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Would you buy a house if you knew someone had commited suicide in it?

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Yorkshirepudding · 09/10/2007 17:24

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blazingsandals · 09/10/2007 21:46

Oh FFS - I have a GRAVEYARD in my front garden (I only found this out when I started digging and found people). I know several people have died here - but it's a sodding lovely house and honestly, it doesn't matter.

I mean obviously if there is a need to decorate because of stains it might be a bit offputting and I'd get someone in to repaint but otherwise I'd have no qualms.

Having said, I did have a mate who bought a flat very cheaply and later found out the reason the walls were all so nicely newly plastered and the flooring replaced was there was a drug shoot-out in his living room. That was a bit freaky on a 'do you think they'll come back and check they got everyone' basis.

SeaShells · 09/10/2007 21:48

No I couldn't live there. There's something about hangings that really spook me out, I would not be able to sleep knowing that it had happened in my bedroom! It's not the fact that it happened but rather the fact that I'd know and therefore my mind would congure up all sorts of spooky things in the dark in the night shudder

FrannyandZooey · 09/10/2007 21:49

I don't think death itself is a problem as far as houses go. It happens. Misery and violence are another kettle of fish, as far as I am concerned.

Desiderata · 09/10/2007 21:50

I wouldn't.

mustrunmore · 09/10/2007 21:52

I would if it was cheaper. People die all the time; like someone said, there's very little chance that nothing bad has ever happenend where your house is now built. TBH, its only the hygeine aspect that would botherm e in the case of a recent death, but obv they'd have cleaned up properly

Alambil · 09/10/2007 21:53

it's just a house - bricks, walls etc... buy it if the survey is fine

No reason not to buy just cos someone died there - loads of houses have had someone die in at one point or another

Lazarou · 09/10/2007 21:56

I wouldn't. I would be constantly thinking about it and I certainly wouldnt want to sleep in the same room.

Lazarou · 09/10/2007 21:58

Actually saying that, our house is part of a converted nursing home so I bet loads of people died here!
I would say it could be haunted as sometimes the kettle starts boiling and neither me or my husband have put it on.....

bananaknickers · 09/10/2007 22:01

House around the corner from me. Man hacked his wife and three of the children to death and then killed himself. I often see the new people coming out and think I could live there.Often wonder if they got it cheap and how on earth the estate agents handled the sale.

FrannyandZooey · 09/10/2007 22:05

I wish I could get this thread off my threads I am on actually

there are some fearful stories on here and I don't particularly want to hear them all

blazingsandals · 09/10/2007 22:06

Bananaknickers - sadly I think the estate agents would say 'no chain whoopppeee ching ching ching £££££'

justbeme · 09/10/2007 22:26

I found out several years down the line from a neighbour, that in my house a previous owner had shot himself in the head in the living room. No one told us when we were buying the house and I think it would have put me off if Im honest.
It freaked me out for a few weeks, but I sat there one night and "spoke" to him and told him to rest in peace or something like that and that made me feel better about it.

So in answer to your question, It probably would put me off, but if they can get someone to spiritually cleanse the house beforehand and the house is the one they want, then they should go for it!

(and I didnt tell the people I sold the house to in case it put them off!!)

Barcelonababe · 09/10/2007 22:32

I wouldn't buy it if I knew about it!

moondog · 09/10/2007 22:34

No
Unhappy people killing themselves and murder is a totally different ballgame to just drifting off in old age.

I would run and run and run..

MaryBleedinShelley · 09/10/2007 22:34

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Barcelonababe · 09/10/2007 22:34

CappuScreamO - they were your own family... it is different to a stranger!

SSSandy2 · 09/10/2007 22:39

with a suicide, yes possibly I would buy the house. It's about despair and very sad but not about evil (as in murder) and in that case no, I wouldn't buy the house.

I would have the house exorcised and blessed though and I would pray for the person who committed suicide. I think you really have to go with the feeling you get from a place. If it doesn't feel good, you probably shouldn't buy it.

As many have said you often just don't know what has gone on in your house. Ours is old and I feel there is something troubled about one part of one room but other than that (and I did my bit in that corner), I get a great sense of peacefulness and light when I come home after having been in another building.

CappuScreamO · 10/10/2007 09:26

Barcelonababe I have already said on the thread earlier that our old house had a suicide in it

of someone that we didn't know

and we didn't care then either

people have to die somewhere; would you rather they all went outside?

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Yorkshirepudding · 10/10/2007 09:35

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elastamum · 10/10/2007 09:37

My brother has a house with a ghost of a man who died there after living there for 85 years. They didnt find out until after they bought it that he had died and lay undiscovered for some time. They are quite happy having him around although he does make his gf quite cold if he pops into the nursery at night when she is breastfeeding! Apparently he was a lovely man and is now a very ameanable ghost, he is more of a cold presence that moves around upstairs ( I dont really believe in ghosts btw and neither does my brother)

elastamum · 10/10/2007 09:38

Mind you we didnt buy an old nursing home because although I loved the look of the house it gave me the creeps and I never could rationally figure out why.

NomDeBroomstick · 10/10/2007 09:48

Rationally, yes, because in all likelihood you'll get a bargain as lots of other folk will be put off by the macabre history.

In reality, I probably couldn't and I'm not usually freaked out goblins and ghoulies. In fact, I used to live across the road from an old, gothic graveyard.

edam · 10/10/2007 09:49

No, I wouldn't. Different to a natural death in old age. Couldn't buy a house where someone had died violently or had been so desperately unhappy it had driven them to kill themselves.

It may not be rational. But I couldn't do it.

We bought this house because it was the one ds (then four months old) was happiest in when we were looking round! (It was a rational choice in terms of price and location, too.)

I once went househunting with a family friend. She was looking at a lovely big Victorian house, loads of character. Opened a cupboard in one of the attic bedrooms and the atmosphere was just horrible. I'm not kidding when I say the temperature in the room dropped (and no, there wasn't a draft or a big hole in the wall or anything). It was really dramatic and awful. She didn't buy it. Couldn't stand whatever was up with that room and certainly couldn't put one of her children to sleep there.

CappuScreamO · 10/10/2007 09:51

being suicidal isn't a matter of luck or karma

it's not that the house drove them to it

they were just feeling suicidal and that was where they happened to be

it wasn't anything to do with the house and it's not about energy or anything like that

and if houses do have souls (which I think is hogwash personally) they'll be waiting for someone to come and cheer them up

Doodledootoo · 10/10/2007 09:55

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