the seller was serious right? exactly what 91 said. theres disclosure laws, where you have to put stuff about murders in the contract. you should have put it in the contract earlier though, so you wouldn't have wasted your time on that buyer who ended up not buying BECAUSE of the ghost thing. again what 91 says though, the seller is an idiot as much as you are. YDI.

um by law you have to disclose the fact that a house could possibly be haunted if you don't you could get sued so thank the seller

oh i see, the owner was a nut job! i would of slapped him in the face

#93, you cannot sue over a house being haunted because hauntings cannot as yet be conclusively proven. You can only pass the house off to someone else. Besides, it's possible for some people to live in a haunted house and never experience anything, then sell it not knowing it was haunted. Ergo, lawsuits over hauntings would be stupid even if they had legal merit, which they don't.

well usually if a house is considered haunted, it means someone died there if someone died there, the seller is required by law to tell the buyer so YDI for not telling the buyer earlier

#29 - Not ghosts, specifically, but spirits. People say "haunted" but some places are just plain evil. Possessed, haunted, a portal to another world, whatever you want to call it. And I would not sell a place like that to someone else. I would, seriously, burn it to the ground. If you mean that you don't believe in a spiritual world, well, that's just unfortunate. For you.

Oh, and #'s 93 & 96, my husband's first house he bought in college actually had a clause in the deed that said it could be basically returned if the house was unlivable due to "supernatural or unexplained activity." It had been empty for 30 years and had a history before that. It was a bit weird, but I guess it was perfect for a bunch of permanently drunk/high college students who couldn't tell the difference between spirits and hallucinations. Everyone saw stuff there but you never know how much of it was just them. I never did, but I felt stuff. I refuse to see things.

#7- it does suck for the OP to be out $8000 because in real estate one can never guarantee their income. Some years agents can make almost no money and in other years they can make a lot. Right now with the "economy issue" (it's not so bad up in Canada, but Real Estate Agents are still having a tough time up here), agents aren't making very much right now, so $8000 is a big deal for them to not make. to the OP: that really sucks. I'm assuming you're in the states because in Canada, I'm almost certain the buyers cannot back out that late into the deal.

Anyone stupid enough to believe in ghosts deserves to lose out on a deal.

#98, you're kind of an idiot.