Vivinavi : Los Angeles : (United States) Los Angeles

This text has been translated by auto-translation. There may be a slight difference between the original text and the translation. (Original Language: 日本語)

LA Real Estate for a Reason] House whose resident just passed away ～ You would buy ？ I would not buy ？

This is Kimi Matsumoto, a real estate service in Los Angeles.

In the U.S., a house whose occupants have been murdered, committed suicide, or been involved in a crime in the house is called a Stigmatized Property.

In Japanese, it is a house that has been stigmatized or branded.

There are many old houses in the U.S., and I am sure there are many houses where such incidents occurred decades ago. But be careful, when selling a house, the seller is required to disclose in writing to the buyer if such an incident has occurred within the past three years.


Although I mentioned crime and suicide above, even if the person who lived in the house died peacefully of old age, there are some people who are concerned about it and consider it as Stigmatized Property as well. It is better for the seller to disclose this information to the buyer in advance.

The same is required not only for the sale of a house, but also for renting a house.


When a friend of mine rented an apartment when I was a student a long time ago,

he used to make a fuss about how "the landlord went out of his way to tell me that my grandmother had recently passed away here - I didn't want to hear that!"

But this is not true. This was, in fact, the landlord's duty.