r/thenetherlands • u/Love-Space-166 • 3d ago
Question Do Dutch people mind if someone previously died in their property?
In Japan, we have the concept of an “incident property”, basically a place where someone has died (suicide, murder, or even just passing away alone and not being found for a while). Landlords are legally required to disclose this to new tenants for a few years, and because people tend to avoid them, the rent usually gets discounted. There are even people who actively seek them out for cheap rent, though that’s rare.
I was wondering, does anything like this exist in the Netherlands? Like if someone dies in a flat, do landlords have to tell the next tenant? And does it actually affect rent?
It just makes me curious since so many Dutch properties are 100+ years old, so statistically plenty of people must have died inside. Due to the surge in rents, I initially thought this would be one way to rent cheap, but realised that I have never heard of this concept in the Netherlands and assume it doesn’t exist here?
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u/SmokeGrassEatThatAss 3d ago
Haha no, if anything, Dutch people would happily take a discount and live there. Many houses are so old I’m sure several people died there
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u/OutsiderWalksAmongUs 3d ago
A friend of mine recently bought a house that one of the previous owners were born and died in.
Honestly it's a pretty nice thing. The previous owner lived there for 90 years with his parents, wife and eventually children. One of those children became the neighbour of my friend's parents.
So my friends old neighbour sold it to my friend. My friend got a good deal on the house, and the neighbour is happy to be able to sell it to someone he knows will cherish it.
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u/tricyphona 2d ago
Downside of someone living there for 90 years, renovation might be a bitch. Have had couple of friends who bought houses and they had to fix the foundation, not a fun time.
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u/nlutrhk 3d ago
Many houses are so old
That's not a thing in Japan: houses are not built to be sold to a new owner. Houses get demolished when the owner moves out. It might be different with apartments.
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u/nemosevgi 3d ago
Thats the opposite of sustainability. Why though?
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u/levios3114 3d ago
They also sometimes wrap bananas with their peel still on in plastic which should tell you enough about how much they care about sustainability
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u/BoLoYu 3d ago
It's because of earthquakes, religious reasons and preference.
Earthquake building regulations and construction methods keep improving, so it's cheaper to build a new house instead of upgrading old houses.
Shinto religion really considers death to be impure, so a death occurring in a house or even the owner just dying is considered bad omen, so people don't want to live in them.
Japanese people just prefer new things including houses instead of second hand things.
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u/Beginning-Crew1842 3d ago
Japanese houses decay a LOT more than Dutch ones.
Due to building materials, mostly.
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u/BlueKante 3d ago
Sustainability is not really something most asian gouvernements are concerned with. Try buying any drink in southern asia, you get three bags, 4 plastic straws, and ice that has been deliverd by a dieseltruck with it.
I am exaggerating ofcourse but its really quite insane how little they care about waste.
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u/mfitzp 3d ago
Can’t afford to be so picky.
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u/kytheon 3d ago
There's like 100 other good reasons not to buy the house and we still do.
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u/AlexZhyk 3d ago
One of them might be living neighbors.
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u/QuietDisquiet 3d ago
I mean, they definitely make more noise than dead neighbours. My neighbours are still young though...
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u/Chuckrange 3d ago
Was about to comment, man if i could buy a house right now i would drag out the body myself if that was in the listing.
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u/WideEyedWand3rer Leidend voorwerp 3d ago
'Cosy property with complementary weights and rustic burgundy carpet stains. An amazing opportunity for true-crime aficionados.'
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u/onebluepussy_ 3d ago
I used to say I wouldn’t care if I had to scrape the blood of the previous tenant from the ceiling 😂
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u/noottt 3d ago
My house is over a 100 years old and that's no exception by any means. I'm pretty sure some person must have died here in the past.
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u/nineties_adventure 3d ago
Same here. I know for a fact that several people over the course of 150 years died in my house (peacefully). I just regard them as extra guardians.
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u/NeverSawOz 3d ago
With 2000 years of written history and many before that, there's always someone who died on your property.
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u/CarfDarko 3d ago
If you live in Flevoland changes are only +70 years... Unless you count shipwrecks.
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u/NeverSawOz 3d ago
Well, not entirely. The coastline did recede from antiquity to the late medieval times. Also, the (former) islands remaining were bigger, so quite a few of drowned villages in the area.
