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Post by **Angie** on Sept 17, 2018 3:59:19 GMT
We walked in and it felt like home.... Well then there’s your answer. The interior is stunning! The weird spot above the porch in the outside pic gave me pause though heh heh heh LOL It was raining the day they took the pictures. There's a huge puddle in another picture.
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Post by SallyPA on Sept 17, 2018 4:00:05 GMT
It wouldn’t be my ideal location just because of people coming and going. But I wouldn’t be scared of or uncomfortable with the location for any other reason. It sounds like a neat little place!
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Post by **Angie** on Sept 17, 2018 4:02:29 GMT
Yes, but we were also in a historical house and neighborhood all through High School in Utah. It was just down the street. I would walk up there sometimes. I find them peaceful. My mom was obsessed with them for a while. Which puzzled us quite a bit when she wanted to be cremated. She had what she wanted on her grave! She was a big history both in family history and world history and such. The house you showed is beautiful but bit of an odd layout from the pics? is it bigger on the inside ? I think it is the angle the pictures were taken. The common areas on the main floor have very high ceilings - I seriously think the camera person used a drone.
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Post by **Angie** on Sept 17, 2018 4:07:52 GMT
That's when you know you've found THE one! I actually teared up when we were inside and I was talking to the owner. Not sure if that will help or hurt us if we make an offer!
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Sept 17, 2018 4:30:29 GMT
It would depend on the feel of the house when I went to visit. I’d also drive by in the evening, later at night, and during the weekend to make sure there wasn’t anything that made me uncomfortable or gave me bad vibes. If I got creeped out as soon as I set foot on the property or in the house, nothing would change my mind. If I got a good feeling and it felt like home, nothing would change my mind.
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Post by **Angie** on Sept 17, 2018 4:35:56 GMT
I would buy that house in a second. Great bones; great possibilities. Wouldn’t care about the cemetery, except maybe for resale, but I always figure if I’m willing to buy something questionable - within reason, financially - somebody else will be willing to buy in the future. (We sold a “hard to sell“ house in four days.) Why does your MIL think you’ll burn in hell? I'm spiritual, but not "organized" religious. I mean, I believe that there has to be "something else" because if this world or lifetime is it, then that really sucks. But, I don't believe that one religious viewpoint is better/more correct than the next one. I believe you take the best bits of each and try to do good and be good, and that much of what is written in religious texts are just stories. MIL is a hard line Christian - she firmly believes there is something wrong if you don't believe the stories of the Bible and in God/Jesus/resurrection/etc. If I was religious and hung religious items in the house, I think she'd be okay, but since I won't, I wouldn't doubt that she expects the ceiling to come down on my head. Oh, and it doesn't help that I've converted dh to my "heathen ways".
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2018 4:54:26 GMT
No, I would not. Sure, it would have the quietest neighbors ever. But for me it would be depressing seeing all the funerals and hearing people crying. A friend's mom and her second husband lived across the road from the cemetery where her first husband was buried. I never could figure out how she could stand living there, but to each their own.
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Post by azredhead on Sept 17, 2018 4:56:04 GMT
Yes, but we were also in a historical house and neighborhood all through High School in Utah. It was just down the street. I would walk up there sometimes. I find them peaceful. My mom was obsessed with them for a while. Which puzzled us quite a bit when she wanted to be cremated. She had what she wanted on her grave! She was a big history both in family history and world history and such. The house you showed is beautiful but bit of an odd layout from the pics? is it bigger on the inside ? I think it is the angle the pictures were taken. The common areas on the main floor have very high ceilings - I seriously think the camera person used a drone. I kinda wondered that just from the pics, cause some rooms looked bigger? Is the floor in good shape. I would look at things like that. It might be fun! There is a lot you can do with it!
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Post by Jili on Sept 17, 2018 5:04:40 GMT
I think it would be pretty cool to live near a cemetery (an older cemetery). It wouldn't bother me in the slightest.
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Post by sueg on Sept 17, 2018 6:25:06 GMT
We currently live about 200m from a very large cemetery. The Metro station just outside our apartment building is 'Nordfriedhof' - German for 'North Cemetery'. The earliest graves date back to about 1860 and it is still being used for burials. It doesn't freak me at all - I go for walks around and trhough the cemetery regularly. If there is a service or procession happening, I just give it a wide berth. People who are tending to grave tend to not and say hello as I walk past. There don't seem to be large car processions here, at least, in nearly 9 years I haven't noticed any.
There are a couple of older, no longer used cemeteries around the city and most of them have houses or apartment buildings right next to their fences. My first thought when I walked through the Old South cemetery (our council is very unoriginal with names!) was that I didn't think I could live in one of those overlooking the cemetery, but then I thought 'at least the neighbors would be quiet'
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Post by anniebygaslight on Sept 17, 2018 10:24:39 GMT
I used to live next to a cemetery. No problems ever. It was a wonderful wildlife haven.
On the other hand, I once lived opposite a pub. Never again.
