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I would have absolutely no problem with it. Having a problem with it severely decreases the number of available homes, and even then, a brand new home might be built on land where someone died way back when.
jkgourmet, in Texas, the only deaths that HAVE to be disclosed are those that are pertinent to the house, that the house somehow caused (a fall down stairs, for example, that might have had something to do with how the stairs are built, or a death caused by a faulty furnace, the kinds of things where there's a potentially dangerous situation with the house itself). Would you have a problem with that?
No - unless the faulty furnace or staircase has been fixed. Then, whatever the proper required disclosures need to be done on the problem and repair. That a death occurred shouldn't be part of the disclosure unless the risk STILL exists.
My reasoning is this: if someone fell down those steps and became, say, a quadraplegic, that's tragic - but would it have to be disclosed? If not, then why is death a required disclosure? Second part of my reasoning: hasn't the family suffered enough because of the death? Do they need or deserve the additional hardship and financial burden if a now useless disclosure when the problem has been fixed?
I openly admit that I'm pretty extreme in my views. I totally against these disclosures that have nothing to do with the house, including when a suicide has occurred. I consider that an example of discrimination of the mentally ill.
Wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Previous owner had a long, happy life and it ended. It's not like it was a hideous murder-suicide or something. In California it is required to disclose if a death occurred on the property within the last 3 years.
I would buy it and our house had one person that we know of die in it and one die while walking up the street. I'm not sure which one of them walks the hall way and up and down the stairs.
The house is 41 year old and she is the original owner. Thanks everyone, I will try to buy it. It just feel weird but I know it is just part of life. I won't tell my fiance and kid though.
Where I live in winter about half the listings are being sold as a result of someone dying in there (or going to "the home.") I just make sure I plan on replacing the carpet. Old people sometimes pee or poop unexpectedly.
Natural death? Fine. No blood spatter to clean up.
Buy it and replace the carpet. HD has beautiful neutral-looking berber for just $1.17 a square ft and 37 dollars for install. You can't beat that (get the thinner cheaper padding; it's best for berber).
The son is replacing the carpet in tge bedrooms and repainting the entire house so it helps. It will be listed in two weeks.
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Where I live in winter about half the listings are being sold as a result of someone dying in there (or going to "the home.") I just make sure I plan on replacing the carpet. Old people sometimes pee or poop unexpectedly.
Natural death? Fine. No blood spatter to clean up.
Buy it and replace the carpet. HD has beautiful neutral-looking berber for just $1.17 a square ft and 37 dollars for install. You can't beat that (get the thinner cheaper padding; it's best for berber).
Of course. However, I would never buy a house somebody was murdered in. There are people who actually seeks these places out. One serial killer, John Gacy, who was from Chicago and lived in a house on the west side, murdered close to 30 boys/young men and later buried them in the crawl space under his house. The house was torn down, bodies removed, but somebody actually build a house right on top of the grave site.
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