The owners of a home in Hudson, Que. are suing the previous owners for close to half-a-million dollars after discovering a home intruder in 2020 had been stabbed inside the home and died.
Are they claiming that the event has given the property a bad reputation that reduces its value by that amount? I suppose those are plausible grounds for a lawsuit. I can’t think of any other way a death on the property several years ago could cause damage to the new owners. Surely they’re not claiming that the house is haunted (and if that’s the issue, I can imagine the judge being extremely unamused).
I would think it could be hard to convince someone that the property had a bad reputation while at the same time claiming that you didn’t know about it. A “reputation” implies that it’s common knowledge, or at the very least, that it’s easy to find out about. Which means that if you didn’t know about it, you didn’t do your due diligence.
Are they claiming that the event has given the property a bad reputation that reduces its value by that amount? I suppose those are plausible grounds for a lawsuit. I can’t think of any other way a death on the property several years ago could cause damage to the new owners. Surely they’re not claiming that the house is haunted (and if that’s the issue, I can imagine the judge being extremely unamused).
I would think it could be hard to convince someone that the property had a bad reputation while at the same time claiming that you didn’t know about it. A “reputation” implies that it’s common knowledge, or at the very least, that it’s easy to find out about. Which means that if you didn’t know about it, you didn’t do your due diligence.
My suspicion is that they didn’t talk to the neighbours until after they bought the house. So, yeah, lack of due diligence.