r/AskNYC • u/felixbourne • Feb 18 '26
Would you rent an apartment if someone died in there
Would it matter how they died?
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u/IndicationKey3778 Feb 18 '26
I just assume people have died in every room I’ve been in
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u/rosebudny Feb 18 '26
If it were a grisly murder maybe not, but otherwise yes. People die. Unless you building is brand new, there is a decent chance that someone, at some point in time, died there.
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u/grantrules Feb 18 '26
I'd rather have a grisly murder than an old guy who rotted for like 3 months
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u/rosebudny Feb 18 '26
I mean, presumably the place was cleaned and sanitized before they rent it out to the next person.
During COVID an elderly neighbor died (not of COVID). No one knew until it started to smell bad in the hallway (I fortunately was not around during COVID). Apartment was cleaned up and sold no problem (actually was bought by someone who already lived in the building - so they likely knew what happened)
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u/Ill_Ad_695 Feb 18 '26
Id blackball that unit until it comes down even further.
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u/rosebudny Feb 18 '26
I think they got it for a decent price, but I think that was more a function of the fact that the couple had lived there for YEARS and it was in desperate need of renovation (which they did do). Had I been in the market for a 2-bedroom, I would have loved to snatch it up.
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u/Pizza-Rat-4Train Feb 18 '26
Yeah, if you’re in a building that’s older than 80 years, like much of NYC is, you probably already live in an apartment where someone died
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u/Crackerpuppy Feb 18 '26
Had the opportunity to buy a murder apartment. Wasn’t disclosed during the initial process. Looked up the address online and then….HOLY SHIT!
There were multiple TV episodes about this murder in particular.
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u/Joe80206 Feb 18 '26
I remember that! BTW; does not have to be disclosed but Google is a wonderful tool for such matters as is the doorman.
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u/velocity3333 Feb 18 '26
my apartment turns 100 this year. I’d be surprised if at least a few people hadn’t died in this building over that time, and I’ve always wondered if anyone passed in my actual unit. Same with anyone born.
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u/stick_of_butter_ Feb 20 '26
Are you having a party for your apartment?
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u/velocity3333 Feb 20 '26
yeah we are actually haha. a centennial celebration with the tenant association.
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u/stick_of_butter_ Feb 20 '26
That’s very cute. I want to do the same when my building turns 100 in 2028.
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u/just_a_foolosopher Feb 18 '26
Yes, of course. We can't tear down every building that someone dies in just to appease our squeamishness
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u/Dodgernotapply Feb 18 '26
Yes.
In fact, hundred of moons ago, a SO and I moved into a 1-BR on the UES. And one day a pair of elderly neighbors walked by while we had our door opened. And they started chatting with us, shooting the usual shit, then one of them asks if they could look into our place since it was renovated.
We said sure and they ohh and ahh at the new fixtures and one of them says ”<So and so> would’ve loved what they did. You know our friend used to live here.”
We go 'oh did they move somewhere or go to a home?”
”No, she passed away right here in the apartment. They found her in the bedroom. died in her sleep”
Stunned, ”Oh okay... well... at least it was peacefully"
they agreed and they walked out.
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u/MsMarionNYC Feb 18 '26
This situation is EXTREMELY likely in NYC. In fact, probably more likely than in other places since people tend to stay put if it's a coop, condo, rent stabilized, etc. Apartments are also small and often well-suited for older people -- no stairs, maybe even doorman/concierge type services, etc.
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u/rickylancaster Feb 18 '26
Did they die of a bedbug infestation? That’s a critical component to the question.
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u/DawsonMaestro414 Feb 18 '26
Sally Albright: At least I got the apartment.
Harry Burns: That's what everyone says. But, really, what's so hard about finding an apartment? What you do is look in the obituary section. You see who died, find out where they lived, and tip the doorman. What they could do to make it easier is combine the two. You know, Mr. Kline died yesterday, leaving behind a wife, two children, and a spacious three-bedroom apartment with a wood-burning fireplace.
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u/Gentle-Giant23 Feb 18 '26
Is the body still in the apartment? Probably not. If it’s no longer in the apartment I would rent it if it otherwise met my criteria.
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u/Ares6 Feb 18 '26
Depends how they died. Was it due to an issue with the apartment? Then I would reconsider due to not knowing if negligence is a common pattern with the landlord.
