Renters - would you rent a property where the previous occupant had committed suicide?

[MN2025]

We have a portfolio of properties (LL investor) and a property has just come up for sale in our local area. It was a family home and the daughter committed suicide in the house.

The family understandably cannot face going back to live there - and have posted all over social media desperate to find a buyer. They’ve moved out already and renting somewhere else…

I’m thinking about making an offer on the house as I know there is ‘demand’ in the area in the rental market and I think it could rent out quick - but would you live in a place that had such a haunting past? Property was recently renovated so apart from a deep clean nothing will need to be done.
people die in properties of natural causes I get that - but not really that often in these tragic circumstances?

Brilliant idea!!

Then thousands more people can be homeless.

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Going back to the OP's question...

No, it wouldn't stop me renting or buying a property. I'd feel sad for the person who had taken their own life, but it is highly highly highly unlikely to be anything to do with the actual property so from that point of view, it wouldn't bother me.

As it is common knowledge I would prefer to be told upfront, then find out later. I don't really know why I just would. I'd plant a tree or a rose in the garden in their name.

If I was buying the property myself, I would want to make sure that I paid market value for it, it would not feel at all right to get it at a discounted price.

Ah yes, silly me I must in fact be mistaken about my own live experiences in life facing ignorance against my disability... thankfully you, a person that wasn't actually there, are here to tell me I must have just been too stupid to understand what I was being told instead.

That's much more realistic than believing that someone who volunteers for a charity could be doing so to force their ignorant opinion and be a busybody on a power trip over others.

And like that you have magically irradiated ableism from the world because we now understand disabled people aren't justifiably annoyed about people talking down to them and correcting them about their own experience (no one would ever do that right the irony) but in fact they are simply just unable to understand.

its really not your problem what the previous occupier did..if you want to buy...do it

why????..commited suicide or died by suicide..i can't see the difference..my daughter took a massive overdose,,..ive always stated she tried to commit suicide...wheres the lie in that

why ??

Yes, why not?

My friend bought a house where the husband of the previous occupants had taken his own life. Never bothered them and they got a bargain.

The word committed links back to when it was a crime. It’s not a criminal act and the person shouldn’t be made to feel like they’ve done something unlawful.

Weve no need for them

Please stop trying to police people’s language. It’s ridiculous.

I strongly agree with that. Hate 'completed suicide.' It's not a fucking Nintendo game!

Are you fucking serious? You are scolding someone whose daughter tried to kill herself, and implying her choice of language would make her daughter feel bad? Honestly, can you not hear yourself? Do you honestly think that this mum isn't absolutely well placed to know what terms are acceptable for her own family crisis?

They asked a question which I answered.
i wasn’t scolding anyone nor was I implying anything at all, I was just saying why the term is generally not used now.
You need to wind your neck in.

No need for houses that people can rent???

In my utopia, every single person qualifies for government housing and can buy or rent somewhere more expensive if they so choose

The government would forcibly obtain a portion of everyone's portfolio of those who rent out more than one home

It wont happen, but one can put it out there into the universe 🥰🥰🥰

Exactly the same for me and I'm so sorry for your loss. I couldn't live somewhere like that.

I also know an acquaintance (from school and was still a close friend of my close friend) who died by suicide in her family home as well. Makes me think of both families affected and feel so deeply for them both, it's just awful

@ThreeNewWords

Well said, and sincere condolences.

Do you honestly believe the rest of society takes language so literally?

No

FGS I only answered their question. Go back through the thread and find everyone else that has referred to the change of language and ask them too.
Language evolves, some of us are aware because of what we’ve experienced, others obviously aren’t.

OTT.

I wouldn't particularly want to live in this house either, but most folks would not care. Suicide is a fact of life, and does not mean a home has to be turned into rubble.

One of my homes I discovered a previous occupant had fallen down the stairs and broken her neck (many many years earlier). Glad I found that out after I bought it as I loved that house so much, and it might have put me off.

Poor family. I hope they manage to sell it and no one shafts them on the price. This does not affect its value.

People die in houses all the time

old age - falling down stairs - heart attack /stroke - and yes suicide

the dead can’t hurt you

I do have a friend who won’t stay at mine due to dh committing suicide (and yes I say commit ) it’s an act. They did it. Thats the meaning of the word

and as I have been in this awful position of the love of your life killing theirselves and my whole world collapsing and heart shattered into a million pieces -

i think I have the right to call what he did what I like with out anyone judging

But as I explained, no it doesn't. Committed does not now nor ever has meant 'crime'.

Committed in this sense literally means 'to have done something'.

You are seeming confusing the word that has multiple meanings with the legal term to 'be committed' into jail (meaning locked up against your will) but a dead person cannot and is not committed into jail, that is not what it has ever meant. It historically being a crime is nothing to do with the phrase that means 'do the action of suicide'.

you can 'commit a faux par', you can 'commit to doing a task', you can 'commit to your husband', you can be 'committed to hospital', you can 'commit to an idea', you can be 'committed to the local sports team', you can 'commit to helping a friend move'. Its nothing to do with a criminal act, when people say someone 'committed' a crime the word committed does not mean 'crime' it means 'they did an action' the action they did being described as criminal only by the use of the word 'crime' in the sentence.

I’ll tell you what, you use committed and I won’t.