The Amityville House is up for sale again. :eek: They have changedthose creepy windows on the end of the house. But just thinking about six people dead in those bedrooms. :eek: Nope, I’m not living there. Wouldn’t even consider it.
I have no interest in living in any home where people were murdered.
How about you?
odd that zillow doesn’t show the inside. They usually include bothe exterior and interior photos on their listings.
I mean, it depends on why the murders occurred. If the murders occurred because the house was a meth den before it got repossessed, gussied up, and sold I’d be a bit nervous meth heads would come by mistakenly thinking it’s still a place to get drugs.
The Amity house? Well, maybe not, I know they redesigned it, but not wanting to is almost entirely due to my fear of annoying tourists. But in general, living in a house like the Amity house where tragic murders occurred for no real reason other than tragedy, absolutely. Even better if there’s a discount!
I’d be absolutely ecstatic if it were haunted too, because I would document and prove that shit and get rich quick.
Last sold: Oct 2010 for $950,000 and the current price is $850,000
100k loss if they get their asking price. I guess those creaking doors and cold drafts make it a hard sell. 
Something like that house I would buy and live in in a second if it was a good enough deal; way below market value. The problem with some of those “known haunted homes” is that people almost want to pay extra for the creepy reputation and all. But in general terms, murders or suicides or simple deaths in a house don’t disturb me at all.
If people were murdered in a house I was thinking of buying, I would try to get a discount. If the house were notorious like the Amityville house, I would worry about people wanting to come in and tour the place, and then I would have to vacuum all the time.
Of course, if they believe in ghosts and giant pigs named Jodi, they are gullible enough to pay the $20 I would charge so it might be worth it.
Regards,
Shodan
I wouldn’t live anyplace that was notorious enough to have hordes of morons constantly passing by, jaws agape, snapping cellphone photos.
I remember a couple homes that my wife and I looked at with a Realtor. Both just gave off this odd, strange vibe. Even the Realtor mentioned the cold spots in one of the houses. We crossed them off our house hunting list.
I don’t know if it was the feng shui or what. But some houses do give you an unsettling experience when you visit. Even without knowing any history about them.
This sums up my feelings. And I think the neighborhood, more than the house, would influence my decision. I don’t want to live where murder is routine and frequent, but a one-time crime isn’t going to sink an otherwise good deal.
I agree. I wouldn’t want to live in a notorious murder house where a lot of people would be coming by wanting to see it. And I wouldn’t want to live in a house with gang or organized crime related murders, since I’d be worried what that means about the safety of the neighborhood, and slight worry that some gang members wouldn’t be aware that criminals had moved out and I had moved in.
But if it was some tragic but not infamous crime and I otherwise liked the house and the price, the previous murders wouldn’t keep me from living there.
In general, I have no problem with the idea of living somewhere that people have died.
Two caveats:
That particular house, no. It has a terrible school district 
(also the tourist thing)
Just a random murder that happened? Yea, I don’t particularly care what went on in the house before I got there as long as there aren’t lasting effects. It’s just a house, ghosts don’t exist.
It depends on the situation:
Good solid materialist atheist here: no problem at all.
I live in an apartment where more than one person has died (including, much alas, my old roommate, a couple years ago.) My sister lives in the house where our mother committed suicide…and the house is built over an ancient Native American grave!
(It was a long time ago, and the laws were more lax. Digging the foundations, my papa found old bones…and just moved them to another place and reburied them. That wouldn’t quite be legal today.)
I’d consider it, unless the murders were drug or mob related. As long as there’s no reason to think that someone might come back looking for something, why not?
My feeling.
I’m not afraid of ghosts, bad vibes, etc, and was considering buying a house where a suicide had occurred, which had been on the market for a long time, and was underpriced, because a lot of people didn’t make offers when they heard about the suicide; then my landlords decided to put the house where I was already living on the market, and offered it to me at $5,000 below market if I would forgo a couple of inspections (something a purchasing tenant could legally do, but not any purchaser), that, because it had been a rental property were checked out anyway, and I’d been living there for five years, so if it leaked of had termites, I’d probably already know. It saved them money, and they split the savings with me, basically, plus, I didn’t have to move, so I saved some money that way.
Sometimes I kind miss what I could have done with the suicide house, which was bigger and way cooler than the one I did buy, but I don’t even live in that city anymore. The suicide house wasn’t notorious. It was an old guy whose wife of more than 40 years had died, and after 8 months of something without her, he had hanged himself, because he couldn’t go on alone (all this was part of the disclosure). The hanged part was kinda creepy, although I suppose “Here’s where they painted over the bloodstains” would’ve been worse.
But if anything, they’d been happy in that house together for several decades-- so happy that he couldn’t go on without her, which is what I planned to say to anyone who got creeped out. Personally, like I said, vibes, ghosts, I don’t believe in any of that. If a room feels “off” it probably either has a draft, a weird shadow from a badly hung light, or the corners aren’t even. I had some friends whose house had a triangular bathroom. I have no idea why. It always made me kinda dizzy. It had a tall ceiling too. It felt weird, and had weird resonance. It was like the inside of a prism. If I were superstitious, and someone told me there’d been a death in that bathroom, I’d probably attribute the weird feeling there to the death, but I’m sure it really had to do with the bizarre acoustics, and the fact that people aren’t used to triangular rooms.
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The law office I work at represents a woman who works at a U.S. government agency, currently stationed in Spain. She petitioned to be able to move (due to her job) to Cameroon and take her son with her. The father tried to block it, for “safety” reasons: “Americans get killed in Cameroon all the time!”
He didn’t mention, though our client brought it up, that he lives in a house where a woman was murdered several years prior to his moving in, and there were at least two additional murders in the immediate area in the last five years.
Our client and her son are moving to Cameroon next month. 
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I don’t know. Pretty nice piece of shoreline property at an attractive price. I could sell my house in Long Beach and be able to move up to Long Island. Don’t think I’d like the winter. Interesting though, they recently built an exterior replica of it in the park by my house for Amityville: The Awakening. Some things never die, so… I don’t know.
I, on the other hand, would consider walking around the yard covered in blood and carrying an axe just for the Hell of it. 
(I’ve lived in tourist traps different times from Colonial Williamsburg to an amusement park. After a while you get used to the tourons)
(tourists who act like morons)
This. It’s really hard to completely remove body fluids from building materials and you can get some nasty mold growing on blood-soaked underflooring. It’s also possible that if the murderer was more of a serial type rather than a one-off deal that you might come across some other bodies or body parts later while renovating or gardening. There are also, as mentioned, concerns about druggies/mobsters/and even home invaders coming back for a second try. So it would depend on the type of murder.
I keep thinking of a quote from “Frasier” at this link at 13.03.
Its just hard for me to think that somewhere in a house I’d buy… there might have once been… a multiple murderer…