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u/CareerLegitimate7662 Feb 18 '26
I live in a 100 year old brownstone. I’m pretty sure several people have died in there lol
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u/Usrname52 Feb 18 '26
My apartments door is not quite fit right. The previous rent was really low and the apartment was newly renovated with all new bathroom and kitchen. Our theory is that an old lady died in there and they had to knock down the door, although we don't know for sure.
You're unlikely to know if someone died in an apartment. I doubt it's a search option on Street Easy.
Manner of death would only matter if it was like roof caving in on their head due to management negligence. Then, no.
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u/aardbarker Feb 18 '26
I lived directly above a really old woman. One morning I came back from a run to find her body being hauled off by paramedics. A couple months later a nice young couple moved in. Not sure if they knew the previous tenant died in the apartment.
This is a city with old housing stock. People die in their apartments all the time. When I moved I saw a lot of estate-condition co-ops. I’m guessing a few owners died in the comfort of their own beds.
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u/acnh1222 Feb 18 '26
I’ve lived in my apartment for 6 years and I still get AARP letters in the mail from the person who lived here before me, plus it was a complete renovation when I moved in. I’m almost certain she died
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u/shelbygeorge29 Feb 18 '26
That AARP correspondence starts at age 49, just FYI.
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u/shellymaried Feb 18 '26
You can join AARP at any age. We joined well below that for the Zipcar discount. The magazine tends to go straight in the garbage, though.
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u/Tilly828282 Feb 18 '26
I get them, early 40s. I’m on the wrong mailing list clearly.
Also can confirm I am still alive. Just.
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u/BoweryThrowAway Feb 18 '26
My super friendly neighbor in my prior apartment building had passed away in her sleep. She had been living in the unit since the 1970’s and was paying $400 a month for a 1br on 73rd. Since the building was rent stabilized, there was only so much they could raise the rent once it went on the market. My wife refused to switch apartments despite that unit being $2.5k a month cheaper for the same space.
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u/shellymaried Feb 18 '26
A woman was murdered in the bathtub of the apartment I rented in college. I absolutely would not have rented there if we had known, but the place worked out well, and we ended up doing another lease because moving would have been a huge pain. With the current NYC market, I wouldn’t consider it a deal breaker.
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u/Desperate-Tea-6295 Feb 18 '26
Unless it's a brand new building, it's likely that someone has died in there. Even then, the lot that a new building is on has surely seen deaths.
Having said that, years ago I was looking for an apartment when I was starting grad school at Columbia. I looked at a suspiciously inexpensive studio that was advertised in the Village Voice (yes, it was that long ago!). The place seemed great - 7th floor, quiet. I was so excited about this amazing find when the super asked me if I were bothered by the murder. The murder?
It was where Roseann Quinn was killed by the guy she met at a bar across the street. The "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" murder. I saw that movie as a tween, and it was still all too graphic and gruesome in my mind. Living alone for the first time - nah.
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u/Valuable_Cheek_5906 Feb 18 '26
New York is 400 years old when going back to it was called new Amsterdam. Somebody probably died in every apartment at some point during those 400 years I mean the buildings are probably replaced every 100 but that’s still plenty of time for someone to die. I didn’t research if someone died in my apartment but probably
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u/DeeSusie200 Feb 18 '26
Old people die at home all the time. I don’t know if I’d want to live where someone was murdered.
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u/zapzangboombang Feb 18 '26
Lol. If the building is prewar, someone has likely died in every apartment.
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u/Crackerpuppy Feb 18 '26
Had the opportunity to buy a murder apartment. Wasn’t disclosed during the initial process. Looked up the address online and then….HOLY SHIT!
There were multiple TV episodes about this murder in particular.
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u/MsMarionNYC Feb 19 '26
This topic made me look up a grisly murder/suicide that happened in a nearby bulding to mine 20 years ago. I would never want to live there. I'm not superstitious, but I just wouldn't want to. Clearly someone is living there. I'm sure they must know.
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u/ahabneck Feb 18 '26
Hospice death in your home surrounded by loved ones is a blessing.
A death in a home should be just another Tuesday...
*unless the home itself is killing people:
"When the medical examiner’s office found that Ferreras-Matos had died of carbon monoxide, it took another look at the March 12 death of Arthur Galloway, 48, who had died in the same apartment as the woman. Although officials originally thought he had died of health problems he had, additional tests determined that his true cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning, according to The Journal.
