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24-02-2017, 11:00 AM
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Could You Live In A House Where Someone Was Murdered?

I couldn't but then again there may have been murders in very old houses and you'd never know!
I see the apartment where Madeleine McCann was abducted has been sold for half its value as no one wanted to buy it.
So, would you mind buying or living in a house where someone had been murdered or it had tragic history?
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24-02-2017, 11:04 AM
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Re: Could You Live In A House Where Someone Was Murdered?

I don't think it would bother me, this flat was brand new but previous flats have no idea who lived in them before us.
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24-02-2017, 11:09 AM
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Re: Could You Live In A House Where Someone Was Murdered?

No difference to moving in to somewhere that a person had died in naturally.
Fred West incident was a bit different and they demolished the house anyway.
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24-02-2017, 11:14 AM
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Re: Could You Live In A House Where Someone Was Murdered?

I think it would depend on the kind of murder and how gruesome it was but in general it wouldn't bother me.

Similarly an old man died in a local house one hot summer and wasn't found for months, I wouldn't fancy living there.
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24-02-2017, 11:39 AM
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Re: Could You Live In A House Where Someone Was Murdered?

Originally Posted by realspeed ->
No difference to moving in to somewhere that a person had died in naturally.
Fred West incident was a bit different and they demolished the house anyway.
What an opportunity missed.....if a certain brewery had bought it it'd become a Boddi's house.
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24-02-2017, 12:42 PM
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Re: Could You Live In A House Where Someone Was Murdered?

Not at all - a building is just bricks and mortar.
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24-02-2017, 02:35 PM
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Re: Could You Live In A House Where Someone Was Murdered?

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I couldn't but then again there may have been murders in very old houses and you'd never know!
I see the apartment where Madeleine McCann was abducted has been sold for half its value as no one wanted to buy it.
So, would you mind buying or living in a house where someone had been murdered or it had tragic history?
It wouldn't worry me. Our previous property was 1610, it is quite possible someone was murdered there.
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24-02-2017, 02:49 PM
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Re: Could You Live In A House Where Someone Was Murdered?

It might put me off if I knew in advance of purchasing.

A violent and bloody murder for me, might create a very difference ambience to a natural or gentle passing.
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24-02-2017, 02:51 PM
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Re: Could You Live In A House Where Someone Was Murdered?

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It wouldn't worry me. Our previous property was 1610, it is quite possible someone was murdered there.
Was this the house where you had the ghosts?
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24-02-2017, 03:43 PM
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Re: Could You Live In A House Where Someone Was Murdered?

I'd steer clear myself.
Inevitably as a house gets older someone will have died there through natural causes or illness. That's okay.
I wouldn't fancy inheriting a murder scene or a suicide scene.
There'd be too many bad vibes for me. I'd feel uncomfortable imagining how they must have felt in their final moments.

There's a bungalow just down the road from me where there was a double suicide. The husband helped his wife along and they found her in the bath and then he hung himself from a beam. Suicide pact due to debt.
Every two or three years that bungalow goes back up for sale.
Oddly.. the house next door had a suicide too. A chap hung himself in the woods across the road as he thought he had cancer.
Must be the area.
 
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