How to Sell a Haunted House

And you think you've been having a tough time selling your home ...

By Geoff Williams, FrontDoor.com | Published: 10/21/2008

If you still cannot sell your stigmatized home, slashing the price could make it more appealing.

Step 4: Rest in Peace After Last-Resort Tactics

If you're quite desperate, you might even want to consider changing your house's address if it's been severely stigmatized by a murder, says Michael Soon Lee, a real estate broker and consultant for 30 years in Dublin, Calif. He says that was done at the house where child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was killed.

And if there are some serious concerns among a jittery public that something wicked might be living in your den, lying low and waiting to attack a hapless new homeowner?

"You may have to bring the price down, way down," says Nicholas, who suggests going as low as 20 percent to 25 percent off the selling price. "You may have to make it attractive for an investor, not for someone who will live there, but someone who will want to scrape the house and build anew."

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