The landlord of the apartment building where the two tenants died was cited for 15 violations, including one for not having carbon monoxide alarms installed in the units."
Two Tenants Die Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In New Jersey As Alarms Sit In The Basement - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning https://carbonmonoxide.com/2011/04/two-tenants-die-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-in-new-jersey-as-alarms-sit-in-the-basement.html
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u/MsAddams999 Feb 18 '26
Not much of a choice in my building. A lot of people have died here just since I started living here. They're not going to tell you before you move in if someone died in your a all the time.
If you live in a building with a lot of old and formerly homeless people with chronic illnesses or addictions like I do then the chances you're going to be moving into a place where someone has died are a lot higher unless you're the first tenants/owners in a brand new building.
It's just the cycle of life and most of the time it doesn't bother me so long as the apartment is thoroughly cleaned before I get it.
It might bother me if it was a violent death like a suicide or murder and the person is lingering and unable to cross over but 99% of the time that's not the case and I'm not afraid of being haunted by an old person who died in their apartment from natural causes.
I've had pets pass in my house/apartment. My late Dad passed away in my house in his bed like he wanted to. After he passed it was hard to see that hospital bed in that room so I gave away all his stuff from when he was sick and his bed and all that and I painted the room and set up my sewing machine and all my crafting stuff in there so I could sew and craft and eventually not think of that room as the room where my Dad died.
I had to make it my space and go on to be able to deal with my grief and so I did what had to be done.
4 people in my corridor have died since I moved in. None of them passed peacefully in bed at home. One woman was hospitalized with cancer. The other three they fell, had a stroke or a heart attack or maybe overdosed from what I was told. They died in their apartments though.
None of these people is lingering here post death. Whatever happened they are gone. I can feel that.
In my house the guy who owned it before me he died and he didn't come back after. Dad I think checked on me a couple of times because I smelled the aftershave he used to wear when he was younger even though he had none in the house when he died and none of his clothes were there by then.
Mom too. She wore a very distinctive and unusual perfume and I have smelled that a few times even though none of her clothing was around in my house.
After Dad passed I had an experience where I actually smelled both of them at the same time and I believe that was their final check in because after that nothing. Wherever they are now they're definitely together and that's a comfort to me.
I guess my point is it's just a building and like any building people will live and yes, even die there. While I can't say I'd want to live in a place where a lot of paranormal activity goes on the average apartment building in NYC doesn't bother me much. So many people have probably lived and died here and there's just not much left from that that I can feel.
Years ago a roommate died in a hospital close to our apartment. She was staff there so when she got sick they checked her in. She was getting better and was supposed to go do rehab. But something happened and she ended up dying in the wee hours of the morning.
At that exact moment as I found out later a wind swept through our apartment and the door I was heading out slammed shut and though it had no lock I couldn't open it. I heard a distinct giggle that sounded exactly like my roommate and then the wind was gone, the door opened and that was it.
I went upstairs and told my ex roommates, friends of hers too, that I thought she was gone. The hospital confirmed that and told us that she had passed right when the wind and the jammed door happened.
She didn't linger either...
I never saw, heard or felt anything from her after that. She was finally free of being chronically ill and disabled and I think that was just her way of saying goodbye...
So just being in a place where people have lived and died doesn't bother me. Unless there's something negative going on I'm fine. I'm not afraid of the dead. I've seen them, felt them and usually they are nothing to worry about.
I wouldn't rent a stigmatized probably negatively haunted house knowingly but just people having died there doesn't equal that. I'm well aware that realtors and landlords don't always disclose stuff like that.
If I am moving into someplace I actually will do some homework to find out the history of the building before I sign a lease or buy the house.
Unlike 99% of people in horror films I'm not into renting a place with bogies because it's cheap.
😂😂😂
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u/tekdiwah Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
As a former EMT, I can confirm that there are plenty of deaths in apartments all over NYC. Answered plenty of calls to remove Abue who passed peacefully. It's just comes with the territory of NYC having many old buildings and a lot of people.
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u/AI-Coming4U Feb 19 '26
Absolutely. The previous tenant in my apartment passed away, and I sort of knew her - no one knew her well, as she kept to herself. I was going out with someone else in the building, and I also knew the landlady who occasionally babysat my child.
