Hello;
Never used this site before, forgive me if I'm slow or do something wrong. Does anybody know what the law in the state of Florida is regarding what a seller is supposed to disclose to a potential home buyer when there has been a murder or violent suicide in the home?
As I was moving into my new home, a neighbor welcomed me and told me how great it was that I could buy this house without the recent suicide bothering me at all! :confused:
I asked around, and sure enough, a guy ate a rifle over a break-up right in the living room. Needless to say, it gives me creeps so badly, I don't know if I can continue moving and I'm rather pissed off! :mad:
Do I have any recourse?
Thank you in advance... ljm515

WHY would someone committing suicide at the property be a concern for the purchaser? It does not effect the property. Few states have this type of "disclosure" as it does not effect the property OR it's desirability.

You do realise most homes, esp older homes have a event with them.

Most of your older homes have people who have died in them, others have people who were killed and the such.

I can't see any reason anyone should have made any mention of this in a sale, and why it makes a difference in a home.

What is the difference from someone shot in the front room or granny dying in the bedroom or a child kidnapped in the home and so on.

Legem515,

Don't know if you'll see this or not, but in many circles it is believed that the wrongful death or suicide of a previous owner of a house can and does affect successive owners. I studied feng shui for many years with one of the top professors in the country (Steven Post). He told us story after story of how houses are 'imprinted' by what has happened before and wrote about one episode in his book. FYI, in case you didn't know, feng shui is a very sophisticated form of Chinese geomancy. In America however, it has degenerated into a sort of interior design by numbers, or, "Place a nice plant here for good luck with money."

What you need to do is for six months to a year is watch your luck, events that happen to you, what kind of people you meet, your day to day mood, etc. If it is noticeably worse, I would find a top feng shui consultant (and that is NOT someone who has taken a six week course in it!) to help dispel the prior energies of the house.

I congratulate you on your sensitivity and intuition about this matter. These sort of things DO affect us, not always, but often.

And for anyone tempted to scoff at this post, just as another FYI, Coca-Cola, Donald Trump and Chase Manhattan Bank all use feng shui extensively in their business affairs - as did Ronald Reagan.

dowdeva

You didn't say if you financed the home, and whether an appraisal was done for the mortgage company, if, in fact, you have a mortgage. It's good procedure for a licnesed real estate appraiser to disclose on his appraisal to the bank (or to you if there is no mortgage and you paid an appraiser for an appraisal) things such as murder's, suicides that have occurred in a home. Those events sometimes do affect the market value and the marketability of the home. If the appraiser is or becomes aware of these events it even may be a requirement that he disclsoe those facts on his appraisal. For example, would the value of the Sharon Tate resident in CA be dimished in value due to the Manson murders ? Would the infamous murder of an ex NLF star's ex wife in CA affect the value of the home she was murdered in ? Of course and the appraiser, if there was one, should disclose this information to the purchaser or the mortgage company. Check your appraisal if you had one done for you or call the bank and see if it was disclosed to them. Then check with the State of FL and locate the Real Estate Appriser's licensing board to see if you can determine the legal and the ethical standards are as far as the appraiser disclosing these types of events. No one is perfect but if the appraiser knew of the suicide, I would think he certainly should have disclosed it - the issue then might be, can he held liable for something that understandibly he may not have been aware of and do you want to pursue the matter.

And for anyone tempted to scoff at this post, just as another FYI, Coca-Cola, Donald Trump and Chase Manhattan Bank all use feng shui extensively in their business affairs - as did Ronald Reagan. Hello dow:

If I didn't think your answer was horse puckey before, I certainly think it is NOW if the Trupmpster believes it too.

excon