Bad Karma to Consider a Foreclosed House?
I recently browsed the foreclosed listings on Property Shark and came across a house that is up for auction next month. However, I feel kind of guilty even looking at the foreclosed listings, and I was wondering if you all think it’s bad karma to buy a foreclosed house. Do these homes even really sell…
I recently browsed the foreclosed listings on Property Shark and came across a house that is up for auction next month. However, I feel kind of guilty even looking at the foreclosed listings, and I was wondering if you all think it’s bad karma to buy a foreclosed house. Do these homes even really sell for that much cheaper at auction?
I think bad karma is doing that all,Oh…well..I really appreicate this post…and by that i mean.. Enjoy life.
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I think bad karma is often just your feelings coming through. Having said that, however, we once bought a house that had come on the market after a particularly nasty divorce (the husband left the wife’s dog out in the cold to die) and the phone lines had been cut. Other than that history, it was a gorgeous house and yard. Once we started living in it though, we couldn’t wait to leave (we stayed four years). The neighbors each side had really annoying habits (dogs barking, cars left running in driveways, power tools on a Sunday morning, neighbor banging on the door and yelling at us, however, when our puppy barked once when left outside on Friday night and we didn’t hear her). Now we think the previous occupants were so stressed out they ended up going nuts and taking it out on each other. Bad karma indeed. Our current house was happily lived in by the previous family for 30 years, buying a happy home is important.
Hey 8:17 — Maybe the answer is we offer a smudge service for all the 100s of thousands of people all over America who are getting bad karma because they bought foreclosed properties! We’d get rich!
Hey OP, I’m a crunchy feely person too, so I get what you’re saying (I passed on an apartment in Park Slope because of the circumstances around it becoming vacant, so I get you). The truth is, you don’t know how or why the property came into foreclosure, and so the guilt you’re feeling and the energy you’re expending is worthless. If you can afford it, buy the property, live in it and enjoy life, and make a big fat donation to a homeless charity to assuage the guilt. We build positive karma through right action.
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Well then there are about to be 100’s of thousands of people all over America getting bad karma right now as they buy all the houses going into foreclosure from the mortgage crisis. Please. Small superstitions are normal but this is the 21st century. Get over it.
OP, as a crunchy feely person, I totally understand your karma question. I don’t like to look at foreclosures for that reason. It’s not that you are doing anything wrong by buying it, but you don’t want to inherit negative energy. You can always smudge the property. (Oh, this one won’t go over well on brownstoner!)
I dont think its a karma thing. However, just like any other discount, foreclosures have special headaches you have to put up with in order to save money.
If you are careful/knowledgeable/lucky, you can make a big profit. If not, you can come out at a loss.
also, what if the property was foreclosed b/c the owner was a flipper who got in over his head? why should you feel sorry for them?
Bad karma? Hahahahaha, my dear there are people, lots of them, who do this FOR A LIVING. The only karma they’re feeling is the warm and toasty feeling they get when they look at their fat bank accounts. It’s an efficient market, and foreclosures are one of the only ways that some people can afford to buy in this ridiculous real estate market. Go for it, and don’t look back. You won’t see anything there — other than the crappy 450 sq ft apartment you currently occupy…
Not such thing as bad karma, but make sure you know as much about the place as you can, and expect the worse on everything else. Most properties that end up foreclosed have been not well maintained for a long time, so expect a lot of extra work and possibly worse case scenarios for a number of issues.
Good luck!