For 50% less than the market price, would you buy a house where a murder-suicide occurred?

Question

Would you tell your spouse? The kids?

Answer 1

if it is in a good neighborhood.

Answer 2

I would most definitely tell my spouse, and I would see no reason to tell the kids. If there are no signs of the events that took place (murder-suicide) then sure, why not live there.

Answer 3

Yes, and I would tell my spouse, but not my kids.  Before moving in, I would also do some remodeling to make the house my own, so it doesn't resemble what it did when the tragidy took place.

Answer 4

Have you been in it? Does it feel all right? Spend some alone time in it and I think the answers will come

Answer 5

If it was in a good neighborhood, I would.   I would let my husband know, but I wouldn't tell the kids unless they were in their mid to late teens.

Answer 6

No, I probably wouldn't, unless it was as an investment and we could sell it later for the full market price. The thought of a murder-suicide occurring in a house I called my home would just creep me out too much. I don't know if I could ever put it out of my mind. I would want my spouse to tell me, though, about anything so significant. I don't like to withhold information from each other that we both have a right to know. Our kids are teens and I would tell them, too.

Answer 7

only if the ghosts weren't there with the house,,

you can always clean it up and maybe forget,, LOL  

Answer 8

Seems a bit fishy to me..but id consider it.

Eauhh. Id probably tell the spouse, but depending on the kids age..probably not.

Answer 9

Oh heck yes!  We would just have it blessed to make sure we weren't moving into the Amityville horror... c'mon.. a bargain is a bargain!

Answer 10

Suicide maybe, but not murder.  

Answer 11

Sure. I don't have any sorts of superstitions or anything that would make me not want it. I'd definitely tell my spouse, and my kids if they were old enough to know about house-buying and reasonable house prices when we bought it (as my brother, sister, and I helped my parents search realtors' websites for houses when they bought their most recent one, so we were well aware of property values and such), or if it ever came up. I'd have no problem living there, as I've known from a young age that there was a murder/suicide in my grandparents' house before they lived there, I remember seeing the police cars for a murder/suicide that occured 2 houses down when I was about 8 or 9, and there's been at least half a dozen suicides at the place where I work in the 20 years since it was built, and as long as I can't see any physical evidence of it I'm perfectly fine with it.  

Answer 12

If all signs of the crime was removed. Yes. I wonder how many houses from the early days had someone murdered, or found dead in them and people are living in them today without knowing. What happened in that house has nothing to do with your family, but if you could get a house for under market value, you bet I would. Tell me where it is, I'll beat you to it. LOL.

Answer 13

Sure, Sure, Sure.