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Stigmatized Property - Would you buy one?
Does anyone have experience buying/selling a stigmatized property? If so, what's your experience?
I'm thinking about buying a property where a murder/suicide by the previous owners occurred back in 2017. Son murdered his father in the living room and then killed himself. Wife still lives in the house and is now selling. The purchase would be as a primary residence for my family, but I would likely rent it out after living in it 5 or so years. Do you think I'd have issues renting it out and/or selling it? Right now it's been on the market 70 days, but currently, everything in this neighborhood is sitting a long time. People seem to have strong feelings on this topic both ways...
I'm actually most concerned about my kids learning about what happened and then getting freaked out. They're only 1.5 and 3.5 now.