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u/Marali87 3d ago
Just to be that person (sorry): neither the Germanic tribes in the North nor the Celtic tribes in the south left written history. Unless you count the Romans writing ABOUT them of course :)
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u/ColouredGlitter 3d ago
As long as the body isn’t in the house anymore by the time I live there, I cannot bother.
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u/Department_of_Rust 3d ago
With the housing crisis, we will soon reach a point that the body would just become an inconvenience.
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u/Elisind 3d ago
We can probably stuff it into the green bin. Maybe spread out over 2 pick ups.
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u/Dov_reddit 3d ago
Because we all know gft means groenten, flees en tuin
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u/itsabacontree 3d ago
"Oh, that's just Henk. Never does his chores on the cleaning roster, lazy bum."
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u/Snuyter 3d ago
How about the body fluids though? There was a tv series on npo a few years ago following a person who cleans those places. It’s not a body anymore after a while, it merges together with the house. You’ll start to hear it at night. Boo!
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u/Apotak 3d ago
Toss the carpet, problem solved.
Most people die in their bed anyway. Who wants a second hand matrass?
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u/pfooh 3d ago edited 3d ago
Our upstairs neighbour died in his house. He was a secluded guy and not always home, so we didn't think much of it when we didn't hear him for a few days. When we got worried and called the police, he had been laying there for several days. We bought his apartment from his landlord the next week.
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u/RuinAccomplished6681 3d ago
Well, that’s one way to be the first to know a house comes on the market.. 🙈
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u/LordBlackadder92 3d ago
My brother's ex once rented an appartment where the occupant died. It was noticed after the downstairs neighbor noticed an abundance of flies. Apartment was thoroughly cleaned and there was no rent discount afterwards.
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u/wsLyNL 3d ago
Kinda curious, did you need to let the apartment be professionally cleaned?
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u/pfooh 3d ago
Not really because of his death.
He was a hoarder, and the house hadn't had any maintenance for at least 50 years, so it was a complete mess. We bought it 'as is', got the municipality to empty it out, and then did a huge renovation where we combined it with the upstairs storage rooms on the top floor to a 1.5 floor apartment with roof terrace.
But his dying didn't make the mess much bigger. Not sure if it would have if it had been a more normal situation.
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u/jeanpaulmars 3d ago
I wouldn't buy it with blood-stained walls or anything. Otherwise, don't care. Landlords don't need to tell, neighbors might.
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u/Subtleabuse 3d ago
I will wheelbarrow their giblets out myself, I just want a place to live, I don't care about a few corpses.
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u/TheIntrovertQuilter 3d ago
Never heard of it. Actually I only ever heard of it from Americans. I think houses in general are too often to old here... Imagine trying to get a house older than 50 years where nobody died in 🤣
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u/Batavus_Droogstop 3d ago
I honestly think many houses are like that, many people die in hospital or move to an elderly home before they die. Now if you think about the history of the rooms in elderly homes though...
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u/RelevanceReverence 3d ago
No, nobody cares.
With the exception of serious crimes like the house of Josef Fritzl or Marc Dutroux, neither of which are in the Netherlands.
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u/woopstrafel 3d ago
Is that house in Ruinerwold for sale yet?
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u/slimfastdieyoung 3d ago
I grew up not too far from there and trust me, you don’t want to buy that house. The house is fine but it’s in Ruinerwold
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u/bdcp 3d ago
It was already sold. Here's one of the brothers talking about it and how the owners change it a bit. So the new owners also didnt give a shit
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u/ImagineNL 3d ago
No, not really. Blood stains, flies and a penetrating smell of a corpse might be dealbreakers.
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u/Gabriel_WB 3d ago
Depends on how they died.
if they died from carbon monoxide poisoning, fell through the floorboards, or tripped and fell down the stairs, I would at the very least doublecheck the technical condition of the property
For the rest, not in particular.
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u/ik101 3d ago
Not at all. Old houses are very valuable because of the location and the style and nobody cares if someone died in it.
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u/civilizedmonkey 3d ago
Yeah this is a good point. Many houses in Holland are easily 2~300 years old. It's pretty much guaranteed someone died there.
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u/FlyingKittyCate 3d ago edited 3d ago
I think most Dutch people would be willing to kill a current occupant if it rewards them an affordable place to live.
For legal purpose, this comment is of course written with satirical intent. In no way is it meant to condone murder or any other acts of violence or illegal activities with intent to claim ownership of property.
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u/TraditionAvailable32 3d ago
"with intent to claim ownership of property."
