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Unless it was a violent death, with an ongoing risk of someone coming back to the house again, I wouldn't care about it. Also, no disclosure of death is required in my state, either for sale or rental of property.
There is/was a nice house a few miles from me that a young couple built. They had a few acres of land and on warm weekends other young people would gather and play volleyball. Something happened, no one knows what but the young wife committed suicide. Took a gun and blew her brains out in the house.
The husband moved out and put the house up for sale. Several years have passed and the house is pitiful now. Weeds so tall they will eventually cover the house, weeds are halfway up the windows now. The gutters have broken loose and hanging down. The real estate company signs are gone, so I guess it's off the market. I don't know if real estate agents have to disclose info such as a suicide in a home but for whatever reason the house has never sold. It was built and occupied only by the young couple and it's sad to watch the house disintegrate.
If someone just died from natural causes, it wouldn't bother me one bit. As someone pointed out, people die. In fact, someone dying at home with family around them is the best way to go, IMO.
Now houses where brutal, infamous crimes have taken place would deter me simply because the reminder of what happened there would be staring me in the face every day.
A natural death wouldn't bother me, but anything that involved murder, suicide, torture, etc. would. I believe events leave traces of energy behind that can affect the present occupants, if they are sensitive to it. This also applies to a home where there was a lot of fighting, arguing, hate, anger or other emotional turmoil. I've found these homes to be what I call "bad luck" homes, where nothing goes right for anyone living in them.
I wouldn't care about a natural death, but I wouldn't want to live in a house where a murder or suicide had occurred.
Every state treats such "tainted property" differently. Here, the person selling (agent or owner) only has to disclose the fact if asked by a prospective buyer. I'd say that pretty much cuts down on that fact getting out, since I don't know anyone who'd even bother to ask.
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My house was built in 1850. In the 1950's it was a nursing home.
I would be surprised if there wasn't a death in my house.
Im pretty sure no one is buried in the back yard though.
The original cemetery for the area is close by.
As long as the corpse has been removed I would be fine with it, if not then I would have a problem with it.
It would make a great conversation piece.
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