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would you rent a house that has had a body in the garden?

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  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 33,981 Forumite
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    edited 21 February 2011 at 10:58PM
    Very funny.

    There's a house near us that had to be re-let after the previous occupier was murdered on the premises. That took a while. :(

    There is another house quite near us that was occupied by someone that had pictures he really should not have had on his computer, now serving at Her Majesty's pleasure. Not selling and really quite cheap. I'm at the point of considering whether we would live there...

    I know about these things because nothing ever really happens here and for some reason my neighbour knows about everything that happens within a 5 miles radius and exactly who was involved. If he doesn't, then my hairdresser does, but I can understand how they get to hear everything.
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  • Doozergirl wrote: »
    Very funny.

    There's a house near us that had to be re-let after the previous occupier was murdered on the premises. That took a while.

    There is another house near us that was occupied by someone that had pictures he really should not have had on his computer, now serving at Her Majesty's pleasure. Not selling and really quite cheap. I'm at the point of considering whether we would live there...

    usually they knock down houses of ill repute

    one question I have asked before, do the killers get compensation when the house gets flattened. Did the Wests get anything for Cromwell Road before it was turned into an alleyway?
  • PasturesNew
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    Somebody hanged themselves in my last house, allegedly. Didn't bother me.
  • chuckley
    chuckley Posts: 4,405 Forumite
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    WOW its cheap up there.
  • LilacPixie
    LilacPixie Posts: 8,052 Forumite
    it wouldn't bother me but then again i used to rent a flat that was a converted church complete with graves in the garden...
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  • Catblue
    Catblue Posts: 872 Forumite
    Anyone old enough to remember the Casa Bevron from Brookside Close? :D

    Now that was class.

  • I clicked on the link and was completely taken in at first thinking that the one with the body in the garden must be the cheapest one :rotfl:

    How green am I? To top it all I live less than 10 miles away :wall:
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  • hcb42
    hcb42 Posts: 5,962 Forumite
    chuckley wrote: »
    WOW its cheap up there.

    you didnt see the 2 bed terrace in Wavetree, with same agency, for £1950 pcm then ;)
  • tyllwyd
    tyllwyd Posts: 5,496 Forumite
    I used to rent a bedsit in a house in london and discovered after about six months that someone had previously been murdered in the downstairs flat, but it was a bit late by then to make a fuss! Anyway, between the Romanians in the next bedsit who used to use up all the hot water after we'd put 50p in the meter, the night security guard with a massive b.o. problem (even after having a bath, it just smelt fresher then) and the lady upstairs who would entertain gentlemen callers during the day, it didn't seem like the worst thing about the place! I moved out after the landlord had the bathroom window nailed permanently open by an inch to prevent mould problems.
  • Must admit, I'm the kind of weirdo who would find that interesting. My nan lived in a house in which two men committed suicide. We used to call it the Death House. Funnily enough, there were some spooky goings on there, as I remember.
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