But otherwise you still support murder, right?
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u/FlyingKittyCate 3d ago
My lawyer advices me to invoke my right to stay silent.
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u/Flobberplop 3d ago
It is very superstitious to have a law like that. People die all the time in many places. It is ridiculous to think that this makes a property less valuable. Why would it? Spirits hanging around? Ghosts going "boo"? Poltergeists?
To me it would be much worse if somebody has lived there previously who smoked.
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u/vaarsuv1us 3d ago
I just moved into the house of a chainsmoking old lady who died. I now realize I never asked if she died at home or in a hospital , that will never be something that pops up in my head. a complete non issue.
As for the smoke smell, I painted the walls and ceiling with special anti nicotine paint, and I don't smell anything now.
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u/WalloonNerd 3d ago
We just assume that a lot of previous owners died there, because that what happened in the past: people died at home
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u/TrademarkHomy 3d ago
Not just in the past, plenty of people are still cared for at home until they pass away, when possible.
I don't know how normal this is, but when my grandfather passed away from cancer a while ago he was home, and his body stayed in the house until the funeral.
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u/Other_Clerk_5259 3d ago
Once my parents' house had a random saturday afternoon visitor; some guy who'd grown up in the house and was reminiscing. We invited him in and he knew a little more of the families who'd lived before it. He didn't bother pointing out which bedrooms had had someone die in (the answer is probably 'all', and either way, it is boring) but he did tell us in which rooms the two suicides had happened, and what field the deadly farming accident.
Said house was regretfully torn down, but we still laugh about it.
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u/pfooh 3d ago
More in general: It's good to realize that the Dutch are very practical when it comes to death. Dying at home is, like giving birth at home, maybe not the 'standard' anymore, but still the preferred way by many. When you're old, and it's time to go, it's perceived better to do that relaxed in your own home, surrounded by relatives, instead of in a hospital bed with some tubes and machines to keep you alive a couple of days longer.
That ideal isn't an option in every situation, but it still shows how relaxed people are about death.
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u/ModParticularity 3d ago
Its a non issue, and you don't have to inform tenants about something like that.
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u/OGablogian 3d ago
I'd assume a few people have died here, old building that was once part of a convent. I've always kinda liked the idea that others had lives here before me, and will probably do so after me.
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u/BrewThemAll 3d ago
Nobody cares, and let me ruin some of the jokes made here: you won't get a discount for it either.
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u/Probablynotapredator 3d ago
I used to work at a social housing corporation. Generally people don't care. It does happen some times that some died and was unnoticed for a few days, weeks or even a few months. I would not disclose that information to new tenants. It's not really their business.
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u/cl1xor 3d ago
Interesting, i used to live in a very old house (1648) where a lot of stuff must had happened. Also in that particular house apparently some of the first japanese people live ever outside of Japan.
To answer the question, normally you are not aware of what happened in any house so it won’t be an issue. However in my particular case i do believe there were some spiritual aspects of it what i sensed (by lack of better word)
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u/Poekie70 3d ago
Never heard of such a thing. Neighbours/other people told me the previous tenant killed himself there. After I moved in. I dont care, place was clean and no ghost, so ... ok, bad for him. Shit happens. I lived in a apartment complex where a guy was killed, cut in pieces and then dumped by the highway (we found out because there was a police reconstruction). Few weeks later, new people in there.
If you're into ghosts or bad vibes, you have have to ask yourself if something happened there. Can't imagine they offer you lower rent for that.
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u/Winkington 3d ago
I live on the Roman border. Luckily nobody died in this area in the last 10.000 years.
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u/sjolmers 3d ago
I live on 'de Harmsdobbe', and it is called like that because two Boys, cousins, both named Harm, drowned in the pont behind my house. On the picture you see the pont and my barn, which is still there. harmsdobbe
So, to answer the question, I don't care about this.
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u/vaarsuv1us 3d ago
Most of our (native) population doesn't believe in supernatural entities anymore, so it's not an issue here.
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u/MissMoows 3d ago
The previous owner of our house was murdered here 4 years before we bought it. Apparently she was stabbed by hear boyfriend inside the house, and later found in the backyard by the neighbour.
After that the daughter tried to sell the house but couldn't. It's a small town and people knew what had happened and didn't want the house. She ended up selling it to a corporation who rented it out for a few years. When the tenants left they put the house up for sale and that's when we bought it. It had been for sale for a while so we got a good price on it. They never told us about the murder. We found out later after we signed the contact from friends who live nearby. It didn't bother us much since we were just happy to find a house. But to spook people I sometimes tell them that every now and then we feel a cold draft by our ankles.
