How do we find out if someone has died in a house before we buy it

Let me see, you posted your question as a answer to someone about an important event in the history of Christianity.
Even I can not figure that one out as to why??

But I have moved your post so you may get some answers

There is no real record and to be honest normally does not hurt anything unless it was a famous murder or something.

But you talk to neighbors, you do searches in the local newspaper archives and more

You could always waste.. err I mean spend your money on a psychic or medium.

Sarah

Umm I think if you ask the realtor they at least have to tell you if the last owners died.

Just ask.

In my state the property records are available on line. You can determine who owned a given piece of property for at least one previous owner. Then do a search for that name in obituary records (newspapers) or one of the sites like ancestry.com. To go further back you may need to go to the place where they register land records in your area.

Even if you do all this, you may not be able to determine exactly where a person who lived there previously died and I personally never considered such a thing to be important. I live in a home built in 1939 and I wouldn't be surprised if someone died here at one time or another.

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Originally Posted by JimGunther

In my state the property records are available on line. You can determine who owned a given piece of property for at least one previous owner. Then do a search for that name in obituary records (newspapers) or one of the sites like ancestry.com. To go further back you may need to go to the place where they register land records in your area.

Even if you do all this, you may not be able to determine exactly where a person who lived there previously died and I personally never considered such a thing to be important. I live in a home built in 1939 and I wouldn't be surprised if someone died here at one time or another.

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This will lead to an owner who died in a house; I don't see how it would lead to ANYONE who died in a particular house, which I believe was the question.

Correct! That's why I said "you may not be able to determine exactly where a person who lived there previously died ." Of course you could always do an Internet search in the local newspapers websites for the address to see if anything happened there that was newsworthy, such as a death.

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Originally Posted by JimGunther

Correct! That's why I said "you may not be able to determine exactly where a person who lived there previously died ." Of course you could always do an Internet search in the local newspapers websites for the address to see if anything happened there that was newsworthy, such as a death.

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Again - the question is whether a person who LIVED there died there. It's whether ANYBODY died there.

Unless I'm reading it wrong -

Yes I got that impression too, that's why I suggested a search for the address itself in the local papers websites. It's a longshot for sure, but if, lets say, a burglar were killed there, it would have certainly appeared in the local papers.

Wow. So my gift really could be used. Lol a sensitive WOULD know, if you knew one? But yes the realtor has to tell you that information. Your getting good advice here!

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Originally Posted by exhaustedmom

wow. so my gift really could be used. lol a sensitive WOULD know, if you knew one? but yes the realtor has to tell you that information. your getting good advice here!

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How would a realtor possibly know whether (and who) somebody died in a particular house? Realtors don't get into the background. They simply sell property.