Ethical Dilemma – would you disclose?

It’s a bit cheeky to say that because the buyers didn’t ask about the house’s history, there was no need to mention it. Okay, so now every time I want to buy a house I should ask whether someone was murdered there???
The silly part is the agent probably didn’t mention it for fear of scaring off buyers, which would certainly be the case with some buyers. But I bet there would be plenty of others who would revel in the gruesome past, as long as the price was right.

Keep smiling
Felicity

I can see it now, in the future, down at the agents. “We’ve also got this fabulous near new house in Ryde for rent affectionately known as the death house……interested? You can make an offer…….please?

Or when you want to offload it…..
“But sir that offer is 35% below market value surely you can offer more !”.

I wouldn’t touch it!!!

knock the place down – get the local catholic priest down to warn the demons off the land and bobs your uncle.

I bought a house where a murder had been comited outside. THe dicount of the buy price was not because of the murder, but rather the bank was about to foreclose on them!

But yes I would disclose.

Rgds.
Lucifer_au

Derek, I intend to the next time they call me asking where I am at with a couple of their listings. I was actually next door to their office tonight having dinner at the Italian restaurant next door. Lights were on and door locked….

I was renting out a flat in a house I owned once. It was an old house that had been owned previously by a doctor. The flat was where his surgery had been. A lady came round to look at the flat one night. We were standing in the living room and she said: ‘I really like the flat, but it’s too crowded.’ In response to my quizzical look, she said: ‘I’m a psychic. There are dozens of people in this room.’ It took me ages to get her out of there – she started talking to them.

todays paper

qte

It’s not quite the bridge, the rock or the reef, but it may have some pull with the macabre-minded.

A British man says he has offered to buy the suburban Sydney house where Sef Gonzales slaughtered his family so he can open it up as a tourist attraction.

“I’ve spoke to the agent. We have an offer on the table. We’re waiting now to find out (if) we’re accepted,” Craig Gill told Seven Network’s Sunrise program.

“From there we will obviously look for the planning permission.”

Mr Gill, who calls himself an “entrepreneur”, said his offer matched the $800,000 a family unwittingly paid for the north-west Sydney home when agents failed to disclose the property’s grisly past.

The Lins, Buddhists from Taiwan, are now refusing to move into the home, believing it to be haunted by ghosts, and want their $80,000 deposit returned.

Mr Gill agreed the family should get their money back, but he admitted his own motives for bidding for the property were somewhat less community-minded.

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“First, I want to make some money out of the property. And by doing that I’m going to open it up as a tourist attraction,” he said.

“You’ve got the Harbour Bridge, you’ve got the Sydney Opera House and I think we could use the House of Epping for example.”

Mr Gill’s business plan involves charging $2 for entry into the innocuous-looking Ryde home, where Gonzales murdered his mother, father and sister over three hours on a rainy night three years ago. He is now serving three life sentences.

Once tourists crossed the threshold, Mr Gill admitted, it remained unclear what they would actually see.

“I think all the blood may have been cleaned up and things like that,” he said.

“But at the end of the day, I think people want to see these things.”

House of horrors attractions are nothing new in Mr Gill’s homeland, whose darker tourist drawcards include the home of Jack the Ripper. Mr Gill said he once lived next door.

He acknowledged some people may oppose his plan as being in poor taste.

“It must be a horrible idea, but I’ve already got something like 2,500 people who’ve already said they would queue to go into the house,” he said.

He also admitted he might find some opposition from the property’s neighbours.

But if he convinced them the business plan would put an end to the “stopping, looking, pointing” they might go for it.

“If we can get … the neighbourhood away from the drive-by pointing and looking then it’ll be over with,” he said.

“They can all go back to a normal life.”

And if he succeeded in buying the house but council blocked his plan?

“Knock it down, start again, build another tourist attraction.”

A guy wanted to do a similar thing in Melbourne and start running tours to all the sites of the ‘gangland war’ murders. Needless to say this has been met with a lot of opposition also.

Wow, imagine exploiting the death of someone else for your own personal gain. Some things really are unimaginable.

Ali G