Thread a idea, thanks:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/laworder/story/C6B66A2B396F73588625771700816ADB?OpenDocument

5/4/2010 2:10:39 AM

Nah, that's like buying a foreclosed house.

5/4/2010 2:12:50 AM

i don't see why not

5/4/2010 2:16:08 AM

Eh. How violent of a killing was it?

What does that say about the neighborhood?

5/4/2010 2:17:35 AM

not me but that might be for personal reasons

5/4/2010 2:18:07 AM

I think I'd be ok with it, as long as it was haunted by people like Adam and Barbara Maitland and not Beetle Juice types.

5/4/2010 2:20:04 AM

that would actually kind of intrigue me in a sick, evil way

and the people in the amityville house now haven't had any complaints

[Edited on May 4, 2010 at 2:25 AM. Reason : k]

5/4/2010 2:25:31 AM

5/4/2010 2:25:40 AM

in a very odd way i may be attracted to the place on the premise that lightning doesn't strike twice

5/4/2010 2:34:51 AM

^Yea, it just manifests itself as a hostile paranormal force that drives you to the brink of sanity before killing you and everyone you love. But no one gets murdered or anything.

5/4/2010 2:36:44 AM

There's a law in Japan that real estate agents have to disclose if a horrible death (fire, murder, death by neglect, etc) has happened on a property. Then you have the right to have the price cut on the property by a large amount if you request it. But since no one in Japan likes to buy these properties they usually just rot into the ground rather than getting sold.

This also works on hotels btw. If you book a hotel room and find out that a horrible death happened there, you can have as much as 25% of your room charge refunded to you.

5/4/2010 2:57:10 AM

That's because Japan knows what's up.

5/4/2010 2:57:53 AM

A murder wouldn't dissuade me from buying one. If it's a real violent neighborhood and that's why there was a murder there, maybe the neighborhood would dissuade me. But the murder itself? Nah.

5/4/2010 3:35:17 AM

Quote :

"and the people in the amityville house now haven't had any complaints"

thats because the whole story was fabricated (i mean except for the original killings, obviously)

5/4/2010 7:01:44 AM

A ghost house story being fabricated? Color me surprised

5/4/2010 7:02:55 AM