised but they failed.

the developer of the property ran into all sorts of trouble building the house and one of the day laborers actually fell to his death building it. so to answer your question i would say no.

 

[judasmachine]

I'd charge the sicko sight seers money to see the room where said heinous act was performed.

 

[dakels]

I personally wouldn't care too much unless like giantpinkbunnyhead said it was something that directly affected the house, like damage. If given a choice though of a murder house or non murder house, the choice would be clear though.

One weird thing I have to say though is that every house I know of with some strange spritual thing like built on a graveyard or violent death in the home has had a history of strange occurances. I dont mean things I saw on TV or read somewhere. I mean people I know such as "spooky" occurances in homes with violent deaths. Constant problems in a home that was built on a revolutionary war cemetary, etc. I dont believe in ghosts or anything "out of this world" but I can't deny the very strange circumstances involving those homes and people. Even things that happened to me in those homes.

So I guess it wouldnt prevent me from buying that house, but if the same house was somewhere else, I'd buy the house with the good history.

 

[Compton]

I'd love to have a house with a ghost infestation.