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u/Tenocticatl 3d ago
Not really. I read that thing about Japan and my first thought was "that sounds like a sweet deal". People die, what are you going to do? Just light some firecrackers at the doors before moving in, to chase off spirits.
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u/IAmNotAWoodenDuck 3d ago
Unless the murderer is still at large and thought to be a neighbour... No, it wouldn't scare me.
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u/Key-don 3d ago
I'm sure the cultural differences stand out a lot. You can add this one to the list. There are no laws regarding the events that took place in property. Although some individuals might be superstitious, most people don't really care, so even if there were such laws I dont feel like it would affect the price. Some friends of mine actually bought a house with some dark history (Im not sure, but I believe a child was murdered by one of the parents), but it didn't really affect the price of the property, although some locals might have steered clear from that particular house.
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u/ItsMeishi 3d ago
I mean.. is there any place in NL where someone hasnt died (a horrible death)? I suppose it depends on how far back in history you're willing to go, so how many years need to pass before we stop caring?
But yeah, no such discounts here in the Netherlands. Probably for the best because people are desperate enough for housing so if they can 'help' clear out a family it would speed things along, lol.
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u/Old_Idea4566 3d ago
I think most people don't care. When I moved into the appartment I am currently in, my ill downstairs neighbour passed away about a year later. When the new people moved in at some point the asked what happened to the previous tennants, so I told them he passed away in the house.
The paused for a bit, said "Aha" and went on with their days.
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u/benbever 3d ago
This is a thing in Japanese horror movies. Dutch don’t care about that. Pretty much anybody would jump in on the lower rent, even if it was just 1%, and not care about dead bodies, as long as they’re removed before you move in.
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u/friso1100 3d ago
I don't think I ever heard anyone be worried about that. Maybe for some edge cases like murder that people may be uncomfortable but otherwise I don't think so. Besides there are a lot of old homes here. Especially in city centers. For those it's quite likely someone died in them at some point due to old age. But it's not like those homes are cheaper thanks to that (i wish, homes are so expensive here)
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u/BobienDeBouwert 3d ago
We can’t afford to be that picky.
At least one person has died in my house, and he has been laid out until the funeral in the exact same spot where I usually lay chilling on my couch.
And it’s fine. Most older houses have had dead people in them. And dead pets. All hospital beds have had dead people in them.
You need to make peace with death being a part of life.
As for the spiritual sense of someone having died in exactly that spot: that’s not even true, either. The earth is drawing circles around the sun in dazzling speed and on a constantly varying path. The spot where the former inhabitant died, is technically somewhere on the other side of the sun.
Just out of curiosity though: how do they deal with elderly home facilities in Japan? Do they demolish them every time an older person dies?
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u/aagjevraagje 3d ago edited 3d ago
Only if we have to deal with biohazzards , otherwise no not really it's kind of assumed someone died in a older house at one point anyway.
We're also cool with old churches having people burried inside the church.
Death in kind of inevitable, there's some calvinist predeterministic stuff going on that's influenced the broader culture maybe but the neighbouring countries don't seem to care either.
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u/Hapankaali 3d ago
Had a neighbour who killed himself. There were new tenants not long after that. Doubt they got any kind of discount.
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u/koensch57 3d ago
We have specialized "deep cleaning" companies that clean out crimescenes, stains in concrete etc.
We can not afford to loose a house.
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u/ABrutalistBuilding 3d ago
Not really. We are in a housing crisis so every free home is one. Another interesting difference as far as I understood is that house prices here go up instead of down over time.
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u/ornithoptermanOG 3d ago
Dutch brokers be like: fixer-upper for the real handyman/funeral director.
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u/Fit_Independence_124 3d ago
It’s not legally obligated to report a murder or otherwise non-natural death in a house.
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u/Drie_Kleuren 3d ago
Professional cleaning companies and everything make sure to get it cleaned after someone dies. Basically it just turns into a new place when the next person rents it.
Also with the major housing crisis here and rents going over the roof, I don't think this is a thing here.
I wouldn't really mind if someone had died where I lived. It's my place now, I wouldn't really care about it. All the stuff is gone, there is nothing that reminds it of death or something. Its all my own stuff.
