Would you live in a house where there had been a murder?

[1988TBT]

Just that really… DP and I looking at buying a second property to rent out. It’s underpriced and chain free… because 18 months ago the husband murdered his wife in one of the bedrooms. It’s put me off a good amount but DP is still keen to go ahead with the sale and says there will be lots of people that won’t want t rent it but it won’t put EVERYONE off. Would it put you off?

I've had a good think about this as I was browsing recently & I saw a property going for a song. If you rent it out you will have to inform your tenants of this. I definitely wouldn't want to live there, but someone will no doubt get off on it.

I would think a lot of us who live in properties over 50 years old have absolutely no idea what might have happened previously or how many people have died in our homes. However, I think if I knew someone had been murdered, I'd get a serious case of the willies. Especially in the middle of the night, but I do have an active imagination and there are probably plenty who won't be bothered/would relish it

Dennis Nilsen’s flat is near us. It turns up on Rightmove every couple of years, always at least £100k under the market rate. No idea whether it ever gets sold.

I personally don't think I could, but then again I am a complete wimp when it comes to anything "ghosty" and bad omens

I wouldn't want to live there.

I wouldn’t - but not because I’d be scared, but because I would be reminded of the dreadful things that happened to those young men, how scared and desperate they must have been, how they probably were crying for their mums...

Reminds me of this story

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/leeds-house-sale-after-owner-19652557.amp

Nope

This thread has reminded me of how some student housemates and I once had to leave our rental mid-academic year (because it had been condemned as unsafe for human habitation! Long story!) and ended up taking over the lease of a beautiful, rundown Georgian house from some medical students who were mysteriously eager to leave. I think after we’d signed but before we’d moved in, one of the medics had a fit of conscience and told me they were leaving because they thought the house was haunted — that when any of them were alone in the house, at a certain point on the stairs they felt a choking, dragging pressure on their throats, which they linked to someone having supposedly hanged themselves there on the stairs in the past. We said ‘Oh’ and moved in anyway.

And had a lovely untroubled period there, with lots of cheer and excellent parties, snd no phantom hangings. People found it amusing that a bunch of hard-headed medics had been spooked, while us arty types (English Lit, two Fine Arts, one drama student) were completely untroubled.

We looked at a (massively reduced, beautiful) house that the, er, atypical EA announced had been repossessed as soon as we walked into it. Put me right off and I couldn’t see past it for the whole viewing. Recent murder?!? Can’t see myself stepping foot over the threshold 😬

I looked up the house of the mother of someone I used to be friendly with , having seen that she'd gone into a home, googled the address and there had been a murder maybe 30 or 40 years before they moved there, it hapened in a room where sometimes people slept if there were visitors, they absolutely didn't know [and I felt no bad vibes in that room either]

Unless I was really into ghost hunts or horror movies I'm not by the way then no it would be off putting.