# Could you knowingly live in a house where a corpse has decomposed? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-knowingly-live-in-a-house-where-a-corpse-has-decomposed/408111 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Created:** [June 15, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-knowingly-live-in-a-house-where-a-corpse-has-decomposed/408111 "2007-06-15T11:58:09Z") **Posts on this page:** 6 **Page:** 2
### Author: ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu) #### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-knowingly-live-in-a-house-where-a-corpse-has-decomposed/408111/21 "2007-06-15T19:31:04Z")
Oop, make that “anything that may affect the buyer’s decision to purchase or the price”. ---
### Author: ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c) #### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-knowingly-live-in-a-house-where-a-corpse-has-decomposed/408111/22 "2007-06-15T19:52:27Z")
…to disclose the presence of a ghost? Can failure to notify the prospective buyer be grounds to void the sales contract? Suppose you havea house where somebody was killed-and his ghost shows up every dec.4 -are you bound to disclose the haunting? 😕 ---
### Author: ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor) #### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-knowingly-live-in-a-house-where-a-corpse-has-decomposed/408111/23 "2007-06-15T20:26:22Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] Depends. Can I play Lawn Darts with the chalk outline? [/QUOTE] Some chalk outlines are more common than others… [![](http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/cartoons/nemi/nemi_1905_600x194.gif) ](http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/cartoons/nemi/nemi_1905_600x194.gif) 😃 ---
### Author: ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul) #### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-knowingly-live-in-a-house-where-a-corpse-has-decomposed/408111/24 "2007-06-15T21:04:19Z")
[QUOTE=Solfy] I’ve got a house on the market. I am 100% sure there was no spot on the disclosure form that said “check here if house has contained decomposing human flesh.” Then again, real estate laws vary by state. [/QUOTE] We’re in California, and we found out about the house next door because our real estate agent was obliged to include the information in the disclosure packet for the house _we_ were thinking of buying (and eventually bought). ---
### Author: ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir) #### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-knowingly-live-in-a-house-where-a-corpse-has-decomposed/408111/25 "2007-06-15T21:57:56Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] That’s why I specified _knowingly_. [/QUOTE] That’s why I’m an agnostitic. ---
### Author: ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler) #### Post date: [June 16, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-knowingly-live-in-a-house-where-a-corpse-has-decomposed/408111/26 "2007-06-16T02:44:43Z")
[QUOTE=THespos] I could. Especially if the decomposing corpse situation caused me to get the house cheaper. [/QUOTE] Definitely. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-knowingly-live-in-a-house-where-a-corpse-has-decomposed/408111.md?page=1)