But I live in a newly built apartment block. I am the first to live here. And I will probably live here for a long time. Idk if I live here until I die. But who knows...
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u/Acceptable_Orange624 3d ago
If it's rented they'll find some way to make you pay extra for that here.
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u/_bones__ 3d ago
Depends on how they died. Random violent intrusion, carbon monoxide poisoning, house collapse? I'm going to have some questions.
Old age or accident? Shit happens, when can I move in?
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u/Fabricati_Diem_Pvn 3d ago
As long as the death fluids haven't leaked into the floor/ceiling, it's all good.
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u/Kiekerr 3d ago
A family member moved into a rental apartment where someone had been dead for over a week. They basically renovated the whole place; flooring, paint, disinfection. Pretty sure the price was the same as the apartments around but no one wanted to rent it because the whole village knew what happened. Family member was happy getting a freshly re-done place for normale pricing.
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u/Beflijster 3d ago
As long as the stains are cleaned up we're good. My sister used to own a house built in the 1600's and I guess people must have died in there but nobody cares.
Dutch culture is not big on ghost stories; that is more an Anglo thing. And in Christianity, spirits are supposed to go to the afterlife and never come back.
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u/shaakunthala 3d ago edited 3d ago
When it comes to buying such a house, one issue is that heirs could sometimes just get away with "we didn't live here, so we don't know" with the questions about leaks, cracks, and even asbestos. It's worse in a seller-dominated market.
Other than that, during the last days of the decreased previous homeowners you cannot expect any kind of maintenance.
As the buyer you accept this risk.
If you hear strange noises in the night, it's almost certainly the ventilation grilles.
Edit: my comment mostly applies to situations of passing away alone.
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u/MicrochippedByGates 3d ago edited 3d ago
Not unless they left a stink that just won't leave, or if they died from toxic fumes because the house was built on a pool of mercury or something. Other than that, I wouldn't mind and I don't think anyone else would.
We also have a lot of old houses. 30s houses are sort of popular right now because they're still somewhat affordable. But with a house that old, odds are someone died in them. From what I've heard, that's much less a thing in Japan, where houses tend to lose value until they're eventually worthless and torn down before something new is built. The concept of owning an old house would be much bigger here, as a result.
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u/PresumedSapient 3d ago
We don't care as long it was a natural death. If it was violent it probably made national news and people will be a bit more hesitant... but not enough to have it affect the price.
The first cleaning would probably be extra thorough.
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u/MiJo1987 3d ago
I once saw someone being carried outside in a black bodybag, a week later a couple moved in… I don’t think people tell if someone died in a house
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u/jumboshrimpboat 3d ago
It's mostly a personal matter I think.
A girl died in my childhood bedroom years before I was even born or before we even moved there, it was odd to learn that happened.
My brother had the collapse that led to his passing away in the room next to it.
People live and die.
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u/applepies64 3d ago
I had hand stamps on my wall. Social housing. It could have meant two things. Also weird stains on the wall
I wish i could be picky
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u/Terrible_Beat_6109 3d ago
If the person has been discovered after a few months, laying dead in the house. That would be a dealbreaker for me. Anything else isn't a problem for me. Ghosts need to pay rent or gtfo.
I've also lives close (300 meters) across a cemetery. Didn't bother me at all, no bad luck or weird things haha.
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u/Lonely-Corner-2722 3d ago
I don't think there is a legal obligation to disclosure of death, not sure if this was always been the case tho. Old familiy friend told me years ago that in some parts of Germany (might not be aplicable anymore) telling new tendants/buyers was obligated and would sink the house price.
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u/Pretty-Imagination91 3d ago
https://www.vastgoedbs.nl/nieuws/verkoper-verzweeg-vorige-bewoner-weken-dood-huis-gelegen/
Depends on how long the person had been dead. Also on the smell and damage.
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u/Wardinary 3d ago
I live in a house that's 400 years old. I'd be amazed if only 1 person died here.
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u/nonsignifierenon 3d ago
The body could still be there and half the population would still wanna move in with this housing market
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u/casualredditor43 3d ago
a bunch of our homes, especially in historic city centers, prob have had like 6 people die in them.
they get sold for millions sometimes lmao
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u/LucFranken 3d ago
Well, it depends. I actually bought a house around 15 years ago (and lived there for 13 years until I moved again) where someone died and was only found after several weeks during the summer. The price was ok, but not spectacularly low. Of course the info that someone laid dead in the property wasn’t in the brochure. First visit: having a weird ozone smell seemed off, but wasn’t too bad. Why does the grout look and feel a bit wet near the walls. Was there a leak? Answer was given. That’s where the person was found. Me actually touching the grout suddenly felt gross. It was profoundly cleaned though, at least that was mentioned. Second visit: a more thorough inspection so I’d know what else needed cleaning. All the flooring needs to go for sure. Found a company that did this kind of cleaning for a living. Got a pretty hefty quote for the work.
