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GoIllini

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It's ok guys. Applecruncher has a knack for coming in and dismissing information from similar situations that may be relevant as completely erroneous and a waste of space- and then wasting more posts arguing over it until the second coming.

Tranquility- how do you make the argument that the murder/suicide is material? A lot of it has to come down to what a reasonable person would call material. And if a reasonable person isn't allowed to believe in omens or ghosts, how are you going to say he'd be harmed by this lack of disclosure?
 
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tranquility

Senior Member
I believe I said at least twice:
if the buyer can make the case it was a material fact, it could be a problem for the seller. In this case, I believe the key would be how notorious the death(s) were and how it would affect property value.
What a "reasonable" person believes is irrelevant. What people making offers on similar houses are is. The test is in no way objective, but subjective. This is the very nature of real property pricing. On any disclosure issue which is not directly related to remediation, damages are problematical.

If I try to sell my house and the actual people trying to buy it want a big discount because of a murder/suicide (or, if I can show the market would pay less) and I did not know of it on purchase, it is irrelevant if reasonable people don't believe in ghosts. The *might* just believe in Karma, drug dealers who will come back to kill the people, prions which make you crazy, feng shui or just the icky feeling of being in a place bad things happened.

Real estate attorneys are of the general mind to disclose violent deaths unless protected by statute.
 

Searchertwin

Senior Member
It's ok guys. Applecruncher has a knack for coming in and dismissing information from similar situations that may be relevant as completely erroneous and a waste of space- and then wasting more posts arguing over it until the second coming.

How true, I think he was banned in the LL area for the same things he is doing here. So ignore him.

I agree with Charlotte, when she stated, "He's not. He's giving OP a link to an article about stigmatized housing. He said he tried to find an actual statute, but the only one he could find pertained to meth labs."

He was only trying to help and all he came across only pertained to meth labs.
 

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