Would you buy a "Notorious" house/building ?

[J4CKO]

I read about Jimmy Saviles Leeds "Penthouse" being knocked down, sounds like another apartment will be built in its place so not sure what that achieves.

To be honest, I am not sure what I would think about buying it, an old weirdo who abused kids owned it but there must be lots of houses that have had abuse, suicide, murder, rape or any other crimes happen and the owners would be unaware ?

We were told a house on our road had a suicide in the garage buy a local copper, he wouldnt say which one but to be honest, someone ending their life from a beam in the garage 20 years ago doesn't bother me one iota, people die in houses every day, on the road, in hospital, it is just part of life.

Surely after its cleaned and redecorated it is just a building again as long as it doesn't become a Mecca for weirdos ?

[J4CKO]

This is the nearest we have locally I can think of,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Clark

Wouldnt bother me, just a tragic situation.

And Alan Turing lived, and died locally.

I think there is probably an equation to determine the amount of resistance,

How long ago, versus how grisly, as things that were 100 years ago or more are almost considered as adding a bit of character but a pile of rotting young men in the eighties under your floor, less so.

[J4CKO]

My brothers house belonged to an old lady and it was utterly minging when he got it, didnt look too bad but everything was ingrained with her 60 a day habit, not sure if she died there but they always blame "Freda" for any noises or things going missing.

[J4CKO]

sebhaque said:

I live in a 1950s bungalow and one of the old boys who came over to give the boiler a service mentioned how an old owner had died in the property many decades ago. Apparently the death was left undiscovered for some time and the subsequent buyer of the property decided to give it an enormous makeover with several large extensions.

Doesn't really bother me much although the ancient central heating does crack and pop quite loudly occasionally, which can be quite disconcerting at this time of the night (01:30).

I think the Boiler Man should have perhaps kept that one to himself !

[J4CKO]

My mum used to live on a road in Manchester which was near a Victorian Cemetry, the local kids used to play in their and ineviatbly got into crypts, quite often bits of Skeletons used to end up above ground and thrown round.

[J4CKO]

shakotan said:

I live in Levi Bellfield's flat.

Surely that is a cell ?

[J4CKO]

I walked past this house last night,

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greate...

Fairly notorious, due to being the home of an alledged gangster with a few murder trials under his belt and also a man was shot dead in the house.

Noticed that all the metal gates and railings had gone last night, wonder why ?