Morbid Real Estate: May Edition
1211 Macon Ave., Pittsburgh Welcome to another exciting edition of Morbid Real Estate, where I hunt down homes for sale that come with a tragic history. Like many states, Pennsylvania doesn't require real estate agents to disclose whether or not a death has occurred inside a house unless asked directly. In the handful of states with laws requiring sellers and agents to disclose deaths on a property, such rules only apply to murders and suicides that have occurred within the previous one to two years. But what if you're thinking about buying a property and have concerns that someone might've croaked inside your future home in a most unnatural way fifty years ago? Or a hundred years ago? Well, I'm here to help... and, maybe even strike a blow for homebuyers against the unbridled greed of real estate agents, mortgage lenders, private equity firms and half-assed house-flippers who think that it's perfectly acceptable to ask $475,000 for a two-bedroom, one bath with a l...
