me and my mum are renting a house from a family friend for the next two years whilst im at collage. The only problem is that in January, the house is being put on the market (nothing to do with us, its to do with the council). So i have come up with the plan of making the house seem worse than it really is (the kitchen is already old) and one of my plans is to make the house out like it is haunted by a ghost. I have already worked out that the kitchen tap will turn themselves on when both the bath and sink taps are in full flow.
Any one go any other ideas of making it seem a bit more haunted
Funny ideas are also welcome, lets have some fun!!!
Serious question: if your plan is to reduce the appeal of your home by pretending it’s haunted, are you not relying on someone who already believes in ghosts making a rational decision about what is important to them in a house? Can such a person be counted on to even know what it is they want in property? Can such a person even be counted to dress themselves?
I guess what I’m saying is that this plan has the fatal flaw of relying on someone believing that, when a person dies, they somehow remain around to have a measurable effect on the universe, a hypothesis which is not only false, but will perhaps someday be used as an argument by some advanced alien race to put all surviving humans in a space zoo for our own protection.
Cheap and nasty mini radios from the pound shop tuned into nothing but static. The smaller the better the best for this are the I can suggest would be the headphone type.
Suicide is also a sure-fire ghost making method and also guaranteed to bring the value of the house down.
GRNDL
Yeah, ok, I think we just passed the lines of good taste. And coming from me that says a lot. Seriously.
Here's the deal fonejaker, while you can certainly decrease the actual (or perceived) value of the house, that in itself will have little bearing on the sale. Like the "unsellable car" myth on Mythbusters almost anything will shift if the price is low enough. As a last resort by being gutted or parted out.
Serious question: if your plan is to reduce the appeal of your home by pretending it's haunted, are you not relying on someone who already believes in ghosts making a rational decision about what is important to them in a house? Can such a person be counted on to even know what it is they want in property? Can such a person even be counted to dress themselves?
I guess what I'm saying is that this plan has the fatal flaw of relying on someone believing that, when a person dies, they somehow remain around to have a measurable effect on the universe, a hypothesis which is not only false, but will perhaps someday be used as an argument by some advanced alien race to put all surviving humans in a space zoo for our own protection.
Thommy H
im basically trying to make the house less appealing for a buyer, il tell them that kids use the garden wall as a bench (not any more since i shot them with my paintballgun) and there is constant music being played from next door. (both of these happen)
the haunted stuff i just to make the house a bit more .............. undesirable
I have no idea what the legal climate for the housing market is like in the UK, but I’m guessing it’s not that different from Canada. I’d be wary of doing anything that would mess with the attempted sale of a property. If the real estate agent that’s handling the property gets wind of what you’re doing, and it’s likely they will, you could very easily be facing a lawsuit, even if there isn’t a single prospective buyer that visits the property. Just be careful with your fun.
So here we go.