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    Does that mean the rent is reduced? I’ll move in tomorrow! Bring in extra ghosts if it will save money!

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      “Mary I swear to god if you don’t have your share of the rent tomorrow I’m calling the Ghostbusters!”

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        Beetlejuice would understand in this economy. He’d probably help find cool extra ghosts for you.

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          Beetlejuice wouldn’t understand, he’s a used car salesman and a bad one at that. He would probably offer under the current market value though. Not even he’s that crazy. Ultimately he’s in it for the game, not the prize.

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      For real. Only problem I’d have with 22 ghosts is making sure they do their share of the dishes

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        “Listen ghost, if you’re going to move stuff around anyways, why don’t you put things that were left out back where they belong?”

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          “Then at night, before bed, all the lights in the house went out.”

          “You keep your lights on at night?”

          “So I was sitting here and suddenly a shoe flew across the room and landed all the way over here on the shoe rack.”

          “Right next to the other shoe?”

          “We hear noises from the basement and when we went down there there was red paint all over the walls.”

          “This paint is perfectly applied. Bitch, this ghost is trying help you.”

          “No, the other day I loaded the dish washer and when I came back the dish washer was completely empty and all the dishes were in the cabinet… I’m not crazy!”

          “Bra, this ghost feels bad for you and is helping you.”

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        Can you imagine how low the sale price is with that many deaths? Those ghosts are probably more reasonable than buying a home these days

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    I mean, since the paranormal doesn’t exist unless the people in the house died due to some kind of environmental factor then the number of people who died there is completely irrelevant to the new residents, and does not in any way increase their likelihood of harm.

    Really it just lowers the rent or mortgage, an objective win for the new residents.

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      It’s amazing how common this is. One of my old employers got a great discount on rent for office space in a central location because no one wanted to rent on the 13th floor.

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        I wonder if non-Christian people do not mind living in 13th floors. That superstition of number 13 being unlucky is mostly believed by Christians.

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          13 being unlucky is mostly believed by Christians.

          More like westerns, the superstition started out in Mesopotamia.

          I wonder if non-Christian people do not mind living in 13th floors.

          Yes, but then they avoid “their” unlucky numbers. Like 4 in Japan.

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          In Vancouver the buildings don’t have 4th, 13th, 14th, or 24th floors. So it goes from 12th floor to 15th floor.

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          Weirdly, the boss was very Christian. I guess he valued money over his beliefs, and the superstitions of others?

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          I don’t remember what the number was, but O had a guy ask me at work for a different sandbox server because the number was unlucky in his country or something. So like Dev06 was a no go.

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      I agree. Also, they would totally market it as a ghost house on air bnb, and never sell it.

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        I’d also wire up all kinds of paranormal special effects shit to fuck with the people staying there.

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          Who needs special effects? Just use the classic trick of carbon monoxide pumped into the house and let them hallucinate all kinds of stuff for free.

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      I dunno, at 22 deaths of the entire families, the supernatural doesnt exist, but SOMETHING in that house is causing deaths

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        Could have been rival gangs killing each other in the house for all we know.

        But I think anything of substance or concern would fall comfortably under the “environmental factors” I already made caveat for in my original comment

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          Damn, I COMPLETELY overlooked the environmental caveat in your response on first read, my bad, that was essentially my point xD

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    Sir, I’m a millennial. It would have to be a graveyard without the house on top before I refused it.

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    I live in a house with parts built in it from 1100. The down stairs used to be a stopping off point for knights on their way to the crusades. If people haven’t died in this place i would be really surprised.

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      My much more recent building from 1860 has certainly had a number of people die in it. It’s part of the natural history of any habitat imo.

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            I’m curious on the stats. I don’t doubt the likelyhood of home v. Hospital but just the mentality being a modern shift of the hospital is where you go when you’re sick. Especially rurally it was less common (doctors did more home visits).

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              The hospital will discharge you, they avoid keeping beds warm for those that will soon be dead. So unless they think your going to be back very soon, they will send you with a discharge plan to go die at home when at all possible.

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      That is so so so coooooool. My place is a century old so its history is as exciting as beige bath towels.

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      Yes, from $900k down to $800k in this market. So you still can’t afford it? Shame…

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    Author of this meme never had a chance to buy a house under asking

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      I’m not paying extra for a murder house if the bodies aren’t still there

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    According to TheMovieDB there are at least 86 movies with “Amityville” in the title. This trope gets more mileage than you expect.

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    Manner of death is important.

    Murder? Statistically its safer than any other house.

    Asbestosis? Run.