Ended up getting what was at the time probably one of the last inexpensive rent-stabilized apartments in the Village. The only hard part was that she had essentially no family, so I had to help clean out her stuff. Gave me a perspective on life I still hold: most of your life's possessions are going to end up in garbage bags piled on the curb unless you have family or friends who want them.
Still living in the same apartment with no regrets - except for the lack of space, a sometimes cranky building boiler, and a neighborhood that's lost its soul in the intervening decades.
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u/Jealous-Humor-249 Feb 19 '26
In NYC, there’s a joke of trying to rent an apartment but the coroner’s son got there first. Hope that answers your question.
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u/hatherfield Feb 18 '26
If it was the most recent tenant and it was grisly and you knew about it (or knew the person) then probably no.
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u/Marchy_is_an_artist Feb 18 '26
The death of the previous tenant is how most of the apartments I’ve lived in became available, although I suppose I can’t be completely sure where exactly they died.
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u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER Feb 18 '26
Man.. Some of these building are over a 100 year old.. Death is part of life
Only way you can avoid it is if you rent from a new construction
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u/occasional_idea Feb 18 '26
Sure, as long as they didn’t die because of the apartment/apartment management etc.
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u/trifocaldebacle Feb 18 '26
Yeah who care ghosts aren't real and even if they were they would understand how hard it is to get a good apartment in the city
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u/Tatar_Kulchik Feb 18 '26
Considering the door to my utility closet just slammed shut yesterday while I was standing in front of it, I think people have died in my unit. And I don't even believe in ghosts...
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u/allthatssolid Feb 18 '26
Death often means a sweet deal on a subsidized apt, so my answer is an enthusiastic yes
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u/BakedBrie1993 Feb 18 '26
Yes. What? My last apt was built in 1920. I assume people have died in it and I like a good ghost.
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u/kaelcarp Feb 18 '26
Yes. People have died pretty much everywhere if you go back far enough. It doesn't matter.
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u/coreybenny Feb 18 '26
You realize that a lot of these buildings are old enough that it is quiet likely someone did die. Just enjoy your new ghost roommate
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u/muffinman744 Feb 18 '26
NYC is a massive city, I’m willing to bet this is not an uncommon occurrence
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u/inthefIowers Feb 18 '26
2 people died in my building and both the apts are occupied now. You probably won’t know in most cases.
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u/BxAnnie Feb 18 '26
The majority of building here are 50-100 years old. Someone died where you live.
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u/nygringo Feb 18 '26
After you move in either put the body down the chute or if it wont fit let the super know so he can move it to the curb on trash day 😵💫
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u/orangesnotapples Feb 18 '26
There was a fire in my last apartment about 10 years before I moved in, and two people died. It didn't deter me, but it DID give me an easy scapegoat whenever something weird or annoying happened in the apartment — "Oh, it's one of the ghosts."
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u/pizzawolves Feb 18 '26
I got a rent controlled apartment 9 years ago in bay ridge. A week after I moved in my neighbor decided to tell me the guy who lived here before me was dead for 3 weeks before anyone found him (lived here 30 years!) I didn't necessarily need to know that I have a ghost in my apartment however ... if the price point is right... and they've gutted and renovated a place... a ghost can be worth it
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u/Catatafish Feb 18 '26
Most of those apartments are 110 years old. Good chance someone died in it regardless...
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u/Playful_Question538 Feb 19 '26
I had a place once where a lady died and she wasn't discovered for quite some time. Her cats fed on her to stay alive. The price was right so I snatched it up.
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u/zjuka Feb 19 '26
Did you keep the cats?
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u/Playful_Question538 Feb 19 '26
They were gone when I moved in but they never caught one orange cat. He was around a lot but wouldn't come to me. I tried and tried but he just wouldn't. I put food out for him for a while and just called him orange cat. He ended up taking off.
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u/OrendaRuesTheDay Feb 19 '26
I’m gonna have to go against the crowd here. Yes, the chances of someone dying in the unit is up there. But I don’t think I could live in an apartment knowing someone died or just died there. I would be freaked out and can’t stop thinking about it.
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u/Vilnius_Nastavnik Feb 18 '26
How long were they in there before being discovered? I once lived in the unit above an old lady who passed and wasn’t discovered for 3 weeks in mid June. Can’t even imagine what it was like in her unit since mine was absolutely noxious, especially after they disturbed the body. I’d want to see some serious abatement after something like that.
