A Fit for Halloween Survey — Buying a Haunted House

Rocket Mortgage did a home shopping survey and found 65% of us would think seriously about buying a haunted house. Of that 65%, a scary 39% say they’d definitely do it and 26% say they’re open to the idea.

Of the 1,037 people responding to the survey, a frightening 23% say they are currently living in a haunted house and 13% say they’ve lived in one. And only 18% say they’d bag things and sell a haunted house if they found out it was haunted.

And how do you handle living in one? Of those surveyed, 41% say they’d try to make friends with the ghost, or whatever entity it is haunting the home, and they’d dig into the reasons the place is haunted.

The 30% living in haunted homes they say “might be haunted” say they haven’t experienced any hauntings personally. Of those that have:

• 64% have felt a strong presence
• 61% hear mysterious noises
• 49% have heard unaccountable footsteps
• 37% have seen apparitions
• 24% have seen objects move on their own
• 43% said the ghosts have been friendly
• 20% found them mischievous
• 18% said they were spooky
• 8% found them to be angry

People shopping for a new home and encountering one that is haunted want a deal.

• 40% want 40% to 59% off the asking price
• 29% would take the home for a 20% to 39% price cut
• 15% say they’d take it for 20% off

There’s more:

• If the place is totally creepy, it’s no deal
• So is a death on the property that caused the haunting
• But a haunted house next to a cemetery is no big deal
• All that said, a big discount for the home gets a sign on the dotted-line

Once moving in, some will want to do away with the entity haunting the place.

• 37% say they’d do a ghost eviction with salt, sage or an exorcism
• 40% say they’d just cohabitate

Source link: New York Post — https://bit.ly/4htJXqq