When you go into a home - have you ever sensed there was trouble there?

OH YES!

Both good/positive and more unpleasant energy is stored in spaces. Some folks tend to be just more in tune to this than others.

No I've never sensed bad vibes from a home and two of the seven homes I've purchased actually have had people die in them (one an older woman died of cancer, one a teenager committed suicide). We didn't find out about the suicide til after we'd moved in and the neighbor informed us, but in the 7 years we lived in the home, never had a bad vibe. Maybe some are more sensitive, but not me.

I'm a sucker for homes with "sad" vibes (i.e. I've been neglected and deserve better).....makes me want to buy it and treat it right with a whole house renovation! :-0

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When you go into a home - have you ever sensed there was trouble there?

ABSOLUTELY!!! One home I owned in the late 1970's just felt a little "off" when we looked at it. We loved the lay out, the style, etc. so purchased it. As long as we lived there, we never felt truly "alone", if you know what I mean. We later found out there had been a fire years before and a little girl had died there.

On the other hand, my current home feels "good" - no problems. And my daughter-in-law told me the house they purchased 6 months ago felt like home the minute they walked in to look at it. No regrets there, thankfully!!

So I would have to say that houses DO absorb certain "energies" (for lack of a better word) from the previous owners. JMO

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It does not necessarily have to be a death or spirit to feel "vibes". Many of us are empaths or very sensitive to emotional energy. Some people can shield themselves from it better than others.

Have you ever walked into a room after a heated argument, and the people have gone, but the energy in the room is still charged?

Some may not agree, but I truely feel the longer emotional energy is fed into an area, the stronger and longer lasting it is. Both types, what is considered positive and negative.
That said, there are cures for reducing or ridding the negative too.

I have to say a big yes. Our first house was vacant when we bought it. It was cheap, realtor owned (a trade in on a condo) and they paid our down payment and most closing costs. The place just had an off vibe, thought it was me. First clue was when we got the deed, it was lot 13. OK told myself I was being silly. But then one of the neighbors told me that the house was sold because the owner (a single woman) had found out she had a serious heart problem and might not have long to live. The icing on the cake was 3 years later, I was taking my kids for a walk and we were in the subdivision in front of ours (older homes). A lady was in her front yard and I commented on her lovely flowers. She was the one who told me of the history of the land. It was just open land with a lake in the middle, someone drowned in the lake and the owners filled it up and (they were home builders) built my subdivision. And my house was in the middle of where the lake was. That was it, we had nothing but bad luck the whole time we lived there. I breathed a sigh of relief when it sold. Unfortunately the house was bought by the parents of a young mom and her husband. Not long after moving in the guy had a poker game in the kitchen, there was an argument and one of his friends shot him. So yes, a bad house.

I believe so. I think many of us can pick on emotional energy such as furniture or even from people.

I learned years ago I am sensitive to such things.I guess I am an empathetic spirit.

I've heard of people being uneasy after they have purchased an antique for instance and later found out the the item had a history attached to it and the spirit was still around it.

I've been in grocery stores and such and felt an energy from someone that I could tell was troubled or sad.I might engage them in a conversation(or often it's them who engage me) and they end up telling me their whole life story in a Reader's Digest condensed version.

Sometimes the energy isn't from the house but the property it sits on. There is a history.Not necessarily a death spirit but just an energy.

I'm convinced where I live now natives roamed this land.I just feel the energy around here and from learning the history of this area know it is more than possible.

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I guess some people are really more sensitive to things (like me). I never felt comfortable in that house, even the first time I walked in. But I just thought I was being silly. Now I know better, if a house or apartment feels off, I walk away. I also don't like empty houses, even though we bought 2. A home that is lived in is much warmer somehow. And I like to get a feel for the house by meeting the present owners.

I experienced the bad vibe thing this week. I tagged along with a friend looking at homes in an older neighborhood. One house we entered had a creepy feeling - poorly maintained, dirty, lots of weird junk sitting around (ceramic skulls, crucifixes painted black on the walls, etc...) We both wanted to leave immediately - something weird was going on there.

