I agree; some of them seem fun and interesting. (I enjoy reading the old threads on the forum so when I see one that might bring new interest I like to bump it. )
A few years ago a coworker did buy a house where a woman had been brutally murdered. Buyer wasn't bothered by the house's history and was able to score a great purchase price, but I don't believe I could have bought that house. They lived there nearly 20 years and sold for a tidy profit.
As I mentioned a few years ago, if I were going to raise a family in the house, I probably wouldn't. I wouldn't want my kid to be harassed about living in a murder house. There was a house a few doors down from me where someone had been murdered thirty years ago, or something like that, and everyone still referred to it as "the murder house." We don't have a lot of murders in Millinocket. The last person who bought it remodeled the garage into a house and tore the house down last summer.
@Beth Gallagher I saw a documentary of this couple who bought the house where an old lady lived who killed around a dozen of her 'borders' for their social security checks. She buried them in the backyard. The couple got the house super cheap and made a fun sort of museum out of it. I wouldn't mind if anyone had been killed or died in a house I was buying, especially it I got a great deal on it. I'm not squeamish about that sort of nonsense at all.
There are degrees of murder that maybe I would consider buying the house like robbery maybe murder/suicide with no children but not like that. My mind would be busy wondering 'why, where, who, and other detailed questions of curiosity?' I wouldn't be able to enjoy living there no matter how good of a deal it happened to be.
I don't know @Bess Barber if I was told that 5 people were murdered just before signing away my money I would have to take two steps back and out the door saying 'See ya."