In honor of Halloween I thought it might be a good idea to provide some home buying tips to buyers who may not want to buy a haunted house. We all know that the Forepaughs mansion is haunted by Molly the maid and the former owner of the mansion Joseph Forepaugh. In fact I even managed to get pictures of the ghosts.
Molly the Forepaugh’s maid, realizing she was going to have her employers child hung herself in a third floor room by tying the rope to a chandelier and throwing herself out the window, probably around 1865. Joseph Forepaugh committed suicide many years later.
There is room on the sellers disclosure in Minnesota so that sellers can disclose that a home is haunted but they rarely do. This particular home is now a restaurant and the hauntings have never been kept a secret but the average buyer needs to watch out for haunted real estate unless they too plan to open a restaurant and in that case the zoning laws should be checked carefully.
Buyers should always have a home inspection and watch out for signs of haunting like ghost droppings, creaky boards, the wind blowing inside when the windows are closed, objects floating or flying through the air and maniacal laughter from unexplained or perhaps invisible sources. Not all ghosts will allow themselves to be photographed like the ghosts in the picture above.
I want home buyers to know that I have never sold a haunted property but I know there are other haunted houses in St. Paul. If you have a property to sell that is haunted I would be happy to help. Muwahahahaha
Have a happy halloween
