To feel sad feeling after this house viewing?

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Empty for years and still had the items in from the previous owner .. shoes, teddy bears, scrapbooks full of newspaper cuttings. Even an old highchair.

I just got a sad feeling about the place, like something bad happened there.

Aibu? Or has anyone else had a sad/error feeling about a place?

We viewed one earlier on the year that again was just frozen in time, the owner had passed away. All the medical equipment was still in place, pictures, personal effects, etc. Unfortunately also the strong smell of urine. What makes me most sad is that there wasn't a family member who cared enough to go and sort it out. All got shoved in a skip in the end I guess.

Sherbert Makes me feel a bit better that me and DP decided to take charge of my aunt’s flat when she had to go into care (we lived nearby, him retired, me on mat leave, so no huge hardship).

I’d been talking to my mum on the phone and she’d pretty much said “Btw Anne’ [her SiL] had to go into care...” and it turned out she, DF and DB had already gone up there to retrieve any stuff they wanted .

DF’s suggestion was that I should do the same then “let the council clear it, it’ their job “. But when we got there, after a couple of hours we decided to see it through ourselves. Tbh part of it was that the smell of urine was huge and it mortified me to imagine strangers thinking of my relative like that .

Sadly, much of my aunt’s stuff is still stacked up in our house, so still not really dealt with...

Our first house was like that, paper still open and half finished cuppa. It was a totally unspoilt Victorian house and too lovely to pass up on. He was a russian Pow (who'd fought for the germans) and hadn't been able to go home. No relatives survived the war and he didn't leave a will so it was all going to go to the Duchy of Cornwall's estate ie Prince Charles. We found a lot of money in the house and spent it all restoring it. It looked beautiful when it was finished even down to the original bok & why tiled path.

There were cupboards full of teasets dating back to 1850, ornaments from all over the world, wedding presents she hadn't even opened after 60 years of marriage. Boxes full of sheet music and a zillion other things that needed a home. No-one wanted any of it. The auctioneer I spoke to said he couldn't sell it and even the charity shops said no to some stuff.
I can't believe they said that-I'd love it and vintage fairs are full of it!

I've never bought an house like any of these myself but the house my parents still live in, when we first bought it was full of the belongings of the elderly lady who had lived there-menus from cruise liners in the 30's, photos etc-I was a kid and kept alot of it but my parents were unsentimental about all of it sadly.

The man had been dead a year! I felt sad that no one had come to empty his house.

It took us nearly a year before we felt able to start emptying my in-law’s house because we had to wait for the probate to be granted. Obviously Fil had left the house to his sons but they wanted to wait until it was official. God knows why. Just wasted nearly a year when we could have had it emptied already. Then we had to rush and empty it because someone wanted to buy it.

OP, if you've been put off then so have other viewers. To me, that would smell like a potential bargain. I know, I'm a callous bitch!

On the cold hard reality side, it's been owned by a builder for 10 years. So if he's given up on it then probably not a great investment.

On the emotional side, it just had a sad and horrible feeling to it. Like something bad happened in there. People had clearly been squatting in it at one time as well, sleeping bags and sheets everywhere, the side entrance door kicked in, smashed windows.

It didn't feel like a home like that loved and the person it belonged to died of old age.

I have recently bought a property and viewed many where the previous owners have died or gone into a home. Certain sought after areas are so hard to find property I had read the deaths sections to find out if anything new is coming to the market. My experience is that the executor's have cleared the house on the guidance of the estate agents. I have the attitude that death comes to us all and you can't allow such a thing to put you off an otherwise decent property. I was more interested in places that needed some work to add value. what you might see as a sad house a developer might see as an opportunity to get a cheap deal. There is probably no family around if the house has not been cleared but I like to think the previous owner would be happy if the house was full of life again. What I did think was sad was the recent to show on Lady Lucan who lived in a Mews house in London in a state of disrepair and as soon as she passed away her family who hadn't contacted her throughout her life were inside getting it ready for sale or rent.

We lived in a rented house years ago with kids uniforms still hung in wardrobes etc,even down to the car still parked in the garden,they had emigrated to America and left everything behind

In my younger days (and occasionally now sometimes) I used to do a lot of urbex'ing as a hobby and quite often came across abandoned properties that had been empty for 10+ years with everything left behind.
The one that affected me most though was fairly recently, a nursing home that had shut a few years ago, it was empty apart from the big items of furniture and the kitchen stuff but just as we were about to leave we found an old store cupboard full of boxes of what seemed to be individual people's personal possessions that had been stored when they died but nobody ever came to collect.

We once visited an old detached house, boarded up but the back door was ajar, I don't spook easily but there was just a really sad, sickening and oppressive feeling about this place to the point I felt physically sick and we abandoned the explore half way though, a little research after showed it to be an ex children's home, a few months later it hit the media that it had been embroiled in a massive child abuse scandal and the police were digging up the garden.
As a disclaimer..... I've always adhered to the urbex code of take nothing but pictures and leave nothing but footprints and would never enter a property that appeared to be in any way occupied or used or possibly in probate etc.