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Pa. Homeowner Sues Seller Over Home's Bloody Past
abc/yahoo ^ | January 28, 2013 | SUSANNA KIM

Posted on 01/28/2013 6:14:25 PM PST by lowbridge

A Pennsylvania woman has appealed to the state Supreme Court in her suit against a home seller and real estate agent who failed to disclose that a murder-suicide had taken place in the home she purchased.

When Janet Milliken, 59, moved from California after her husband died, she had hoped to start a new life with her two teenage children in Pennsylvania near her family.

She bought a home in Thornton, Pa., for $610,000 in June 2007. She learned a few weeks after she moved in from a next-door neighbor that a murder-suicide had occurred the year before in her home.

She sued the seller and the real estate agent for fraud and misrepresentation, saying they made a "deliberate choice not to disclose the home's recent past," according to a court document.

The trial judge granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants, saying state law does not require agents to disclose such events.

Then in December 2012, a panel of the state appeals court affirmed that decision, though with a nearly split decision.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: pennsylvania
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To: TexasTransplant
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81 posted on 01/28/2013 9:41:53 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Orange1998
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82 posted on 01/28/2013 9:45:11 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

**** “My time isn’t up to me. But I trust the Hands that my time is in. ;)” *****

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83 posted on 01/28/2013 10:11:11 PM PST by TexasTransplant (This needs to go viral http://vimeo.com/52009124 please watch it)
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To: Norm Lenhart

For > I wanna die in my sleep just like ol’ granddad. Not screaming and crying like the passengers in his car.

You Sir, owe me a new keyboard. The funnest thing I’ve read in weeks.
Thanks!


84 posted on 01/28/2013 10:42:37 PM PST by ri4dc (Cut your cable. You'll need the extra dough later on. 'This war is lost!' The worst is yet to come.)
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To: lowbridge

I lived in a haunted apartment one summer, and I must say it was a thoroughly unpleasant experience. I’ve bought two houses since I lived in that creepy, oppressive place, and you bet I did ask if there had been any suicides or anything!

That said, in addition to an official inquiry, people should do their own due diligence before they make an offer on a place. Just walk around to the neighbors, ask how they like living there, ask them what they think of the house you’re thinking about buying. Then listen to what they have to say! People are pretty loquacious.


85 posted on 01/29/2013 12:14:31 AM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: digger48
"they aren’t telling people around here that there’s going to be a bunch of 450 foot windmills within 1250 feet of the home, that are going up in the coming months."

Wow, now that not having to be disclosed is amazing!

86 posted on 01/29/2013 4:57:32 AM PST by Average Al
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To: JRandomFreeper
When I was around 18 I looked at buying a beautiful 1967 T Bird that a man committed suicide in while running it in his garage. I was looking at it in his garage about 5 years after the fact and I just couldn't buy it. I can still see that car vividly in that garage 40 years later!
87 posted on 01/29/2013 5:06:01 AM PST by Average Al
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To: JRandomFreeper

ouch, good looking out for yourself.

I have never heard of someone getting out of prison and showing up at a house, but I don’t know why it’s not a common occurrence.


88 posted on 01/29/2013 11:57:39 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert
I lived in a haunted apartment one summer, and I must say it was a thoroughly unpleasant experience.

Can you share with us some ghost stories? We'd love to hear them.

89 posted on 01/29/2013 2:09:00 PM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: lowbridge

It’s creepy but ghosts may be easier to live with then humans.


90 posted on 01/29/2013 2:31:04 PM PST by 1217Chic
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To: lowbridge

PFL


91 posted on 01/29/2013 9:11:49 PM PST by Batman11 (We came for the chicken sandwiches and a Sweet Tea Party broke out!)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

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