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Just watching some tripe on Dave about house refurbishes - apparently in the us of a it goes on a house's 'record' if a violent crime has taken place there. As, I imagine, would a 'haunting'!
Wy is this important? Why would it reduces house value?
Unless it was due to recurrent gang warfare, I wouldn't mind if someone knocked of someone else in a house I was looking at.
Would you?!
DrP
As long as the blood stains were cleaned up I'd be fine with it. I'd still try for a discount though, as I'm a cheeky git...
Discount - my thoughts exactly!
But it wouldn't put me off!
DrP
I'd want to know if the violence had started due to the now deceased owner having a quiet word regarding the height of the hedge.
bitd - In student halls of residence - there were 2 'random' thickly painted rooms out of 1000s of plain breeze block ones 🙁
Yeah, load of old cobblers, I've just bought a hotel in a quieter corner of the rockies, particulars said native americans somehting or other, not bothereed though. Planning on using the quiet season to write that novel we've all got inside us. Will let you know how it goes
My mate bought the house where this happened. Even more disturbing was that he was really close to the victim 😯
I remember when it all happened, she was in the year above me at school. Bonkers and terribly sad.
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Is this the Flip Men thing from America?
Saw a show a few weeks ago and then turned over near the end of doing up a massive house at the weekend where they made $1M before tax!
The Flander Family bought one, in the Simpson's
The notorious ones are almost always knocked down ?
The Flander Family bought one, in the Simpson's
And you wouldn't believe how hard it was trying to find a .jpg of the scene. I gave up.
Yeah, load of old cobblers, I've just bought a hotel in a quieter corner of the rockies, particulars said native americans somehting or other, not bothereed though. Planning on using the quiet season to write that novel we've all got inside us. Will let you know how it goes
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And you wouldn't believe how hard it was trying to find a .jpg of the scene. I gave up.
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Not just me then 😀
Chose not to buy a relative's place where she'd hanged herself (after closing he sitting room door after she's told her husband she was "just nipping upstairs").
Why? Not because of the death (people die). Because my in laws would have been two houses away.
This is as close as I got...
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Will let you know how it goes
Good luck. Let me know if you need a visitor half way through to check on how things are going.....
I like the flipmen. US wooden houses seem such a dawdle to do up. Almost like stage sets
What worries me more is that drug production which leaves pink markers? On the walls- it poisons the houses. Cant find a link
OH had to return to a house yesterday to dusupervise the last of the clean up before it could be returned to family. It's quite messy when a body has lain for about a year.
What "record" does a house have then?
There's a house just round the corner from me where the owner bludgeoned his wife to death, but it looks just like any other house. I wouldn't have known if my neighbour hadn't told me during one of our chats over the fence.
It's quite messy when a body has lain for about a year.
This reminds me - I went to view a house with my dog (it was dilapidated/needed repairs and the agent was ok), it was like a 1930's timewarp inside, walked into the back living room and there was a square cut of carpet and mdf? nailed in. Bingo was sniffing around the carpet and I asked the agent 'did the owner die here' (yes) - did he die there? (yes). The walls were a yellowed funny looking colour onehundredthidiot- could that have been lifelong smoking in that room or could it have been the body 'dispersing'?
Yeah, load of old cobblers, I've just bought a hotel in a quieter corner of the rockies, particulars said native americans somehting or other, not bothereed though. Planning on using the quiet season to write that novel we've all got inside us. Will let you know how it goes
Too true. I got money off mine because of the Indian burial ground in the back garden. Dog has been acting a bit weird recently though, smells odd. Superstitious fools.
The notorious ones are almost always knocked down ?
Not always, this guys two old houses are still there!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Nilsen
When we were looking a house came up for sale near us so we went over, wasn't really our thing but we did note that it had very good security. The doors had hinge bolts and multiple deadlocks, there was a very detailed intruder system with cameras and trip alarms in the garden and at the windows. The door at the bottom of the stairs was this dead heavy oak think with huge hinges on and a couple of locks.
It was only when a friend of ours got asked to paint it all by the people who did buy it that we found out it was the previous home of a local drug dealer who'd been nabbed.
On another note, a friend used to live in a house in Headingley that had secret viewing rooms, peep holes, wash down wet rooms etc. Turned out it was previously belonged to a lady who specialised in specialist interest adult entertainment...
Bad Dream House”, told by Bart, is about the Simpsons family moving into an old house, wondering why the price for it was so darn cheap. Well, it turns out the place is haunted. Homer, you are an idiot. Blood oozes from its walls and a voice commands the Simpsons to “get out”, borrowing elements from The Amityville Horror (1979), The Poltergeist (1982), with a tip of the hat towards the horror classic The Exorcist (1973) as well.
The pics aren't working for me for some reason.
wouldn't put me off but yeah would haggle the price coz loads of other people would be put off i reckon.
Re dispersing bodies if a house always stunk of air freshener at viewing I'd make sure to tell them to leave off the smelly stuff next time I visited so I could tell what the house actually smelled like, wouldn't want to buy a place that still niffed of eau de compose.
Samuri did you check the underside of the toilet cistern lid for a gun? there's always one taped there in drug dealers houses I heard.
The Muder House you say?
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Although this one is a better idea of what can happen.
There was a house around my area where a wife and kids were killed by the father. They couldn't sell it and it was demolished.
Years ago I viewed a house for sale where the husband had killed the wife/children. It was lovely (Edwardian) inside and out- agent was jumpy/almost excited but it was cheap and not selling/been on the market for a while. I popped up into the converted attic and there was a strong airflow. Funnily it was a summers early evening.
Latter found out about the house.
Why do I always view the cheapest .v. best houses? 8)
I am a fairly straight forward "dont believe in ghosts" etc etc practical person. But there is a house up near us, where a bloke killed two Children and their mum in a completely calculated and premeditated way.
It was up for sale for a long time and we passed it a lot on the bikes.... no way would I even consider buying it knowing what had happened in there.
I'll be honest - I'm unsure either way. Certain things happened in our house which I can put down to coincidence or bad memory (the remote keeps moving itself off the settee onto a shelf in the same spot). Mrshora swears blind she struggles to even find the thing let alone be that organised with it. Thats a recent occurrence. I guess we are being trained to be tidier.
I had roughly the same question about the whole Jimmy Saville lived there, knock it down nonsense. It's just a house. Get over it and stop your daft illogical ways.
I found out the previous owner had died of cancer in my 'bike repair room'.
Things went missing all the time. Could be my messy room.
The room was always cold in summer or with a heater...
My new house is even colder. Dodgy radiator I hope...
My mum refused to buy next doors house after the owner died. Superstitious.
I see mountain bikers...
If I did buy a murder house, I think I'd be leaving the patio where it was.
Drac...well played, I really did look for ages for just that image.