There was a house in my neighborhood where an older lady died and her family didn't notice her missing for three weeks. By the time they found her the body was badly decomposed. The house went up for sale, and people got a good price for a beautiful house. The problem was, from what we heard, she had fallen out of a chair in a corner of the room and the carpet and walls were infested with maggots. When the purchasers found out about there being a dead body in there for three weeks, they backed out. It took about a year to sell the house and they ended up stripping the interior to foundation and studs and putting up new drywall and flooring before the new owner would close escrow.
As for me, if I found a good house in a nice neighborhood for a bargain I wouldn't really care what happened there as long as there were no residual cooties for me to deal with.
I'm in the process of selling one house and looking for a new one, whatever gets me a discount in a declining market is fine by me. The more hammered, the better. I'm going to replace everything anyway.
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