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I’m curious about how most people feel about this.
My friends are moving south, due to a job change. The house they are thinking of buying, as is, is a newer house in foreclosure, after the husband tried to kill his wife by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire. The pictures show the charred bathroom. It’s an image you can’t unsee, even though the buyers will be repairing any damages before they move in.
So far, our friends attitude is that it’s too bad it happened, but they will save a lot of money, and they don’t think it will bother them to live there. I feel like I would lie in bed every night and remember what happened to a young woman in the bathroom a few feet away.
Oh my gosh. All the ways a person can kill or try to kill someone, but that is one of the very worst. The stuff of nightmares!
That being said, if the damage was totally repaired - including the odor - before I moved in, I could deal with it without it bothering me. I wouldn't want to do the actual repairs though. Also, if she had died, I think I might feel differently.
I’m curious about how most people feel about this.
My friends are moving south, due to a job change. The house they are thinking of buying, as is, is a newer house in foreclosure, after the husband tried to kill his wife by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire. The pictures show the charred bathroom. It’s an image you can’t unsee, even though the buyers will be repairing any damages before they move in.
So far, our friends attitude is that it’s too bad it happened, but they will save a lot of money, and they don’t think it will bother them to live there. I feel like I would lie in bed every night and remember what happened to a young woman in the bathroom a few feet away.
If the price was right, and the damage repairable, I'd buy it. No question.
"In foreclosure"... Does the bank own it outright, or would part of the proceeds from the sale go towards helping the woman, both financially and being shed of the past?
Is the man still alive? Is there a possibility he could ever be released? That's the detail that would worry me. Sometimes people who are seriously unhinged enough to do something like that come back to the scene of a crime.
"In foreclosure"... Does the bank own it outright, or would part of the proceeds from the sale go towards helping the woman, both financially and being shed of the past?
No idea. All I know is hubby is in the slammer and the wife was recovering in a burn hospital, so I presume nobody has paid the mortgage since September.
Is the man still alive? Is there a possibility he could ever be released? That's the detail that would worry me. Sometimes people who are seriously unhinged enough to do something like that come back to the scene of a crime.
One of many reasons not to buy it. I believe the trial hasn’t happened yet, but he didn’t get bail.
I’m curious about how most people feel about this.
My friends are moving south, due to a job change. The house they are thinking of buying, as is, is a newer house in foreclosure, after the husband tried to kill his wife by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire. The pictures show the charred bathroom. It’s an image you can’t unsee, even though the buyers will be repairing any damages before they move in.
So far, our friends attitude is that it’s too bad it happened, bunt they will save a lot of money, and they don’t think it will bother them to live there. I feel like I would lie in bed every night and remember what happened to a young woman in the bathroom a few feetn away.
I'm with you. I couldn't do it. But some folks are less sensitive and I can believe there are people who could live there and not think about it every minute.
I'd buy it for sure. He didn't succeed in killing her so no worries about ghosts here.
In all seriousness, I'd really have no issue with it.
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