Cheap rent? Try Japan's haunted houses

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Comedian Tanishi Matsubara has an unusual system for renting cheaply in Osaka – he seeks out ‘stigmatised property’: places in which the previous inhabitant has died. In Japan, the belief that such properties are haunted has even led to a law which means potential tenants must be informed
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  1. I'd do it. Credible paranormal investigators barely find anything at the most haunted of locations. It'd be fun to chill every night with an Asahi and spirit box.

  2. No such thing as a haunted house. These are just cheap properties that need to be grabbed up if people can overcome their superstitious.

  3. Meanwhile, many American realtors won’t ever mention any deaths or other awful stuff that happened in a home when they try to sell a house to you.

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