Back in 1985 when we were looking for our second house, our realtor took me to see one that she hadn't previewed (which was unusual). As soon as we set foot on the property, I knew there was something very wrong. I tried to brush it aside, and when we opened the front door and looked in my realtor said, "I really don't think we want to go in here, do you?" I heartily agreed and off we went. We talked about it in the car, and she had had the exact same feelings even before we opened the door. Trust your gut instinct; that's what it's for!

Then when we DID find our second house, I knew right away. (It was listed as a rambler, for lack of a better description, and we were living in a rambler and I didn't want one. Turns out it was a midcentury with some '50s subtle contemporary flair. I knew as soon as we went through it that it was THE one, and we bought it! We would still be there except DS3 came along and we weren't expecting him!

Coniston - Your skull house visit reminds me of a funny story.

Some ten years ago, I met a buyer at a property. Kind of a biker dude, with lots of tattoos, leather jacket.and his t-shirt said something obnoxious....you get the picture.

No problem...however I didn't have him pre-qualified.didn't know who this guy was...from Adam..and the home was empty.

Once inside, the buyer, Mr. Biker, hung around the living room looking at some built-in custom shelves for like five minutes, and then he looks up at me and says happily ... "these would be great for my skull collections. "Sensing"... my wild dash to the door..he immediately said... "game skulls".. you know.. animals? I said oh... yes, of course.. (nearly losing my bladder over the incident). I was waiting for him to whip our his fava beans and ask me where the stove was!!

He started laughing and said to me you look like you saw a ghost..and he proceeded to tell me of his collection - hunting wild animals.. etc.



Wrote the contract, closed on schedule.

However finding a unique skull to bring him as a closing gift was a little wierd. Title agent got a little freaked when he opened my gift -- but he loved it ... an alligator skull.

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"The place just had an off vibe, thought it was me."

That is EXACTLY what I thought too, jameysmom, regarding the house we purchased in the late 1970's.

Whenever I would come home and it was dark or go to a part of the house that was dark, I always expected to see somebody standing there when I turned the light on. Thought it was just me till my husband made a comment about it and came to find out he had been feeling the same thing! I did manage to find the people that we purchased the house from and asked the lady if she had ever felt anything odd about the house. She said she hadn't, but did tell me that she and her husband did nothing but fight while they were living there - she told me that was VERY strange because they had ALWAYS gotten along before that and they were getting along great after they sold the house to us.

BTW, we only lived there about 18 months. Wonder what, if anything, has gone on with the people that have lived there since?

real estate lady, just curious...since you asked the question...have you found this to be true with clients and/or yourself?

yes-both

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REL, my area requires sellers to sign a psychological distress document (something like that), is it the same for your area?

really? I have never heard of that./..tell me more..

I, too, am very sensitive of energies. Sometimes I really have to bite my tongue, when a buyer loves a home, and I am feeling uneasy about the vibes of the home. I have met "few" people who are in tune with "home energies".
It seem we have some in tune posters here...

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I once asked a client in my early days of real estate.. what would she like me to get her as a closing gift for her next day closing... she asked me to have the home blessed with holy water by a priest. It costs me $35.00 in the 1970's.

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really? I have never heard of that./..tell me more..

I'll try to find out exactly what it's called, but when we sold our house a few years ago we had to sign a document that stated that our house had never been psychologically distressed, and that was defined by death on the premises that wasn't by natural causes (but I don't think it covered just death). And then when we were looking for our current house, we made an offer on a property where that document was included in the sellers package.

I think there are almost always some types of successful "cures" or treatments to help this issue?

We once looked at and considered making an offer on a home, (early 80's) someone else had a contingency offer and first refusal option. It was a house that felt wrong when you were in it, but it seemed such a good deal on paper?
It seemed a sturdy home, great neighborhood and a great price...but needed a lot of cosmetic work...and there was just something "off" about it? Our realtor was quiet, but when we were going to try for it, the first offer was taken. She said was so relieved for us. There were two bankruptcies, two bad divorces, and one owner hung herself in the garage. Seemed every family had bad luck in that home.

Several years ago, I went to a yard sale there and after talking to her, found the current owner and family very happy. They had done a ton of work, and it seemed a very different home? They were the second owners after the prior lost their jobs and moved away. They had lived there 15 years, and she had the home blessed, smudged with sage, and completely redone inside. I truely think she and her family finally turned it around.