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How much do you discount an offer for murder?

This is a real question we asked our realtor this week.

A story with twists and turns ahead. Started looking for homes in a popular area of the US. Find a cute home, put in our first offer, goes 100k over, cash. Sad, but not surprised, we regroup and look again. Find a 10x nicer home, cooler area, twice as big. Assemble offer and send to realtor. Start googling the neighborhood in more detail. Find an open homicide case for the town... oh no... same street... oh no... across the street from the property. Shit. Do we pull out? No...we are pretty tough... but we now don’t feel comfortable going over asking price. Call realtor and ask how much to discount the offer for murder? 25k seem reasonable? We laugh nervously on the phone. But then actually really have to decide this number for real. Start panic researching the murder in this tiny town. Find the private town Facebook group. Wait to get access. Turns out guy murdered was a huge jerk, like big time, violent, for awhile, to random people in town, unprovoked. Lots of comment threads pointing to many who “plan to go to his house and solve the problem since the police aren’t.” Not making this shit up or exaggerating in the slightest. Not saying he deserved it, of course, we’re not monsters. RIP. But in terms of our own safety we decide welp.. vigilantes justice, I guess? Put in lower offer, no contingencies, eff it. Maybe we need to let others know about the murder to help our offer? But still, RIP. We’re pretty certain we won’t be even close. Somehow get into the top two?! It’s us, no contingencies... and a contingent offer 50k more. We go up 25k, cause why not, now we’ve decided the murder was fine I guess. They verbally accept our offer.....! And 1 hr later switch to the higher offer.

TLDR Found out about an open homicide across from the house we were offering on. Had surprisingly little regard for this due to the insanity of the market right now(or the low bar for our own personal safety). Tried to solve homicide using FB like a truecrime podcaster. Went in fast and loose with a non contingency offer, still lost. Even murder can’t slow down this market.

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