Pa. Homeowner Sues Seller Over Home's Bloody Past

abc/yahoo ^ | January 28, 2013 | SUSANNA KIM

[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.

[JRandomFreeper]

It's just stored up there to keep it out of my way, and make the antenna parts somewhat available. ;)

It is a pine box. A pretty pine box. I built it as part of a ploy to get some extra tool money into the family budget, years and years ago. And because I would eventually need it. Best investment in the family budget....

My time isn't up to me. But I trust the Hands that my time is in. ;)

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

No. I'm a regular cook, not a pastry chef, or baker.

/johnny

[TexasTransplant]

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

I’m with you

TT

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Enjoy

[ri4dc]

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!

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

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.

[Average Al]

"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!

[Average Al]

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!

[morphing libertarian]

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.

[lowbridge]

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.

[1217Chic]

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

[Batman11]

PFL

[FreedomPoster]

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