I moved a few months ago and while looking at places I was shown an apartment where someone had recently died. The women showing me the unit mentioned that it had been vacant for months and when I asked why she told me the previous tenant had died in it and that they're legally obligated to disclose that fact for a few years. I asked if they were willing to negotiate rent but apparent the complex was owned by a massive company and rents were determined each day by an algorithm, staff didn't get any say in setting rates and there was no negotiation.
I ended up finding a cheaper place at a complex I liked a lot more, but the fact that unit had stayed vacant for so long seemed really odd to me. It seems like I read very frequently that the number of religious people in the US is declining. Are there really so many superstitious people around that a place where someone died is harder to sell or rent? The tenant died of old age too, I guess I can kind of see being weirded out by living where someone was murdered, but people die at home of natural causes all the time, I don't see what the big deal would be.
And honestly I don't totally get being weirded out if someone was murdered. In college I rented a room from a women for about six months and halfway through the lease she confessed that the previous owner of the house murdered his family and committed suicide in it. I didn't really care. I never picked up on any malicious spirits or evil vibes or anything. I felt a little guilty about it but I couldn't help thinking a little less of her after she made it out to be a big deal. She even told me that sometimes she briefly saw blood on the walls, but it'd be gone the next second, and once her young niece felt hands grabbing at her when she was playing in the front yard. Somehow I'm guessing those things wouldn't have happened if she hadn't been told about the murder.
There's probably a ton of superstitious people living in potentially haunted places without knowing it since new owners or tenants only need to be notified for a few years, unless the law was written with the exact number of years it takes an evil spirit to move on.
What are Era's thoughts? Is living in a murder house asking for trouble? Or just a good excuse to try to haggle a bit?
I ended up finding a cheaper place at a complex I liked a lot more, but the fact that unit had stayed vacant for so long seemed really odd to me. It seems like I read very frequently that the number of religious people in the US is declining. Are there really so many superstitious people around that a place where someone died is harder to sell or rent? The tenant died of old age too, I guess I can kind of see being weirded out by living where someone was murdered, but people die at home of natural causes all the time, I don't see what the big deal would be.
And honestly I don't totally get being weirded out if someone was murdered. In college I rented a room from a women for about six months and halfway through the lease she confessed that the previous owner of the house murdered his family and committed suicide in it. I didn't really care. I never picked up on any malicious spirits or evil vibes or anything. I felt a little guilty about it but I couldn't help thinking a little less of her after she made it out to be a big deal. She even told me that sometimes she briefly saw blood on the walls, but it'd be gone the next second, and once her young niece felt hands grabbing at her when she was playing in the front yard. Somehow I'm guessing those things wouldn't have happened if she hadn't been told about the murder.
There's probably a ton of superstitious people living in potentially haunted places without knowing it since new owners or tenants only need to be notified for a few years, unless the law was written with the exact number of years it takes an evil spirit to move on.
What are Era's thoughts? Is living in a murder house asking for trouble? Or just a good excuse to try to haggle a bit?
