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MSE Blog: Would you live at a murder scene to bag a house price discount?
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Former_MSE_Helen
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Hi all, this is a thread to discuss the MSE blog:
Would you live at a murder scene to bag a house price discount?
"I’ve recently started to look at buying a flat in London, but with the prices, it’s tough. We thought that we might need to consider compromising..."
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Would you live at a murder scene to bag a house price discount?
"I’ve recently started to look at buying a flat in London, but with the prices, it’s tough. We thought that we might need to consider compromising..."
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If the murder seemed 'unusual' (the area looked nice enough, and not the kind of place where it could happen again at any moment), then why not?0
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Most would rent it out until it'd been forgotten about, then flog it.... so it's not like nobody would buy it.0
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No, I wouldn't buy a house where there had been a murder, or where a serial killer had lived. Especially one where he had flushed body parts down the pipes.0
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I'd be a bit concerned that strange people might turn up at the house if they knew its past and because Nilsen is so notorious. Other than that it wouldn't bother me.0
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Yeah, I probably would.
Then again it depends on the nature of the murders, I wouldn't want to live anywhere someone was locked up and tortured, so serial killers are out. Straightforward shootings/stabbings wouldn't bother me quite as much. Should qualify this - I don't mean serial shootings/stabbings...I just mean murders where the motivation wasn't murder in itself.
Also you get those subhuman weirdos who are obsessed with serial killers, wouldn't want people like that turning up wanting a tour or anything.0 -
Why do you think you'd get a discount just because someone had been murdered there?
Once you put aside the fact that they met their end in a more violent way than (say) an OAP, it's just another chain free probate sale...0 -
I don't think I'd want to personally. Before we bought our last-but-one house there were a couple of murders (not sure if it was two or three) in a house just around the corner where the boyfriend of the owners' daughter killed her and one/both of her parents. It was a nice conservation area with some desirable properties and afaik they were a bog-standard middle class family, not that that means anything I guess.
The house was later sold and renovated, then sold again (for the going rate iirc) and after we moved close by we always wondered when walking past if the new owners were aware of (or were bothered by) the house's history. It made me shudder tbh.
Btw, a few years later we sold our house to Sion Jenkins - google him if you don't know his story - after he'd been released from prison :eek: Must be something about that area.........Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
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no, i don't think i would...
i like the house to have a nice vibe, and be a happy place, and just like i wouldn't take the family for a picnic to a grave yard, (even if it was a particulary scenic one), i also wouldn't want to live my everyday life in a place where nasty things had happened.
I have an overactive imagination anyway, and i think my mind would fill in the blanks, in those early hours of the morning when you were lying awake.0 -
Nope-Theres a house on my street that Children were killed in..makes me sad thinking about it so could never live there-or anywhere else someone was killed.She has the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies..0
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MSE Helen obviously needs some proper work to be getting on withNever, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.0
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