If someone hanged themselves in our apartment, should the landlord have told us this before we moved in?
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Was the dude still hanging there when you moved in? If not, it doesn't matter.
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No. Why would you need to know that? Unless it had caused structural damage in some way it shouldn't affect you. He wouldn't give you a list of everyone else who'd died there (Chances are any house you move into unless it was built within the past few years has seen its fair share of deaths). If there are long standing rumours of haunting a landlord might be expected to tell you (in case of media interest etc) but apart from that, no.
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Of course. If it happened there, it should have been completely refurnished and deemed a crime scene before that. But as long as the case is closed I wouldn't worry about it.
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Of course he should have told you, (Althoughe I can understand why he did'nt.) Theres more than one kind of damage that can happen in a place, theres damage to the building it's self, and then theres damage to the psychic atmoshere of the building. True, any home you move into has most likely had someone die in it, so it does'nt realy matter that he did'nt tell you. But a place where somebody commited suicide is realy NOT a psychicly healthy place to live, especialy if you're sensitive to that kind of thing at all.
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This is in response to RFlagg's answer. How do you know that an apartment is a "psychicly unhealthy" environment? The owner of the apartment may have done a psychic cleansing using any number of methods. My favorite would be to "smudge" or to burn sage in the four corners of the room. Years ago, I purchased a motorcycle that had been in two major accidents. My brother-in-law (Jeff)and I spent months totally restoring the bike. On the weekend we finished, he was riding the bike near his home to get a feel for how the engine tuning was, and he was broadsided by a car coming out of a side street. The bike was (again) a total loss. When I asked Jeff when we could start restoring it again, he responded "I think that bike has a death wish. I don't think we should restore it." I told him that I would "smudge" the bike to cleanse it. He said "You don't really believe in that bullsh*t do you?" I responded back to him "I believe that smudging the bike will cleanse it, just as much as I believe an inanimate object like a motorcycle can have a death wish."
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Actually, in some U.S. states the landlord (rented property)/former homewoner (property for sale or sold) MUST disclose that a death of any kind took place in or on the property. It depends on local laws, but. . . . Excerpt from LegalZoom.com below: Disclosure: So, what about that former axe-murderer tenant or the family of bagpipers in the building? Does your landlord have to disclose death, suicide or disease to you? Local codes dictate what landlords have to disclose. In some places, a landlord must disclose if a death occurred on the property; in other communities, only violent deaths must be disclosed. Often, there's a statute of limitations on disclosing death. If you're really wondering, consider meeting your new neighbors to ask questions and satisfy your curiosity.
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I think he would probably not, if he wanted to keep the apartment rented. Was there anything odd there? Did you feel uncomfortable or was the price cheaper than normal? I wouldn't want to stay there myself. My ex-husband and I lived in an apartment where we argued constantly and split. A friend who was a neighbor told me that two other couples moved in there and split up!
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