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Originally posted by tizzy:
DF is a wise man.

And we might question the history of a house we buy, but what about the land? I believe in ghosts and they are, and can be, just as easily attached to land that holds a new home as to a home where a death has taken place.
.....I agree with you. I know this from personal experience. Wink
I think that the only thing you'll want to be concerned about is the resale value of the place. You probably won't live there forever, and many home buyers aren't as open minded about a stigma like that. Living in a house like that wouldn't bother me personally, but it may be difficult to sell some day in the future. People remember stuff like that, and neighbors will happily let your potential buyers know.

My advice as a real estate broker... if you're going to stay there for a long time, then don't worry about it. If you're only going to be there for a couple of years and then sell, then you may want to look somewhere else.
I don't know if this is just a hypothetical question or you are considering such?
Every time I go by the house where Kevin Garner killed hi wife, daughter, sister and nephew I see that someone has moved into that house I think there is no way I could live there. I feel the same way about the house my cousin committed suicide in.
It is not that I fear ghosts which I do believe that a spirit can live on where a violent death occurred. I just cannot feel comfortable making a habitat where blood has been spilled from a dyeing person whose death was purposely caused.
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Originally posted by Just_:
Gus, I understand your feeling. But not ALL spirits (aka ghosts) are bad ones. I know your feelings about this my friend.


The ones that are thought of as bad are usually just confused and can't accept that they're dead. That leads them to do things like trying to run people out of "their" house or prank type things to get attention and be acknowledged.
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Originally posted by unclegus:
I don't know if this is just a hypothetical question or you are considering such?
Every time I go by the house where Kevin Garner killed hi wife, daughter, sister and nephew I see that someone has moved into that house I think there is no way I could live there. I feel the same way about the house my cousin committed suicide in.
It is not that I fear ghosts which I do believe that a spirit can live on where a violent death occurred. I just cannot feel comfortable making a habitat where blood has been spilled from a dyeing person whose death was purposely caused.


Gus, your feelings are very understandable. I know I couldn't live in house where a violent death had taken place if i knew the victims, but for me that has to do with memories and not ghosts.
I often pass a house where 30 years ago a cousin committed the worse kind of suicide and I wonder if the people now living there have any idea what once happened in their living room.
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Originally posted by DeepFat:
Fosha,

Is it Alabama law to disclose such information?


DF


This is all I could find when I did a Google search:

http://www.marahawks.com/defau...custom&menu_id=85497

STIGMATIZED PROPERTY Buyers acknowledge that certain properties may be stigmatized, that is, impacted by certain events which occurred on the property and had no effect on the actual construction materials of the home, but may have left some psychological impact on the property. Some examples are murder, suicide, and ghosts. If these issues are important to your decision to purchase, the burden of discovery falls upon you, the Buyers. Alabama Law does not require a Seller or a Seller's Agent to disclose such stigmas.
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Originally posted by Just Sayin':
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Originally posted by DeepFat:
Fosha,

Is it Alabama law to disclose such information?


DF


This is all I could find when I did a Google search:

http://www.marahawks.com/defau...custom&menu_id=85497

STIGMATIZED PROPERTY Buyers acknowledge that certain properties may be stigmatized, that is, impacted by certain events which occurred on the property and had no effect on the actual construction materials of the home, but may have left some psychological impact on the property. Some examples are murder, suicide, and ghosts. If these issues are important to your decision to purchase, the burden of discovery falls upon you, the Buyers. Alabama Law does not require a Seller or a Seller's Agent to disclose such stigmas.


IMO, good way for it to be handled.
This relates to me as, when you are driving at night and pass a location where a fatal accident has happened. I always get a chill. There is an area below where I was raised that my grandparents have always told stories about the cemetary on the hill. It is said that my great grandfather saw a ghost raise up into the rode as he went through there. He was so scared he forgot he had a pistol in his belt. My great uncle used to tell me that a hant, that is what he called ghosts, would ride with you to the cruve where the old dump used to to be and get out. I had never driven by myself through there until I was adult with kids.
I am not a fanciful person, but I would pass on buying that house. In our old house, where my stepchildren grew up, in one of the bedrooms there was a feeling of--I don't know how to describe it, it just felt bad. Oppressive, dark, closed in...and it was the room with the most natural light. It was my stepdaughter's bedroom--she was more than a handful, and was violent towards me and a few other people. Abusive in speech and physically.

Also, one day while driving through the parking lot where Big Lots is, there was mist along the ground. I will swear that a "piece of mist" traveled through my car, right past me and out the other door. It was not person-shaped--it was nebulous.
We had a suicide at our home a few years ago. The young man walked out the front door slamming it behind him and shot himself in the front yard. We knew about prior to getting the house. On occasion you will hear the front door slam it does not physically open you just hear it and some times at night you will hear walking in the hallway. I just tell him that it is late and to go to sleep like we are and that it usally just it. Of course, the dogs bark fruqently. But if the price is right (ours was) get it.
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Originally posted by DeepFat:
Fosha,

Is it Alabama law to disclose such information?


DF


Sorry I've been absent... Technically, it is DF. From the classes that I've taken in the past, my teachers have told me that you must disclose it. It is pertinent information that a buyer ought to know about the house. You can't withhold information that could affect whether or not the buyer will buy. Even though Alabama is a buyer beware state, you have to disclose things like this, along with any type of safety hazard that otherwise isn't blatantly obvious.

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