Would you buy a house that was a murder scene?

Seriously

30% discount to what you would expect to pay for the same place "untainted". No chalk marks or blood splatters, apparently.

K

how gruesome?

i think i would differentiate between a wife shooting her beating husband (or vice versa) and the slaughter of an entire family by the mafia. just as an example.

but probably no, no matter what, i think.

I think it adds character.

But I am a morbidly sick f***

I would want the whole back story, and details.

If the price is right, the location is good, and the place doesn't need much work then why not..
Your could always charge the locals for a "Murder Tour" and make a bit of money..

I'll bet that quite a few folks living in old apartment buildings in town, particularly those a few hundred+ years old, have a place that was a murder scene and don't even know it.

If the house is solid, well built, no major structural faults, and has a layout I like, then why not? The discount is just a bonus which I can use to decorate a bit more lavishly. I don't see any problem, unless it was particularly gruesome and nobody wants to come visit me. Hmm... though that might even be an added bonus if you're looking for peace and quiet.

Gives a whole new meaning to skeletons in the closet. Adds nicely to a Hallowe'en party atmosphere, too. As long as it is something you can make jokes about. But the places with really horrific murders tend to get torn down anyway or turned into museums, so it can't be that bad, I'd assume.

Can we get the backstory to add to the discussion?

My neighbor killed himself. I got the flat. True story

(though he didn't kill himself in the flat)

While not exactly a murder scene, many people live in buildings previously used as Judenhäuser, the Jewish Houses like these in Leipzig.
Most inhabitants were deported from such houses to concentration camps.

30% off? Wow, there are that many superstitious idiots to make it that much of a discount?

I need to keep an eye on the murders around here, maybe I can find a good deal..

If all else meets the criteria, take it! spend the 30% on a jacuzzi or some such
I once lived in an apartment where the previous tenent had OD-ed on crack. No one told me till I moved in. I kept searching for hidden stash. Never found any, but I did sleep quite peacefully

A friend of mine and her family lived in the apartment where the Jewish athletes were attacked and held hostage in 1972, two of them were shot and died right there. You can still see where a bullet nicked the window ledge. Every now and then, strangers would ring the bell and ask if they could take a walk around the apartment. Cate always let them in and listened to what they had to say. One woman said, with tears in her eyes, "The best thing that has happened since then is that now children play here and fill the rooms with laughter". Cate was ok with the apartment's history, her husband Joe sometimes got the creeps.

Considering how many silent tragedies take place in normal-looking houses (see the kid in Winnenden) the only way to prevent living in a house with a past is to build your own.

My first single apartment in New York was in a nice brownstone off Central Park West.

The real estate agent who found it for me was a late-30-something good-looking woman who it turned out happened to live three flights above me in the same building. I only bumped into her once or twice over the next few years, but one time she was walking in dressed for an evening that, well, let's just say didn't look like she'd just returned home from a cotillion.

Months later, I was awakened at 4:00 in the morning by a huge thump. I lived on the parlour floor, meaning that there was a basement apartment with a step-up ground-level back terrace below me. I looked out and there she was with her head through a pointed wrought iron fence in the back like a watermelon. It turned out that she'd discovered that she'd contracted AIDS through all her late night adventures, and she'd decided to off herself.

This being the mid-1990s, her apartment rented in about five minutes after the police tape went down.

I think about that all. the. time.

I live in a neubau so probably relatively few people have been slaughtered here, but it's a complex full of oldsters so it's not impossible that someone's died here.

Am I the only one who looks at empty lots in Berlin (or wherever you happen to be) and instantly visualizes a bomb crater? When you consider that the population of Berlin was greater at the turn of the century than it is now, you have to wonder what all those gaping holes in the concrete mass are for...

So not to lower the market price of your property it is best to kill your spouse at another location then.
"Accident" on holiday is best especially on a cruise ship maybe.
From what I understand the house in Grünwald of that showbiz faggot with the small dog, that got strangled by
a rental faggot that he hired, sold for a really good price.

I live in a house where an elderly couple lived and raised their family. They died here and the family rented it out, but barely cleaned up their belongings. They wanted us to use their left objects for ourselves to include books and left bathroom supplies. All had been neatly placed on shelving in the basement. I think there was too much memory for the family to deal with and they needed us to rent the place from them to see it is a house, a building, in addition to their memories.