Years ago, my then-fiancee (now wife) and I were looking at condos to buy. At the time we were renting a two-bedroom apartment. We saw an ad for a townhouse for sale, in a desirable neighborhood, overlooking a golf course. We called the real estate company and met an agent there; it was her first time showing the…

Had a bad feeling when he said he didn't rent to people with kids.

I remember reading about the man that cut the kid's head off and left it in the street. I think the kid was disabled and the mother had ran to the store. The head was left where she would find it but a neighbor did instead.

What I've learned today: don't rent or buy an apartment with a price that sounds too good to be true.

I would totally believe that. We actually have a framed 5 x 7 picture of Jack and Norma that was passed down through all of the previous owners. When we moved in, a really old man two houses down, who's since passed away actually remembered them from when he was little and talked about how his parents, along with…

My dad and I are die hard skeptics but we've learned to never ignore my mom's gut feelings. When my bf and I were buying a house we brought her to one we just adored at a great price but she refused to set foot in it. She said she had a nightmare when she took a nap after seeing that house. We didn't buy it, lost out…

I too lived in a murder house. Ours had been the owner of the house before our landlords bought it, and she was murdered by her daughter's boyfriend, according to our neighbors. And because the post office will keep sending you mail long after you'd died, we even knew her name: Alice. And, strangely enough, there…

A couple years ago, or maybe last year, someone in the comments wrote about how her house has two benevolent ghosts, a Victorian lady and a drag queen. I thought that would make a fantastic sitcom! I love the idea of friendly ghosts. I wish my home had a friendly ghost, or a ghost cat or something.

Aargh!!! That is so awful!!! I am happy you are out of there. On a similar note, our friends bought a house not far from us a few years ago in a charming area. They did some beautiful renovations on it. Then they went on a trip to Europe one summer, and some other friends were house-sitting. The house-sitting friends…

Right? We'll be looking to move in the next year, and now all I can think about is "What if it's haunted?"

These are amazeballs. Keep em comin'.

My SO and I are planning to buy our first house next summer (fingers crossed!) so these haunted house stories are particularly unnerving to me. I feel like my scientist SO will never stop laughing at me if / when I ask the realtor if any of the homes were sites of grisly murders. But hey, he wants a house with a dish…

I feel like we really need a new term for "NYC brunch" that's not just brunch. Because traditional brunch — family time, for grandma's birthday, after church — is one thing and there should be no debate about bringing a baby to brunch in most of the country, in most settings. But the "brunch" NYC millenials talk about…

Getting someone to drive you to the "best" neighborhoods for candy is an american tradition. I did it, my parents did it, no doubt my grandparents did it. These are the rules of trick or treating. First, you hit the "best" neighborhoods and get as much candy as you can (and at least one of you is carrying an extra…

You seem to have forgotten to include Mexican Tortilla Soup in your extensive list of #1's.

No worries. Easy mistake. I'll sit here and wait until you fix it.

For me, it didn't. The harder thing for me was getting over dealing with his family stress and drama. His mother is "Catholic" and his grandparents are CATHOLIC, and my refusal to attend mass or entertain a Catholic wedding ruffled some feathers. (Booth is also an atheist.) I occasionally have breakdowns about the…

I never did understand the fondling or that whole subset of ramming your hand down your pants for comfort.

For me, it was like shortly after the wedding I woke up to the fact that I was now legally in an immediate family bond with my man. Like, oh, you've always been this way but now people are going to associate it with me too. Forever.

I did not live with my husband before we got married, and it was definitely the living together part that was hardest. Dividing chores, trying to maintain a balance of independence and togetherness when you can't physically leave the apartment for a night, etc. There were some existential "Now I'm bound to this person…