TW: mentions suicide. I regret moving here

[TheButteredBiscuit]

I moved in in August. whet I accepted the council house I wasnt told someone had attempted suicide in it. I could smell something but wasn’t sure what it was. I thought I could get the smell away and it did eventually leave. My neighbours told me the other week that the man living here before me set themselves alight after pouring gasoline on themselves, and attempted suicide lots of other times. They were also a drug user and a lot of trouble, antisocial, threatening. Described as a nightmare. When I moved here I spent time decorating it and making it nice and I was glad to finally have somewhere to live with a garden. Now that I know this though I feel very uncomfortable about where I live, and am worried it. Might spell trouble for me. Can I have some reassurance? TIA

You're being daft. You've no connection to the previous resident. Your neighbors like you, you have a nice home and can make a good life. That's all that matters. You'd not have even known if nobody had told you and you weren't feeling weird about the place before you knew so nothing has changed on a practical level. You've just heard a nasty story and it's given you the willies, that's all.

Why would it spell trouble for you?

Why would it cause trouble for you??

Do you realise how many people die in houses? ALOT

The former tenant has nothing whatsoever to do with you. The only one making this a problem is you.

Try to be realistic. It's a house and didn't 'cause' anything. The troubles he had was directly related to his drug use, not the house. If you are really worried that there is a bad feeling in the place, you could always sage it and see if that helps you.

Just adapt the house to your likes and needs. Anything could have happened in any house unless you are in a new build.

Just envisage yourself as giving your house a new lease of life & love. Our house was someone's family home until it all got messy and ended up in divorce. It was a wreck when we bought it. It's now a family home. But there are wierd quirks that are what they had put in!

Eh, what trouble to you envisage it causing you?
Wouldn't you be in more trouble if you were homeless? Or paying extortionate rent to a private landlord?
My house is 120 years old, I imagine plenty of people died here, some of them in not very nice circumstances (lots of illnesses we treat now were left to run their course years ago!) but it has been an amazing family home and feels comforting when I come back to it.
Most people are fortunate never to find out what happened in their house before they live in it, you know but it will have absolutely no bearing on your future there unless you let it🤷‍♀️

My husband took his own life in my previous house. I went on living there for a long time but I get that it's unsettling to be told these stories about the place you live. I certainly didn't tell the people who bought it what happened.

Slightly left field but do you know somebody with a faith who would come and bless the house? It might help you reconcile with it. It wasn't the house's fault. I have a friend who has pagan connections and I bet they would have a ritual of some kind that would help. Years ago my local vicar blessed the house we moved in to. I'm an atheist these days bit rituals matter all the same.

Can you have the house cleansed, in a spiritual sense?

Don't look at it like that, it's a house and it is what you make of it.

There's no such thing as bad luck, only what you make for yourself. The man didn't set himself on fire because of the house, he set himself on fire cause he was troubled and unwell.

Make the house your own and enjoy it!

I bet your new neighbours are very happy to have you there so I would put it to the back of my mind and enjoy your new home.

I get where you are coming from, maybe unsavoury people turning up looking for the previous resident?
You haven't made mention of that happening so obviously it hasn't.
Your neighbours are happy they have a decent tenant now so just enjoy your new home and don't worry about its past history

I am sorry you feel like this OP. but on the bright side, you are making your neighbours' lives a great deal better. Our house is getting on for 200 years old. Lord knows how many people have died in it or in what circumstances, but it's now OUR home and we are happy in it.

If it would make you feel better, maybe you could buy a sage stick, smudge the space, ask all negative entities to leave, return to the light and invite positive energy into your space.