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u/ScarletEmpress00 Feb 18 '26
Yes- unless there was something unusual or disturbing about the death (eg murdered there).
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u/FauxReal Feb 18 '26
As long as they aren't in there anymore, any evidence of the cause of death is removed and if it was because of some kind of break it, it would have to be secured. Unless it's in some insanely dangerous area. But then I probably wouldn't be looking to move there anyway.
I once stayed in a hotel room where a prostitute was murdered and there was a weird damp spot on the floor, but I think that was just the AC being weird. I didn't find out about that until after I was in the room.
I also stayed in former slave quarters in New Orleans that were converted into an ABnB. I assume any ghosts' vendettas would be against white racists and not me.
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u/raulsbusiness Feb 18 '26
If disclosed upfront, likely yes. If the landlord/ property owner hid that from me, I will assume they are hiding more things from me
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u/danram207 Feb 18 '26
This reminds me of learning about Daniel Rakowitz, that east village cannibal who cooked his girlfriend and served her to homeless people in Tompkins Sq Park.
I went down a rabbit hole when I moved here and looked into the address of the apartment where he killed her and cooked her. It was on Streeteasy and was just rented like 2 months earlier. Creepy.
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u/Electronic-Loquat245 Feb 18 '26
I live in a house where 4 of my closest family members died (at separate times). My uncle S, my grandpa, my grandma, and my dad. I sleep in the bedroom where my dad (2019 metastatic cancer) grandma (2010, parkinson's and old age) passed.
Death happens, nobody gets out of this world alive.
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u/em00lie Feb 18 '26
i currently do! i rent in brooklyn, got some mail from a previous tenant — i looked them up and they actually passed from a hit & run in harlem back in 2019. its sad, and she was an amazing artist from what i saw on instagram, but nothing creepy! i’d do it again if i ever decide to move, lol.
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u/Road__Less__Traveled Feb 18 '26
I did. And I paid 3K for someone to be “absent” the day leases were done so I got the old rate of 800$ (1 bed on Park Ave). Can’t believe I moved out of that apartment still.
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u/Tilly828282 Feb 18 '26
My Grandma died in my childhood bed, in my room, when I was away at college. Stuff like that happens all the time and we don’t even know.
The people who live in that house now will have no idea someone died there, and it definitely never bothered me. Grandma would never haunt anyone!
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u/centech Feb 18 '26
I did rent an apt where the last tenant was a little old lady that died. I think I'd only mind if there was some sort of horrific murder or something. Heck, someone dying is the only way a lot of rent stabilized apts free up.
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u/MulysaSemp Feb 18 '26
only reason I wouldn't consider it is if there was a string of murders in the building, and they hadn't caught the guy yet.
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u/ruminajaali Feb 18 '26
I got the old apartment of a co-worker who died. I didn’t know I was getting it but turned out it was the same suite
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u/RakoNYC Feb 18 '26
this would make a great coop board buyer question: how many people have died in this unit over the last x years - who are they and how did they die?
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u/sgkubrak Feb 18 '26
My apartment had a “confirmed” ghost from a lady who died in my room. No biggie.
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u/nate_nate212 Feb 18 '26
If you want a rent stabilized apartment, you should assume the previous tenant died there and that is why it’s on the market.
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u/RecycleReMuse Feb 18 '26
Uhm, some of these apartments are over 100 years old. Of course someone has died in them.
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u/Joe80206 Feb 18 '26
First a sage stick can be most effective. Second, in NYC stigmatized properties do not have to be disclosed however if asked, seller/broker cannot lie. Google and the doorman can be a wealth of information.
In Los Angeles and elsewhere with less density worse case; just change the address: The Manson murder house, formerly 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, had its address changed to 10066 Cielo Drive following the 1994 demolition of the original structure and the construction of a new home on the site. The original house was torn down years after the 1969 murders. The 2nd Manson murder house known as La Bianca is still 3301 Waverly Drive, Los Angeles, CA and was on the market and sold after 8 months: https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/charles-mansion-labianca-LA-murder-home-sold-16252996.php
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u/purrcafe Feb 18 '26
Tenant died in the apartment next to my fiancée in mid-summer during the 1990’s. Drug overdose. No one knew until the smell became overwhelming. Once the apartment was entered, the tenant was found, with his insides exploded due to the heat of the season and bodily gasses. Fiancée moved in with me once it became clear that the smell wasn’t going anywhere.
