Many of us do not want to live in a haunted house. Now there's a business in Canada that helps prevent that from happening and it's called "Diedinhouse.com"
Diedinhouse.com's website that tells you if someone died in your house
Some people are very keen on matters of the macabre especially death.
This sensitivity is so much that some buyers might eschew the rental or
purchase of a dwelling place if they knew someone had died in it. This
is particularly the case in places where a suicide or homicide have
occurred. However, the disclosure of a death on the premises is not
legally defined as a “material” fact which must be revealed to buyers as
is required with other issues such as mold or termite infestation. It
is possible for a heinous act to have been performed in a home only days before someone buys it unaware of its history.
Source: USAToday story
For $11.99, a search on his website — which was a year in the making —
will dig through multiple sources to see if anyone spent their last
days at your address. Coast to Coast AM says the site scours millions of
records. (In Texas, for example, you might want to avoid the Fort
Worth home where a drunk woman hit a homeless man with her car and left
him to die in her garage.)Realtors initially weren't fans of Condrey's business, since it's harder to sell so-called "stigmatized properties."
Condrey says a death on-site can reduce a property's value by 15% to 25%. But lately, he says, some realtors have been coming around, even using his site to run their own searches.
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