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Post by christine58 on Sept 17, 2018 11:24:47 GMT
That house is gorgeous...go for it
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Post by phoenixcov on Sept 17, 2018 11:49:16 GMT
I lived by a Church and graveyard for a few years. Only the living caused me any problems. A friend moved to a rented cottage next to a Church, and when we were clearing the bottom of the garden of several feet of weeds and nettles we uncovered several grave stones on the wrong side of the Church wall. That was a bit sad as the Vicar told friend they were possible graves of Suicides.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Sept 17, 2018 11:57:12 GMT
Just salt the foundation and smug the house My husband might say *I* am a bit smug... but our house? Not so much.
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Post by maryannscraps on Sept 17, 2018 12:06:07 GMT
What a pretty house! Funny, it would never occur to me to not want to live next to a cemetery. I never thought about it reducing the price of the house. But then, you're probably going to get it for a bit less so it's all good. I'm imagining the type of cemetery that's in my town -- wooded and peaceful. If the house was what I want, the cemetery wouldn't stop me.
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Post by lbp on Sept 17, 2018 13:26:02 GMT
I grew up next door to the church with a cemetery. On Halloween it was a big dare among us kids to walk out to the cemetery at night while the rest of us stood at the end of my driveway and watched to make sure they didn't cheat!
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Post by craftedbys on Sept 17, 2018 13:34:11 GMT
Beautiful house! And no, it's location would not bother me.
I love all of the glass. Makes everything feel more open and airy.
Now if I could only find a house like that around here.
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Post by roxiemarie0524 on Sept 17, 2018 14:19:16 GMT
I live in the city - in an area that was expanded in the late 1940's - after world war II. Because of that, there are 3 cemeteries within walking distance from my house. All three cemeteries are older and when first used, they were considered outside city limits. All three are still in use today. One is across the street - when I look out my kitchen window I see directly into the cemetery. Another is about a block and half from me - it is actually across the street from the cemetery that is across from me, and the third one is about 4 blocks away.
Never had any issues, although sometimes it isn't so great to wake up on a Saturday or Sunday morning and look out the kitchen window to see an interment going on. Not sure I need a reminder of my own mortality on a weekend morning.
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Post by Anita on Sept 17, 2018 14:43:01 GMT
It's a beautiful house. It wouldn't worry me a bit to live next to a cemetery. I hope you get it!
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Post by auntkelly on Sept 17, 2018 15:05:19 GMT
It wouldn’t bother me to live next to a cemetery, but I would want to know who was responsible for the maintenance of the cemetery. I would want to be sure that it was being regularly maintained.
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Post by workingclassdog on Sept 17, 2018 15:06:57 GMT
It wouldn't bother me a bit.. nice and quite..lol... especially if the cemetery is well kept..not sure if I would want to be near one that is all a huge mess. And a conversation piece. And maybe a cool place to talk walks.. usually there are a lot of trees.. so yeah, I would!! Edited to add: After reading all the responses, I haven't changed my mind at all. I am too wondering about the resell being lower.. It wouldn't dawn on me. Sounds like from the peas it is almost 60/40 to yes living next to a cemetery.. but I think any place you pick there is always something that someone wouldn't like, subways, bus stops, schools, stores.. each individual has their own 'thing'... Also it did cross my mind, those cemeteries in New Orleans...I really don't know if I would want to live next door to those.. they are all above ground.. and honestly kinda creepy in a way.. I don't know... that is a whole different animal in my book... hahaha... although touring one of them, they are very cool...
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Post by wezee on Sept 17, 2018 16:18:19 GMT
Well just think of it as a house that is ready for halloween year long!
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Post by Restless Spirit on Sept 17, 2018 18:01:21 GMT
Absolutely no.
A) It’s too creepy for me. B) Resale would be very difficult in my area.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2018 18:13:39 GMT
Just salt the foundation and smug the house My husband might say *I* am a bit smug... but our house? Not so much. Damn auto-fill
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Post by scrapmaven on Sept 17, 2018 18:22:42 GMT
I wouldn't do it, because it would remind me too much of death. My dh' aunt lived next to a cemetary. It was adjacent to her backyard. When she was terminal she would joke about us just throwing her over the back porch into the ground. There used to be trees, but they had been cut down years beforehand. Very morose. At her funeral, people who were late just stood in her backyard. It was really creepy.
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Post by MaryMary on Sept 17, 2018 18:41:45 GMT
I have a dream of living in a converted church, and find cemeteries beautiful. So, yes.
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Post by bc2ca on Sept 17, 2018 18:48:36 GMT
I wouldn't think twice about buying the house if it ticked all the other boxes for me. I'd be hesitant if the cemetery was beside the property or across the street, but it doesn't sound like you actually see the cemetery from your house.
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Post by Prenticekid on Sept 17, 2018 19:19:07 GMT
In the OP's described situation, sure. If the cemetery had a side road used by high schoolers during the day as a raceway to and from school, and for beer parties and other illicit reasons at night, then no. In addition to some noise, there was always a huge amount of trash along the chain link fence between a house I did consider buying and the cemetery. This was one time when looking at a house during different times of the day really paid off.
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Post by not2peased on Sept 17, 2018 19:26:52 GMT
I would pay extra! I love cemetaries and lived next to one for years. no problem at all-the residents are all very quiet
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Post by anniefb on Sept 17, 2018 19:31:19 GMT
I don’t think it would bother me unless it was a really busy cemetery with loads of visitors all the time.. I don’t believe in ghosts
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