Do house sellers tell you if a house is haunted?

Answer 1

A seller should tell you all about the house. If you are concerned about a house being haunted, ASK. If this house has a real estate agent, the agent must find out if there are any stories of this house being haunted. Always remember the saying, BUYER BEWARE.

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I think a seller should tell you if a house is haunted. But a seller won't tell you if they want to sell it quickly. If the house looks suspicious alwaysASK the seller.

BY:PERLA


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This answer would fall under state laws concerning disclosure of pre-existing conditions on the house known to the seller. Some states do not require disclosure of problems, as long as the buyer is allowed to do a complete inspection of the property. Other states require that the seller disclose problems which might not be discoverable by the buyer upon inspection (ie: the Plumbing leaks in the winter, but the buyer is inspecting in the summer when there is no evidence of leakage).


There was a case in Nyack New York (Stambovsky v Ackley, 1991) where the seller was sued by the buyer for misrepresentation, when the buyer learned that the house was thought of as haunted by the local community. The seller of the house lost the case, mainly because they had written to local newspapers and Readers Digest claiming the house was haunted, and thus were omitting a fact to the seller that they had previously gone to great lengths to publicize.


Property disclosure laws differ from state to state, so you'd need to check with a lawyer in your state if you think you have a case against your seller.


Of course, ghosts don't exist... so you risk making yourself look very foolish in the national news when you try to pursue and kind of lawsuit there.