It's a little bit creepy living in that house. I think it is the bank fault because they didn't inform the client about the true history of that house.







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How did they suddenly become a "client" ?

And a "client" for whom ?

This is always an interesting topic, and in MA, you don't have to disclose stigmatized property. I feel that Artiste is on the right path - if you KNOW something, you should never lie about it. I also think that if you KNOW something, it is almost always better to disclose it.

In the case of neighbors though, you may KNOW the neighbor said something about the house, but that doesn't mean you KNOW something about the house.

The neighbor may have told me that the living room was once painted in polka dots and was so ugly...why would that be pertinant? The neighbor may tell me that the sky over that particular house always looks green instead of blue? Why would I disclose the fact that the neighbor said this to a client?

This may sound far-fetched, but try proving a haunting to me.

In this case, the attorney is doing what they can to get paid and paid and paid. The bank covered their disclosures, most states don't require the disclosure of stigmatized property (I'd actually guess that ALL states don't require this disclosure), and they are making a big deal about nothing.

What about the indian that got murdered on that land in 1457 during a village dispute? How about all the dead animals in the backyard? Mice, moles, chipmunks, birds...

In MA, you can search the tax records for a death certificate on a property- so the bank COULD have known. But the buyer COULD have known in that case also. Either it's a case of a buyer not doing their due diligence, or a case of there being no way to reasonably know that something happened (which means the buyer, who bought as-is, has to live with it).

I'm not an attorney, this isn't legal advice...just my stupid opinion

The couple called me and told me that their lawyer said the bank agreed to pay them $60k.

Well now that the new owner knows what happen in that house, I wonder how much less they will get when they try to sell it. Now because the bank paid it, is now assume it is a true fact.

I had a property as an REO where the prior owner committed suicide on the day of the lock out and was found dead by the sheriff and myself... it was an awful situation. We got the house cleaned out though and put it on the market. NH is a state where you only disclose a suicide if asked. A buyer came along and though they didn't ask me about it, I did encourage them to talk to the woman across the street about the property as she knew what happened and even though I wasn't required to disclose, it still felt all wrong since I knew what happened and it would've bothered me if I was moving into that house and found out after the fact. I was very relieved when the neighbor brought it up. I hated that house... gave me the creeps going in there.

Yes, they received $60k and I'm showing them their new home now. As I mentioned earlier the wife doesn't want to live in that house so they rent it and disclose it that there was suicide in that house.