Home of Divorced Couple

[Julie-Ann]

How would you feel about buying a home when the sellers were divorcing?
Today the new neighbours came to show their older children through the house across the street. DH and I were watching them come and go and checking them out- as you do. When I started to wonder - do they know that the couple are divorcing? Do they know of the sadness and anger that has been in that beautiful house?
If I did know I wondered would I feel the need to clear the negative energy out of the house. Be it with a blessing from a Christian priest or a Feng Shui remedy. Of course my DH just laughed at these thoughts but then he is not the sensitive soul that I am.
As we have now had 4 neighbours divorce in 2 years I hope that we are not the negative energy and this couple survive living near us.

[hbfotografic]

I just think there's a bargain to be made

Seriously, so may ppl enter into all sorts of things willy-nilly, and their folly is my gain.
A bickering couple often means a quick sale.

We bought our first home due to a dissolution of assets ( the man owned quite a few properties and died of a brain tumour - I was quite sad when I found out afterwards ) .. the next due to a fall-through of a purchase by another, and the 3rd due to brothers wanting to split and divide the profits. All were private sale, all were under market price, and within 6months of each purchase, the local market went crazy.

Thus, I guess we've profited from the woes of others 3-fold :/

[Elements]

I am better off not knowing, that way its not their cloud hanging over my head.
We had bickering neighbours a few houses ago and the cloud over home was enormous....I am also like you in that respect JA. It does effect my thoughts. NOt a great deal but its there. I suppose similiar to when you were doing up that deceased estate....knowing, keeps it in your head...if you didn't know would it have been easier?
I have a fashionista friend with her own business and she has had both her home and business "cleared" by a guru....I forget what he called himself, but he came and smoked her house out and cleared all the bad spirits and bad karma.....she thinks it worked. Each to their own of course.

[Lanne]

Oh Julie-Ann you are so lovely.

I had a friend who only buys homes where the owners are divorcing or bankrupt or very close to it. .. harsh. cold and very effective. She buys them cheap... because the people just want to cut their losses and go. She looks for furniture marks in the carpet as it indicated someone had taken some furniture with them. She looked for less toothbrushes than you might expect and a lack of toiletries for one partner etc. Her theory was unhappy people didnt take care of the house and work on projects together. meaning there was scope for work and improvements to onsell them... She did very well with this strategy...

I never thought houses could harbour bad energy once the people left.. but we rented one house that was just dreadful... there was something very wrong with it. it looked fine but it was just a BAD house.. with shocking energy and we moved as soon as we could (1 year lease).. one of the worst years we have had.. and we blame it all on the house.

[Elements]

Lanne, I am sooo with you on that....Our rental property prior to purchasing the Reno...was what we kept calling the bad Karma house...We too had to move from the house because of the energy.....
It was a long skinny house and all exits were at one end..The energy flowed in and got stuck was my theory....luckily it was bad or we would have never purchased the reno and been happy again...... my thoughts are always everything happens for a reason.

[Lanne]

Yep. Lots of people think I was crazy for saying it was the house.. but we crashed our car on the way back from converting the bond.. and it certainly didn't improve.. Every single appliance we owned died in that year. EVERYTHING! Not just one or two.. We were broken into. Lost jobs. Miscarriages. Death in the family. Broke things. Broke lots of things actually. We had SO many cuts/bruises/small accidents. Absolutely no one stayed with us for the year.. unlike any other house. everyone just said no thanks LOL.
It was horrible! Houses def can have karma.

[Julie-Ann]

I love how Lanne's friend looks for clues of a divorce. And when I think of people we know who have divorced recently Lanne's friend is right there are often very obvious signs. The house across the street would be the exception as no furniture has been removed and he hires a gardener. So the house is in pristine condition.
We bought a house once from a lady who ended up in prison for fraud against elderly people- just charming. But there was no negative energy. But I do think that perhaps there is sometimes just like Lanne and Elements experienced. If your renting you can move but if you had bought the house- then what???

[Sarah]

I have only ever rented or built homes.... if I don't like the "feel" of a rented house, I just don't rent it...... its much easier when you build because you don't have someone elses negative energy