Just started house hunting and I really feel this question.
I feel like intellectually I can say that the housing stock in my area is older(for the US anyway) and as a result theres a strong chance somebody died in the house I buy. This whole country is built on native american land which was depopulated with either violence or disease, and gun violence is a plague in this country. Even in nicer “low crime” areas you have murders and shootings and you just have to live with it. Ive bought food at places where someone was shot in the head due to some personal grudge.
If it was a good enough deal in a good enough neighborhood and the ghost story was keeping buyers away then I’m a lucky duck and after a few years the murder will be forgotten and when I inevitably move I’ll sell it for a good profit when(and if) I need to move.
Of course thats my brain. My gut says I dunno. I dont really believe in ghosts, and even if I did I wouldn’t be bothered by like someone dying in their sleep or of old age etc. Still a murder suicide is dark. You know in the dead of the night when it’s still and everybody else is asleep or if I’m alone my mind can get superstitious and uneasy. Likewise it’s weird to live in a place where you can know exactly where something that horrible happened. To have my growing children playing with toys or running around on ground that someone was legit murdered in recently.
So I could be boisterous and say I’d jump on the deal, but I dunno. I might be able to push myself to go through with it(and regret it some nights) or I might decide I dont want a home with that kind of baggage.
Just started house hunting and I really feel this question.
I feel like intellectually I can say that the housing stock in my area is older(for the US anyway) and as a result theres a strong chance somebody died in the house I buy. This whole country is built on native american land which was depopulated with either violence or disease, and gun violence is a plague in this country. Even in nicer “low crime” areas you have murders and shootings and you just have to live with it. Ive bought food at places where someone was shot in the head due to some personal grudge.
If it was a good enough deal in a good enough neighborhood and the ghost story was keeping buyers away then I’m a lucky duck and after a few years the murder will be forgotten and when I inevitably move I’ll sell it for a good profit when(and if) I need to move.
Of course thats my brain. My gut says I dunno. I dont really believe in ghosts, and even if I did I wouldn’t be bothered by like someone dying in their sleep or of old age etc. Still a murder suicide is dark. You know in the dead of the night when it’s still and everybody else is asleep or if I’m alone my mind can get superstitious and uneasy. Likewise it’s weird to live in a place where you can know exactly where something that horrible happened. To have my growing children playing with toys or running around on ground that someone was legit murdered in recently.
So I could be boisterous and say I’d jump on the deal, but I dunno. I might be able to push myself to go through with it(and regret it some nights) or I might decide I dont want a home with that kind of baggage.