Someone murdered in house

Paully232000

inatdeepend wrote: »

In this case the price being asked isn't any different to similar properties locally. But the EA was a bit vague and evasive as the buyer was "very discreet". Okay if it was a multi-million pound mansion in Mayfair I could understand it, but a few hundred K in the east midlands? Yeah, that didn't arouse suspicions at all...

So not sure if the seller is anything to do with the couple, or maybe someone who got a bargain at the time but doesn't want to flag up someone else finding out now they're selling ... Which clearly hasn't worked if that's the case!

I got from the story in the paper that it was about 100K less than comparables in the local area. Maybe I read the story wrong.

robotrobo

We know in our house that a very old lady died in our bed in this bedroom not to long ago , and my wife , who i thought went to bed at night dressed all in black was in mourning for this old lady , and after a few weeks i did say to her "dont you think you are takeing this mourning a bit to far for this unrelated old lady that died in our bungalow" she replied " its not for her you silly old goat " i said whats it for then ?. And she replied " im in mourning because i go to bed with a dead c0ck".:eek:

SnooksNJ

Only if I could find an inexpensive source for white sage because I would be smudging the house like everyday.

DigForVictory

Well, if it been a family member then I might well a bit ticklish about it. Although as a way of avoiding the big family get-togethers, what a coup...

If it had been something like the West's lovenest, no way. Sorry but far too much publicity & you couldn't get a shovel into the back garden without wondering a bit. And if the mortgage didn't require a full survey & refit, well, it probably ought to.

I'm lucky - I know a family who live in the house where it is speculated a woman was deliberately shoved down the stairs with intent to kill. Back in Tudor times, so nothing recent, just an interesting ponder as to what is truth & history - a sort of mental executive toy - you can push it either way & it wobbles back to not proven.

I do like the glam widow with a reputation for poisoning husbands idea. As a talking point, of course. Says she, who has recently been asking for mouse poison in almost every shop I've gone into. (While the headcount stays the same, I reckon I'll be OK. It's a good pretext for trying to dodge the cooking.)

If I like the house and the area anyway, then it's history may well just be that. History. Although if the pepetrator is still alive, I'm less keen. I like my history Ancient not Modern.

So, as long as the death was at least one generation back and/or the perpetrator has also deceased, I've no real qualms. Due out on licence next month? Nein danke.

Lily-Rose_3

agrinnall wrote: »

As long as the body has been removed and any stains scrubbed clean or permanently covered over then it wouldn't worry me.

dieselpower1988 wrote: »

Depends on the press coverage. If it was quite high profile, and the house was in the news etc. recently that might put me off a little, just because of the unwanted attention really.

The fact that it happened wouldn't bother me too much, and if it knocks some money of the asking price, it would bother me even less!

The question is how much does it bother you personally? If it's something that will be on your mind then perhaps the property isn't for you?

This ^^^

If someone had died in a house it wouldn't bother me, but if someone was murdered in a house, it may make me a little more apprehensive. Not sure if it would be a dealbreaker: I guess it depends on how good the value of house was. If it was 20% below market value, then maybe...

However, as the post directly above says; if it was a high profile case, like the West's house, or 10 Rillington Place, or the cottage where the little girl was murdered near Machynlleth, then definitely no.

molerat

I knew someone who bought a used car car once, the previous owner would not be able to use it for a few years :eek: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3071319.stm

sacha28

I moved out of a house 6 months ago where a lady was murdered by her husband. She was murdered in the March, we moved in in May.

Crime scene had done a very good job in cleaning off the walls and the carpet was beautifully new and bouncy And we got the rent at a reduced rate (£100pcm off what it would've been normally!)

I found it quite amusing when we moved in, there's a school at the end of the road and kids would walk past saying 'mummy, look someone lives in the murder house.'

What I did find weird was the post that came through the door. Not so much for him but for her. There were a few cards, handwritten, obviously from old friends that ended up in the bin as there were no return addresses on them. I found it quite sad that they clearly had no idea of the tragedy that has happened.

When we left my OH said he was relieved as he felt the house had a weird atmosphere. I hadn't noticed, but the 1st week we were there I was woken up by a female screaming. I won't lie, I was freaked right out, until I heard the mum of the 3 year old girl next door saying 'T, calm down it's midnight, you'll wake the new neighbours' :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: That was a good ice breaker!!

patman99

Wouldn't bother me. In fact, if it had been a recent high-profile murder, I would run tours of the house at £2 per-head. Would help pay-off the mortgage quicker.

There was a murder in THIS property back in th 1950's and when it was a nightclub, the artists who performed there used to feel a ghostly presence when getting changed.

I also used to go to school with the then owner's son and he used to say that in certain rooms, stuff mysteriously moved around.

fed_up_and_stressed

Paully232000 wrote: »

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/would-you-live-in-a-house-of-horrors-muswell-hill-flat-where-serial-killing-necrophiliac-dennis-nilsen-butchered-victims-goes-up-for-sale-8763510.html

You might get a bargain, and then when media interest (if there is any) disappears may go back to its natural price

In the case of Sykes v Taylor Rose, the property was still rumoured to contain missing body parts of the deceased child 13 year old Nilanthie Perera .

In 1984, Samson Perera, a dental biologist at Leeds University and then the owner of the house, murdered his adopted daughter, Nilanthie. Poor Mr and Mrs Sykes only realised it when they saw a Channel 5 documentary about the case.

Pthree

I know someone who bought a house where 4 or 5 children had died in a house fire.

They did it up lovely but I never really felt comfortable there, or with the fact they got it for a song, creeps me out a bit.