Third visit (does that even still exist in the current housing market?) I was upfront with all the additional cost, although a bit exaggerated, and deducted that from my offer. Put in some further deductions because of not informing me before touching the grout.
Sold. So now I owned a house that needed some real cleaning. Got it relatively cheap so there was some budget thankfully. Floor had to go, even the concrete below needed sealing. All metal door-frames had to go because they were filled with larvae. Skirting out. Everything needed to be re-painted with special sealing paint. Pretty much everything needed to be renewed. The hefty quote wasn’t enough to cover all cleaning costs, but in the end the house was smell-free.
Only once I still smelled something odd, still not entirely sure, when I was connecting cables in the crawl space.
Would I buy a house like that again? Absolutely not. Was I happily living in the house for 13 years without any concerns. Absolutely. Did we make fun of any weird sound in the house being the previous owner? Hell yeah!
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u/Educational_Path7689 3d ago
To be fair, I think people in the comments overestimate how many people die at home and not in hospitals etc.
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u/mr_sesquipedalian 3d ago
I grew up in a house where the previous owner was murdered on the toilet. As a kid I would always tell anybody that would listen, because that was obviously crazy exciting.
So, nah don't care.
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u/EveryDayheyhey 3d ago
I read on reddit that in the US people have to disclose if a house is supposedly haunted. I've seen it come up a few times and when asked the posters acted like this was really normal. Haunting aren't even real.
I like to think we're overall too levelheaded for stuff like this. Then again, someone was murdered in a house I pass very often and I do think about it every time I see the house. And I'm not sure I'd want to live there because of it. Maybe it depends on the type of murder. This was a random home invasion. If it was something personal to the people living there I might feel less creeped out somehow.
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u/nightwatch_admin 3d ago
As long as there is no knocking, wailing and/or moving furniture in the dark of night .. we should be fine.
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u/Accomplished_Low2564 3d ago
"Live and let die" or: "de een zijn dood is de ander zijn brood". We are grateful someone died so it offers us the oppertunity to buy the home.
It's all a matter of perspective actually.
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u/blarkul 3d ago
We bought a house this year where its previous owner died in. Old lady, widow. Her son inherited the house and sold it. Do I mind? Nah, people die and the older the house is the likelier it is that someone died in it (I lived in a house from the 16th century my whole childhood so I’m sure a couple of people died where I lived). I might mind it a bit if someone was recently murdered in a house.
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u/WanderingAlienBoy 3d ago
My parents currently live in an apartment wherethe former owner died, they're fine with it.
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u/Vier3 3d ago
There is no requirement to say anything about previous residents, in fact it is forbidden to do that even.
Like you say, in older homes many people will have died (statistically already), although since a while most people do not die at home, but many die at hospices instead.
Seeking out such homes to get cheaper rent is not a Dutch thing. Sorry.
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u/daaniscool 3d ago
From what I learned by travelling to Japan, your people seem a bit superstitious. For example, you guys like buying good luck charms for traffic and work succes etc. Dutch people are the very opposit in this regard and are generally not that spiritual.
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u/Motor-Bid-8224 3d ago
I’ve lived in a studio in the center of a city where the previous owner was executed by a schizophrenic man in his garage. I was well aware of it and moved out when the murderer got released from prison.
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u/Adorable-Extent3667 3d ago
Some that are looking for a house are even manifesting it daily. Generally, Dutch people don't care regardless the circumstances, so here it's the same. It's just a few walls with a door and it keeps the rain out.
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u/CHERLOPES 3d ago
Honey, there is such a shortage of houses in the real estate market that there could even be a body buried in the backyard that people rented.
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u/Sarcas666 3d ago
My house is a couple of hundred years old. I’m sure a bunch of people died in here. I’m sure a bunch of people were conceived in here. I’m sure a bunch of people were born in here. Death, it’s just part of life.
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u/rutgercjwolf 3d ago
Nah, not really. Visible chalk lines might be a reason to negotiate lower rent though.