Friend Looking a home at Fremont. He likes the home, but the owner, aged appx 75, died in the home two years back.
The home is nicely updated and does not have any issue, except this natural death at home.
What is the issue with natural death at home?
Ghosts and bodily fluids
The home was locked more than two years, not rented after death.
Depends on circumstances of death. If not collected immediately, fluids under floorboards… Never getting rid of that unless you demo the whole room
GHOST… no no no
my friend’s condo has a ghost, he and his kids always see him ( a little boy)
after they move and sold it didn’t follow them to the new house =)
I love hawaii… So, once I get to @70-75 I’m planning to move there to die so that I don’t ever leave 
I think you only need to disclose death up to 2 years. I wonder why the seller doesn’t just wait it out?
Personally, I wouldn’t have a problem with a home where there has been an old age death. As far as body fluids, replace the flooring => problem solved. If you’re really worried about human body fluids, I wouldn’t buy a house that has had young kids in it for that matter.
The homes around here are old. Any 60 year old home has seen some body fluids and lots of other issues would creep out any germaphobe.
A bigger problem for me would be that it sat empty for 2 years. I’d triple check that there isn’t a rodent/pest problem. I know some folks that bought a home in Sunnyvale from a foreign investor that left it empty for 5 years. It had been completely overrun by rats. The smell couldn’t be removed. HVAC had to be completely replaced, attic gutted and redone.
Its three years, with an exception that you don’t have to disclose if someone dies of AIDS. Go figure.
I heard construction workers are absolutely filthy, but I never really believed some of the hyperbole
In terms of Asian superstition and such, I guess is what you are after? None, natural death. Hey, people die all the time. Also, not like he died really young. If your friend is not convinced, have him have a buddhist monk come by and bless the home to make him feel better.
If someone committed suicide in a house, fuuuuugetaboutit…
My realtor’s client was breaking up with her boyfriend and kicked him out. She was in the process of selling the house. The BF comes to her house one day and shoots himself. Heck of a way to take revenge!
W O W ! ! ! ! ! !
(During the Open House: Oh, don’t mind the chalk body outline)
I saw the house where Susan Polk killed her husband in Orinda…It was on the market about ten years ago…She is eligible for parole next year…If I owned it I would be a little nervous about her returning…She is insane…
I don’t worry about dead people…it is the crazy live ones I worry about…
The KKK gives me the heebie jeebies… that’s why I would never invest in Ku-Ku Klan territory… also probably one of the many reasons prices are so low in those parts
I remember considering one home with natural death, a storybook house that looked like it came from a fairy tale. But alas, no deal as the disclosures revealed tons of deferred maintenance, same as many of the old houses which came up in my search years ago. The owner was probably too old to care for it in the end. Some other houses I saw were neglected or outright abandoned by the original owners or their kids after they passed.