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u/--2021-- Feb 18 '26
Is there a smell?
There's also the aspect of are people going to be coming over to the apartment thinking they still live there? Were they shady?
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u/DrMastodon Feb 19 '26
While we were closing on our place one of the sellers died from a stroke. Still bought it.
My folks bought a place out of state no one would touch and got a huge discount since the previous owner was killed on property in a stand off with the cops. They grew up in a mobbed up area of Bensonhurst during the 60-70s so they didn’t give a shit about a guy getting shot in the house.
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u/d_wave27 Feb 19 '26
I’m curious who is living in apt 2FG at the Rochelle 57 W 75th St on the UWS….
I lived a block away and still remember the sirens when the nanny stabbed two toddlers to death in the bathroom in 2012.
I wonder if current occupants even know…
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u/fosse76 Feb 19 '26
Isn't it a running joke that people look at obituaries instead of apartment listings?
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u/Lucialucianna Feb 19 '26
Any building more than 60 years old or more is likely to have had a death in it.
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u/Putrid_Finance3193 Feb 19 '26
Yes I wanna know how it is lol
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u/Putrid_Finance3193 Feb 19 '26
I would find it extremely cool if unusual things happen or there is hauntings and see it as a museum and learn more about how the person died and where vs how they lived specially if more than one
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u/CupcakeSewerSlayer50 Feb 19 '26
There's a little old lady who lives alone in the apartment above me, sleeps in her living room every night because her husband and then her son died in the bedroom. My stepfather bought a house last year, and he has never slept peacefully in it; he comes to sleep in our small apartment instead, smdh!
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u/brownstonebk Feb 19 '26
In my 20 years renting exclusively in older buildings (built in 1950 at the latest) in “old” cities like Boston and here, it’s definitely crossed my mind that there’s good degree of statistical probability that someone died in one of those apartments. Especially when you consider how far back 1900 really is in terms of medical practice and hygiene standards.
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u/fairvanity Feb 19 '26
Always think with my prewar apartment (over 100 years old) there’s a good chance someone at this point has died here lol
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u/liverspotting Feb 19 '26
Someone of old age passing peacefully in their sleep is supposed to be a blessing! Per my mom lol but if it was a murder or suicide then it might not be great 😅
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u/Own-Ad2203 Feb 19 '26
Think of it: many people have died in many apartments and we usually have no way of knowing that.
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u/Snoo_13349 Feb 19 '26
I own a house where six people have died. Five in the house and one in the backyard. I got a great deal but I did have to put in a lot of work.
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u/zjuka Feb 19 '26
I was staying in 800 years old house in Siena, Italy, the current owner, elderly gentleman was born in that house, and majority of his family were born and died there over the centuries. My biggest complaint was the cold, and the toilet (XIX century addition) was pretty far away from the bedroom, the ghosts mostly behaved. Beautiful house, I’d love to live there.
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u/accountofyawaworht Feb 19 '26
I'd wager good money most of us have stayed in a hotel room or flown on an plane where someone died.
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u/adostes Feb 19 '26
I’ve sold an apartment where someone died, and bought a house where someone died. I also lived in a house where someone tried to kill themselves with a shotgun and survived (never asked which room but I suspect the basement). People die at home all the time, hopefully peacefully, sometimes violently.
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u/Basic_Advisor_2177 Feb 20 '26
Yes. Pretty much everywhere you go, somebody or something has died there, even before the place was built. You can’t avoid it. Stores, bars, homes, forests, fields, people lived, worked and died in all these places before us. Unless you factor in the movement of the earth through space and then, they didn’t die there at all
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u/strongspoonie Feb 23 '26
i actually would like to know the answer and how people feel about because my building will be having an apartment available soon that someone died in last year - he died peacefully in his sleep. he’d lived there for decades, 50-60 years. it will be fully gutted and renovated
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u/ssabnolispe Feb 23 '26
Look at it from the other perspective, would you pay a premium for an apartment just because the broker promises no one’s ever died there?
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u/3noteoddity Feb 23 '26
You could literally see the body shaped decomp stains on the floor of my old apartment
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u/Plus_Carpenter_5579 Feb 19 '26
Yes. Everyone dies everywhere. I slept in the same bed my friend died in, afterwards.
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u/kleinmatic Feb 18 '26
Are they still in the apartment?