Post: #1

I was searching for new apartment and came across some places with really cheap rent, like 4~7 time cheaper than the normal price, the room looks like they're in good condition to. I suspect suicides/murders or something has happened in those places for the rent to be that cheap (because Asian beliefs lol). The question is would you live in those places?

Post: #2

Why wouldnt I ?

Post: #3

(01-09-2014 06:40 AM)pants Wrote:  Why wouldnt I ?

The ghost of the murdered person choking you in your sleep?..Good reason for you?

Post: #4

Are landlords/sellers obligated to disclose this information to potential renters/buyers? I would consider it, especially if the price is right, but then again, I ain't afraid of no ghost!

Post: #5

On a time scale long enough, almost every location has seen a murder, suicide, birth, death and so on.

Plus, you don't know that such a thing hasn't happened in the other locations that are at full price - they just might be hiding it better. Maybe that luxury condo was last the home of a rich old pervert that molested children there. You never know.

Post: #6

(01-09-2014 06:49 AM)scotian Wrote:  I ain't afraid of no ghost!

Oh no you dint!

Beyond All Seas

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling

Post: #7

(01-09-2014 06:50 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  Plus, you don't know that such a thing hasn't happened in the other locations that are at full price - they just might be hiding it better.

It's a legal requirement in Japan to report any "human incidents" that have previously occurred within the property. The Japanese may not be religious but they are superstitious as fuck.

Felix, if the place looks good otherwise then go for it!

Post: #8

Fun fact, I've partied with one of the ghostbusters.

Post: #9

Taxafornia has a law requiring you to tell potential new buyers of your house if a murder or death ever occured there.

Post: #10

(01-09-2014 06:40 AM)pants Wrote:  Why wouldnt I ?

Because your mind will invent a reality of it through paranoia. Kind of like if a doctor falsely diagnoses you with AIDS, you will start feeling symptoms because your brain is tricking you into thinking its real.

Post: #11

A woman or a child would be afraid of ghosts.

Are you a woman or a child?

Post: #12

You could make a good documentary. Or horror film even.

Post: #13

Would you date a girl whose fiance' was convicted of murdering his mother for insurance money?


*Yeah, she was an SA girl. Coincidence????

Post: #14

You could use it to get the girl out of your bed/house after the bang.

Post: #15

(01-09-2014 11:48 AM)soup Wrote:  You could use it to get the girl out of your bed/house after the bang.

Yes, an excellent after fuck bedtime story.

Post: #16

Or they're processing heroin upstairs, or the place is not up to code and is considered a storage unit, or it's infested with giant three headed AIDS leeches.

If I had a ghost in my house I'd be hanging out at the goth bar telling every raccoon-eyed whore I could find. They'd all want to come check it out. You could spend every night balls deep in "Death" from the Sandman comics.

Post: #17

This story may sound too strange to be true, and I supposed I can't do much to convince you otherwise, except to give you my word that this shit happened.

My brothers next door neighbor hanged (hung?) himself in the basement of his house. Seeing a cool opportunity to move into a cheap house next door to my brother, I jumped on the opportunity to rent it. I never experienced anything strange in the house, but relocated a few months later for work. When I moved, I was able to get a good friend to take over the lease.

He allowed his daughter and her boyfriend (still teenagers) to live there with him. I guess the daughter and boyfriend got into a big ass argument... and the boy also hung himself in the basement. Thats not the strangest part. According to my friend who lived there, one of the EMS people who responded to the call also responded to the first suicide in the house before I moved in. He said that the kid hung himself from the exact same beam in the ceiling as the other dude. Freaky coincidence.

Post: #18

(01-09-2014 10:32 AM)DJ-Matt Wrote:  Taxafornia has a law requiring you to tell potential new buyers of your house if a murder or death ever occured there.

A guy from the upper floors jumped a few weeks ago. Landed right under my window and by the looks of it was dead pretty much instantly. I wonder what those laws would say about having to disclose that - he didn't actually die in the apartment but it would be pretty hard to claim that there was no suicide there.

I really wish we had laws like that here. That suicide apartment could have ended up with cheap rent and I would have been the first to call them about it...

Post: #19

I am not worried about dead people.

I am worried about live people.

My brother killed himself at home and I sometimes sleep in the room where he did it. It doesn't bother me. I actually feel close to him in that room. His ghost will not harm me.

Post: #20

^^ Sorry Gio.

Post: #21

Someone's been murdered in every house I've ever lived in...

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Post: #23

Even if I didn't believe in hauntings, it would bother me at the psychological level knowing something horrendous happened there.

Post: #24

Well, people often jump into their deaths in front of the trains here and people still take the trains regularly so I don't think it's a big deal, will get that room anyway, the deal is too good. I think I can go on TV while I'm at it.

Post: #25

I dont' have problem with suicide, would ask more about the murders, if the killer had something personal with the victim is not a problem, that person is gone and the killer probability in jail, I don't believe in ghosts, I could very easily live in a cemetery if the house is good and cheap.

In fact I have thinking about starting real state that way, just buying cheap property where someone got murdered or committed suicide, , let time past a months or a year while doing a job on the side, then remodelate and rent.

Besides, people really forget fast about deaths in big cities.