Would you buy/rent a house that had a dead body in it? (renting, expensive)

[Harpaint]

We found a dead ant in the house we just bought.

[davebarnes]

Originally Posted by Harpaint

We found a dead ant in the house we just bought.

Ant or aunt?

[galaxyhi]

Originally Posted by Redraven

I wondered the same thing. I don't feel a bit silly.
However, I do wonder why people seem to feel it necessary to come up with their own silly abbreviations, then don't understand why somebody asks "What does that mean?"

I DIDN'T 'just come up with it".

I learned it from the acceptable internet abbreviations.

Example:

OH = Other Half {there are 726 other meanings for "OH" on the net.}

MOH= My Other Half {there ARE 2,734 Other meanings for the abbreviations of "MOH", perhaps that is why you are confused?}

See here: I googled it for you, I asked "what does the abreviation "MOH" mean?", and the first definition to come up was "My Other Half":
http://www.internetslang.com/MOH-meaning-definition.asp


I never ran into DH until here on C-D, but quickly assumed correctly it means Dear Husband. [Doesn't apply in my case.]
I notice though, that there is no DW {Dear Wife-{or at least not used here on c-d}. {But what if the husband {of wife} isn't such a "dear", but just an "OH"?}
I will have to look it up to see.

You could have looked it up too.

Have a great weekend.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by reneeh63

Back in the "old days" most people died at home...I'm not superstitious and don't believe in ghosts. I would not want to know anything about it.

You start looking at older houses, say from the 1930s/40s and earlier, you're going to find, as others have said, many where one or another resident has died at one time or another.


We have a lot of houses in this area which date from the 1800s and earlier and which are still in the original families so I'd guess every one of them has had at least one death occur in them.

[JD59]

I know two girls that claim they hear the water running in the upstairs bathroom sometimes in their old house. They told me a old man died in the bath tub.

[blisterpeanuts]

RE agent: ...and this is the master bedroom.
Customer: well, aren't you going to open the door?
RE agent: Uh, no, I can't let you in there.
Customer: why not?
RE agent: Because there's a dead body in there.
Customer: Oh my God!
RE agent: Relax, he's been dead for a while.
Customer: how can you be showing a house with a dead body in it?
RE agent: The family wants to selł as quickly as possible, and the funeral home is just super busy right now
Customer: But--
RE agent: Don't worry, it'll be gone by the time you move in.
Customer: Why are they in such a hurry to sell?
RE agent: Because they've been hearing strange noises.

[marino760]

Originally Posted by thinkalot

Must be too much work to type the rest of the letters.

I agree. When someone starts writing with a bunch of abbreviations that I don't know what they mean, I just skip their entire note. Simple solution. It's not that hard if you know how to type to write an entire word.

[marino760]

People used to be born an die in their homes, not in hospitals. There's nothing odd about it. It's part of life. If the person was murdered there, not that's something else.

[Scooby Snacks]

Not if it had the body in it while I'm living there

[Zymer]

Meh. I've lived in plenty of places where people died, including one that I sent on his way. No issues. There's no such thing as ghosts, that's just plain crazy-talk.