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Someone Died in My House!
The Consumerist blog has a question: Would you buy a house if you knew that someone had committed suicide in it?
Massachusetts law says:
Section 114. The fact or suspicion that real property may be or is psychologically impacted shall not be deemed to be a material fact required to be disclosed in a real estate transaction. “Psychologically impacted” shall mean an impact being the result of facts or suspicions including, but not limited to, the following:(a) that an occupant of real property is now or has been suspected to be infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus or with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or any other disease which reasonable medical evidence suggests to be highly unlikely to be transmitted through the occupying of a dwelling;
(b) that the real property was the site of a felony, suicide or homicide; and
(c) that the real property has been the site of an alleged parapsychological or supernatural phenomenon.
The law clearly takes the side of "it doesn't matter what has happened in this house, as long as the house itself is safe". Sue, on the other hand, insists she wouldn't have bought her home had she known about the suicide that had taken place within it, and feels ripped off.
Is the law fair? Would you have bought the house? What do you think?
Tags: brights, superstition
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Permalink Reply by Jason F Cannon on -
A house is a house a mouse is a mouse.... : )
Being one free from any superstitious belief, I would have no problem living there. -
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Permalink Reply by Gloria Manucia on
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I used to think that having a death in a house would make me feel less comfortable there. My late husband died over two years ago in the master bathroom of our house. I pulled him out, and did CPR to no avail. Since his death I moved into the master bedroom (we'd been in separate rooms because of his prodigious snoring) and now as I lie in bed, I can see into the bathroom where he slid, and the spot where I dragged his body before death was pronounced. I am somewhat surprised at the degree of my comfort. Just as I did not try to communicate with him telepathically before death, I do not do so now.
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Permalink Reply by Liselotte Saxkjær Hausgaard on -
I live in a house that was built in 1926. There is a fair chance that somebody at some point died here.
Anyway, I feel comfortable living here, no matter what. A house is a building. It doesn't have a personality that can be inflicted with evil or damaged by somebody dying there. Utter nonsense.
The law is fine - the lady is being silly. -
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Permalink Reply by Elly Martin on -
I'd buy the house. Superstition is silly. People die. The house is safe.
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