How would you feel?

[MPfiveengineer]

This is so damn cliché it is sad. So as many of you know I am in Seattle until at least July for a job opportunity. Last Saturday I was out in the driveway of the house I am renting here washing my car when a neighbor came over from across the street. I stopped washing the car and immediately went over to shake the guy’s hand and introduce myself. I was pleased to meet him because all the other neighbors have kind of kept away from us. We went through the normal pleasantries for about 5 minutes (where are you from, what do you do, what brings you here, etc…) and I mentioned to him that I was glad to finally meet a neighbor because the neighborhood had seemed somewhat standoffish towards us. He paused for a second and said “Well you know what happened here right?” to which I replied no.

Anyway it turns out the previous tenant before me decided to swallow a .357 magnum in the living room. I guess I now know why my neighbors were somewhat standoffish. I checked with the Washington State Tenants Union and there are no landlord disclosure laws for suicide or homicide. I think if I really wanted to I could get out of my lease but as some of you may be asking, “what does it matter?”. Well I am going to live with this a while and it seems to be bothering Cassie less than it does me but ever since Saturday I see everything in the house that is not mine with a kind of dark sadness. Am I just being a sissy?

[Wulf202]

Am I just being a sissy?

I work in the apartment industry, it happens...

It's creepy, but not quite being a sissy.

[USMC88-93]

Useful response:

Yeah your right that is a little creepy, not sure how I would handle it.

Smart a*s response:

Buy some luminol and explore your house for blood traces. See if they bothered to clean it up well.

[MPfiveengineer]

I have new carpet and paint floor to ceiling. I doubt the Luminol go through paint.

[USMC88-93]

I have new carpet and paint .......................

Oh well it's the thought that counts.

[Wulf202]

I have new carpet and paint floor to ceiling. I doubt the Luminol go through paint.

I had to check.

"Blood will absorb all light and show as black. Blood under paint, luminol will not react. Blood will absorb light shining through the paint and show up as black spots."

http://www.jimtrue.com/school/cjt1111/000032.html

[HunterCO]

My high school buddy sold his house two houses down and across the street from me to a lady that hung her self in it. New people bought it and know about it they don't have a problem with it.

It is up for sale as I type this and my buddy Dave who just got back from Iraq is going to look at it.

People die wether its self inflicted or not really makes no difference as to what location.

Don't be a sissy Ken. [Tooth]

[MPfiveengineer]

I don’t think it would bother me as much if it had happened a few years ago but the fact that there was only about a month and a half between this guy’s head being splattered on the ceiling and me moving in.

Like I said I have new carpet and paint (walls and ceiling) but they did not do the best job cleaning the bathrooms, kitchen, laundry room, closets, and garage. Some of the previous tenants stuff was left in the garage (most of which I threw away when I moved in). If I had known the circumstances I would have made the landlord take care of these if I even rented the house at all. I still don’t know what I am going to say to the landlord. I did call the police and confirm that this really did happen.

[7idl]

we don't have this kind of problem in CO, we're men here! [ROFL3]

c'mon back for a bike ride and make things right with the world ;)

[Ridge]

It might bug me a little bit, but it wouldnt be enought o make me move...now, say, a homicide, that might be a different situation...

[kwando]

so is it true about the suicide rate in WA.

[Ridge]

Well, look at how close they are to the source of all their Blue Screens of Death and knowing there is nothing they can do about it :)

[MPfiveengineer]

I am about 5 miles away from Microsoft WHQ where they employ over 30K people. MS is a big part of why this little 1050 sqft house Zillows at over $400K.

[Delphi]

Well to be honest I would say just get over it... **** happens all over the place and if we start getting to worried about it there would be allot of empty apartments which wouldnt be good... Some guy killed himself, the apartment didnt kill him...

I say just forget about it and dont let it bother ya ;)

[7idl]

I am about 5 miles away from Microsoft WHQ where they employ over 30K people. MS is a big part of why this little 1050 sqft house Zillows at over $400K.


that's a little too close for me.. I'd be tempted every day to leave the office and go over there and ****** slap a programmer or five [Rant2]

[Hoser]

I would be out of there.

[Atrain]

Gotta say I'm with hoser on this one Ken...it would bother me. Not in a "peeing my jammies because there is a ghost sitting on my couch at midnight" way, but in a "constantly thinking about some dude taking his life in my living room" way. It's sad, gives me a nasty mental image, and would disturb my calm in general. I don't know brutha...

[Marlin]

Well, since I have a Morbid sense of humor anyway, All I have to say is,

SISSY BOY



[ROFL1]



Of course, There is always,,,,,,


GHOSTBUSTERS!!!!!!


[Tooth]

[MPfiveengineer]

No ghost, ATrain hit the nail on the head when he spoke about mental image and general calm.

[roman gnome]

I don't think I would look at the room the same way again.

I would rather not have known.[Coffee]