October 31, 2003
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Do You See Dead People? Disclose It
by Broderick Perkins
If your home has a reputation for ectoplasmic activity, you should disclose it.
Most states's disclosure laws don't deal with the forms the deceased take in the afterlife, but they do address death as a stigma.
In California the law says you don't have to disclose a death that occurred more than three years before the sale.
The California Association of Realtors advises agents to disclose any death, no matter how long ago it occurred, if the seller asks.
The one exception is death caused by AIDS. Federal law define's AIDS as a disability and such a disclosure could be deemed discriminatory.
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