Or put another way, if a house has two half-bathrooms, can it be listed as having “1 bathroom” even though there’s no tub on premises?
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Probably for the buffet.
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Some religions and New Age cults believe that we are surrounded by Spirits, ghosts who wander freely and are attracted by something they like and crave. So, a bigot Spirit propably would follows MAGA rallies, for example.
So, a funeral home would be a good place for pranksters or practical joke Spirits.
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My wife and I were talking about this the other day. We agreed: when we’re dead, if we still exist in some form hopefully there’s something more interesting to do than hang around and watch a bunch of living folks, like, commute and brush their teeth and stuff.
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My mom believe that a life of hate, vices and prejudice will attract Spirits who are full of hatred.
I once attended a lecture in which the speaker explained this theory and said that each thought had a certain frequency and that good thoughts vibrated higher and higher. Then he started talking about music and that unevolved spirits preferred noisy music like rock and that enlightened spirits liked classical music. Goodwin’s law immediately appeared in my mind when I remembered that Hitler and other Nazis loved Wagner…
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Now I am thinking of the sitcom “Ghosts”. Being able to speak with spirits means there are going to be a lot of them in a given area, since continual human habitation in most of the world spans thousands of years.
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Do ghosts take airplanes and travel abroad? I don’t think they need passports.
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Maybe if they died in a plane or car that is still being used.
“OK, the ventriloquist goes to Heaven but the dummy does not”
-Sunday School Teacher, The Simpsons
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This post started as a curiosity about the housing market in the United States and soon changed. Now we have many unanswered questions! An article about the spiritual world is urgently needed on this site!
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You gotta know your audience and I’d say this agent is earning their commission. It being a funeral home is likely to be a liability in trying to sell the property to normies. They don’t care about ghosts, but may be squicked out by the general feeling of living in a funeral home. Of course you’ll have ghost believers who will be repulsed, but then you’ll have your market of ghost believers / wannabe grifters who will actually pay more for a potentially haunted house.
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The first house I put a serious bid on was a funeral home. I couldn’t afford much but the combination of a rising rent and the Obama era first time homebuyer rebate made it wise for me to purchase a place of my own. The funeral home was a massive and fancy place for my budget because it had been lurking on the market for so long.
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Plus it probably had a large stand up finished basement and a high capacity electrical system for handling oversized refrigerators.
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Many years ago when I was visiting the Loire valley in France and its famous chateaux, the tourist information in the town of Blois had a leaflet listing all the important places to visit, with a note at the bottom saying: “SORRY FOR SCOTS BUT OUR CASTLES ARE NOT HAUNTED!”
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The basement was massive, fully tiled, and gorgeous. Because the house was built on a slope, the rear parking lot had a basement entrance with a garage bay, and further in toward the front of the house there was a ramp up to a parking spot on the first floor. Someone else nabbed it before I could get my financing in order!
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That sucks! homebuying is such a journey, and the unique ones that get away do haunt you (intended).
For those house-hunters who are already fully committed to the funeral home lifestyle but can’t close on a place, at least they can always sleep in their car for a bit…
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Note to self: Work up some designs for a Tiny Funeral-Home.
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There’s room here for a crappy pun, but I’d rather not force it- that’s just unhealthy.
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Nope, that’d be considered fraudulent, at least around here. A full bath has a sink, toilet, bathtub and shower. Each of these counts as one quarter of a bathroom. So you’ll see occasionally see quarter-baths (sink only) and 3/4 baths (no tub) aren’t uncommon.
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