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I have read that too but just could not live there. I suppose we don't know what we would do in such circumstances and hopefully we never will find out.

I feel the same Marg. It would be the sadness associated with the room involved that would be too much for me. I don't know how that family can stay in that house. I don't think I could do it. I think the idea that some people have that I (or others) are scared of ghosts is too simplistic.

This is how I feel too (with my professional hat on). Of course, it doesn't matter how much of a bargain it was for you if you find it hard to find a tenant or buyer. We have one IP that had such a run of "less than satisfactory" tenants when we first bought it that the neighbours suggested...

I know from when mum was selling houses, that I am not alone in my thinking. I picked 90% but really have no basis for this number. I know my friends feel the same way. There have been stories in the media about problems where houses have been the site of a murder, and the problems the landlords...

People certainly do "tag" houses. I have seen it and know of houses that are so "tagged" for many years. I just think a murder house and a house that may have had termites or been flooded are so far apart that they should not be compared. Happy that others disagree though :).

I remember a local house where someone had "done themselves in". My mother and a few other agents were taken through to give an appraisal. Mum said they were told before entering what had happened in the house, but she was quite bothered for a while afterwards, as nothing had been cleared...

It is a funny thing, because our first house together had the owner die in bed in our bedroom (before we bought the house :). I did get a little creeped out by it, but our neighbour found her and told us about it after we had gotten to know her. The spinster lady who built our house in the 1930s...

I think the two things are not related at all.