Hmmm.....
Time to sue some sex offenders.
Land speculators could use this information to their advantage.
“One study found that a sex offender within one-tenth of a mile of your home makes your house sell for about 17% less than comparable homes without a sex offender in the neighborhood.
Are you guys really dumb enough to swallow this? If so, I’ll show you how smoking causes trailer parks.
This has been a point I have made on numerous occassions.
Let’s say a judge orders that a sex offender must place signs on his property alerting neighbors to his presence. This has happened before.
Say an immoral Real Estate broker (Lord knows there are plenty of those) decides to team up with the Sex Offender, and rents him property in a nice neighborhood. If I were doing this, the rent would be ‘free’ as I would propose a partnership. So, bright shiny neon signs go up all along the property saying “Convicted Child Molester living at this residence”.
What does property value do in the surrounding ‘x’ blocks do? You can’t sell your home for any price. Basically, innocent people who have to sell their homes will be forced to either take a fraction of the home’s value, or go bankrupt.
Meanwhile, immoral Real Estate Broker buys up the homes in the neighborhood at highly reduced prices. He then moves his Sex Offender partner to a nicer, more affluent neighborhood and while home prices plummet there, they rebound where the pervert used to live.
Mr. Immoral Real Estate Broker sells the homes he purchased in the old neighborhood, makes a financial killing and prepares to buy houses in the more affluent neighborhood.
There is nothing to prevent this sort of thing happening, heck it might be happening as I type this post. It’s perfectly legal, highly lucrative and there is nothing you can do to stop it from happening to you.
Where can you buy a home without a sex offender living nearby?
If a Sex Offender is moving to your neighborhood, your home’s value is the last thing you should be worried about.
I am living this. A man one block up from me was recently convicted of an offense with a 16 year old boy, sentenced to ten year’s probation and listed as a moderate risk. Color all of us shocked. We had no clue. Somehow you think these people will have a ‘P’ for pervert stamped on their foreheads. His name and address now come up on the state registry. Two home sales in our subdivision have fallen through since he was registered. We are all sick on more than one level.
Yep, it's a problem!
Have you ever LOOKED at the database? Those guys are everywhere! Hard to imagine getting too far away, even in “good” neighborhoods.
I just pray that the ones near me are the ones who only got busted in college for mooning.
I wonder how much the unsolved murder of a sex offender near my home would affect it’s value. Just kidding, of course, but it is an interesting hypothetical to ponder.
Nowadays folks, get it through to your heads, every adult male, certainly every white adult male, is either a registered sex offender, an unregistered sex offender, or a potential sex offender. Thank people like Andrea Dworkin and Catherine McKinnon and the sensationalizing media.