Maybe “casual” isn’t the right word, but I would expect anyone paying $650k in 1991 (what is that, like $2million in today’s dollars) to do their due diligence, which doesn’t sound like it was done at all. And you aren’t doing this yourself, you’re paying someone to do it for you (esp with this kind of money on the line).

I tried to start a peanut butter religion with my friends. We came up with names of deities, holy rites, and decided that priests had to wear the mr peanut outfit. Sadly we couldn’t get many others to convert to our new religion….
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May Pata Pinati bless you this day

Just read the wiki on it - I agree with you, EVEN if the seller and real estate agent were lying about informing Stambovsky about the haunting, the very public profile of the haunting should have allowed Stambovsky to know this detail.
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I don’t agree with the appellate court decision that,

the most meticulous inspection and the search would not …unearth the property’s ghoulish reputation in the community;

Seems to me a pretty casual search would have revealed the reputation.

…that’s not my dog

China is like this, any building with more than 6 floors is required by law to have an elevator.

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