Would you buy a place a place where someone commit suicide?

Fol20 · 01-07-2017 07:32PM #1

As the title suggest, would you get a place where someone commit suicide?

Is there still a stigma around that or would bar an eye lid renting a place like that?

Fighting Tao · 01-07-2017 07:35PM

There would be a huge number of premises empty in the country if people didn't buy them due to a death in it. Thing of the old Georgian tenement buildings and how many people would have died from various causes in them. People will still live in them.

Sam Kade · 01-07-2017 07:36PM

How do you mean a place? A house, a farm, a shop?

Seth Brundle · 01-07-2017 07:38PM

Why not? They aren't going to need it!

LincolnHawk · 01-07-2017 07:52PM

I would, but it's a fair question. I'd draw the line at Fritzel's old dungeon

Grolschevik · 01-07-2017 08:24PM

LincolnHawk wrote:

I would, but it's a fair question. I'd draw the line at Fritzel's old dungeon

Sure that'd just be a granny flat to some on this forum, with the connecting trapdoor and all and â‚¬14k tax free...

tayto lover · 01-07-2017 08:26PM

LincolnHawk wrote: »

I would, but it's a fair question. I'd draw the line at Fritzel's old dungeon

Or Freddie's place at 25, Cromwell Street, Gloucester.

death1234567 · 01-07-2017 08:29PM

LincolnHawk wrote: »

but it's a fair question

No, it isn't. Anyone who wouldn't live in a place because someone committed suicide there is an irrational idiot.

Alpha_zero · 01-07-2017 08:39PM

death1234567 wrote: »

No, it isn't. Anyone who wouldn't live in a place because someone committed suicide there is an irrational idiot.

Sure thing Death

DesperateDan · 01-07-2017 08:51PM

There are a lot of very superstitious people in this country. I think you'd be surprised at the amount of people that would turn down a house because of this.

LincolnHawk · 01-07-2017 09:08PM

death1234567 wrote: »

LincolnHawk wrote: »

but it's a fair question

No, it isn't. Anyone who wouldn't live in a place because someone committed suicide there is an irrational idiot.

How naive you are. Some of the world's greatest minds are irrational

One_Of_Shanks · 01-07-2017 09:15PM

I think I would. You can look at it as creating new happy memories in the place. In fairness, anyone renting/buying a 2nd hand home could be taking on a place where all sorts of horrible things happened, you just don't know.
Every house is just bricks and mortar.
The people living there turn it into a home. I wouldn't be put off, despite maybe feeling a little odd about it initially.

CeilingFly · 01-07-2017 09:17PM

I'd buy it looking to flip it. Would give me the creeps.

Similarly if a murder was in a house it would affect the value - one in goatstown went for 30% lower than similar houses a few years ago.

CeilingFly · 01-07-2017 09:17PM

I'd buy it looking to flip it. Would give me the creeps.

Similarly if a murder was in a house it would affect the value - one in goatstown went for 30% lower than similar houses a few years ago.

eviltwin · 01-07-2017 09:18PM

Why wouldn't you? Is it considered bad luck or something?

One_Of_Shanks · 01-07-2017 09:20PM

eviltwin wrote: »

Is it considered bad luck or something?

Was fairly bad luck for the person who snuffed it anyway

01-07-2017 09:20PM

LincolnHawk wrote: »

How naive you are. Some of the world's greatest minds are irrational

I agree as I am smart (technically anyway!) and I still would not live somewhere that someone committed suicide in.

eviltwin · 01-07-2017 09:21PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I agree as I am smart (technically anyway!) and I still would not live somewhere that someone committed suicide in.

Why not?

NIMAN · 01-07-2017 09:26PM

I take it some adults believe in ghosts.

01-07-2017 09:26PM

eviltwin wrote: »

Why not?

Just wouldn't as I Would not feel comfortable living somewhere where someone had felt bad about life that they decided to end things. I am a sensitive soul and would be put off by that - it's like when you visit concentration camps or a graveyard and you feel that there is a sadness connected to the place. It is not a rational thing but it is how I feel.

4ensic15 · 01-07-2017 10:19PM

DesperateDan wrote: »

There are a lot of very superstitious people in this country. I think you'd be surprised at the amount of people that would turn down a house because of this.

It is bad luck to be superstitious!

the_syco · 02-07-2017 02:42AM

NIMAN wrote: »

I take it some adults believe in ghosts.

Some of them call said ghosts "angels" or "daemons", depending on how much money their local holy man gets paid...!

Atlantic Dawn · 02-07-2017 02:45AM

If there was blood involved no.

ED E · 02-07-2017 02:45AM

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Was fairly bad luck for the person who snuffed it anyway

Only if they were playing Russian Roulet.

Jesus Wept · 02-07-2017 02:46AM

spirits

Filmer Paradise · 02-07-2017 02:56AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Just wouldn't as I Would not feel comfortable living somewhere where someone had felt bad about life that they decided to end things. I am a sensitive soul and would be put off by that - it's like when you visit concentration camps or a graveyard and you feel that there is a sadness connected to the place. It is not a rational thing but it is how I feel.

Near me there's a place where there was a young couple renting.

Nice house in a nice area & all that, but the house is abandoned & neglected for years.

WHY?

The young couple. Boyfriend stabbed the girlfriend to death in that house.

Would you seriously live in there knowing what happened?

Surreptitious · 02-07-2017 02:57AM

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Near me there's a place where there was a young couple renting.

Nice house in a nice area & all that, but the house is abandoned & neglected for years.

WHY?

The young couple. Boyfriend stabbed the girlfriend to death in that house.

Would you seriously live in there knowing what happened?

I definitely wouldn't. I've seen The Amityville Horror.

stilllooking · 02-07-2017 02:59AM

I'd love to in the hope I'd get it cheaper.

fg1406 · 02-07-2017 08:20AM

2 people died (separately) in the last house I lived in. I couldn't give a ****e what happened in the house. My uncle bought a house in a rural location about 10 years ago where a man killed himself and his wife. It wasn't any cheaper or anything. He just liked the area and the house.

02-07-2017 09:43AM

Wouldn't bother me in the least, don't really understand why it would bother people but the fact it would point to the possibility of getting the house cheaper.

The fact is that any house could have had someone commit suicide in it and unless you are buying in an area you know well the chances are you will never know as these sort of things are never published or anything like that.

Eyes Down Field · 02-07-2017 12:08PM

Wouldn't bother me at all. Death is completely natural. Everything that lives eventually dies. Whether someone dies by the bodies systems shutting down, by the hand of another, or by their own hand. It really makes no difference.

Would you buy a place a place where someone commit suicide?

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