House with a sordid history

[Saitou]

Would you live in a house with a possibly sordid, somehow wretched history? I'm aware of many who are superstitious for different reasons about such things and wondered how many people would/wouldn't pass up a relatively good deal on a place to live if something atrocious or abominable had happened in it.

 

[Nick]

a) I seriously doubt that I'd look into the history of the house before buying it. It just doesn't seem like something I would be concerned with.
b) If the surrounding area is pleasing to the eye, and the interior of the house is pleasing to the eye, I will live there.

If I did look into the history of the house, I'd probably feel a bit pretentious over the fact that I live in what used to be a place where thousands of humans were killed. I'm not superstitious. Not many people can say that they live in a house that interesting.

 

[Mr Cat Dog]

If the house is going cheap because loads of people got brutally tortured and killed in it many years ago... then I'd snap it up in an instant! As well as the bragging rights of living in a 'haunted' house, it'd be a fascinating topic at parties. I imagine guests to the house may end up being a bit freaked out at its history, but I'm really not superstituious in the slightest. Although if there actually is a supernatural element to the house, I will gtfo of there and not stay like the crazy characters in American Horror Story.

 

[Truality]

If the place meets my standards (for example, a nice, clean yard *hint*) and, combined with a good deal, had only its history as a turn-down feature, I wouldn't mind about it at all. I'm a bit superstitious but not getting goosebumps from that.

If I find something scary in some houses, it's in the way that they're built, not in their history. Meaning, I've felt strange or scared even in modern, recently-built houses with no history.

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

SERVPRO: Like it never even happened.

As long as those boys went through and cleaned the place up, I have no qualms about buying any place if the price is right and it's in good condition. It's not like I investigate the history of the house anyway. And if it does turn out that it has some sort of shady past, well, then I have a very interesting conversation starter.

 

[Esper]

I don't believe in ghosts and haunted houses and all of that jazz so if the history of the house was something to do with people dying there I don't think I'd be bothered.

What would bother me would be if I learned that a house had been repossessed from some poor family or something like that. I wouldn't live in a house if I knew that my living there would hurt someone somehow.

 

[O'Keafe]

I'm not superstitious as a general rule, but I think I'd never quite feel like I was living in "my home" as opposed to "the place where a guy killed his own wife and children and made fashionable living room carpets for his own living room out of their hides", bleh. It would make it quite uncomfortable, I think. So, I guess, no.

 

[Shining Raichu]

Having something horrible happen in my future house would only be a good thing! Because of the superstitious people in the world, the price is driven down until you get a crazy good deal! It wouldn't affect my decision to buy the house at all. Life goes on, if someone got hacked to death in the house it's tragic but I think people get the impression that history repeats. The fact that someone was killed where you're currently making toast doesn't mean you will too. There is no voodoo on the house lol.

 

[Saryka]

Dude, after watching American Horror Story, I know better than to live in any kind of homes with twisted pasts. I would have this constant, persistent fear that I would die at any given moment.

TV clearly makes me more paranoid haha.

 

[Ayselipera]

a) I seriously doubt that I'd look into the history of the house before buying it. It just doesn't seem like something I would be concerned with.
b) If the surrounding area is pleasing to the eye, and the interior of the house is pleasing to the eye, I will live there.

If I did look into the history of the house, I'd probably feel a bit pretentious over the fact that I live in what used to be a place where thousands of humans were killed. I'm not superstitious. Not many people can say that they live in a house that interesting.

Pretty much the same.

I would never even think to look into the history and if the price was affordable and the house was decent then I'd buy it. Even if I knew it had some horrible past I would most likely still buy it and figure nothing would happen.

 

[TRIFORCE89]

I'd live there, probably. Hypothetically. But, I wouldn't ever actually live there because I wouldn't buy such a house because it would be quite a tough sell later