Haunted addresses on record in Georgia
What Georgia requires
Georgia law protects sellers, landlords, and real estate agents from liability for not volunteering that a property was the site of a death, felony, or suicide, and the same statute covers not disclosing that a past occupant had a disease like HIV/AIDS. That protection only covers staying silent, though — the statute itself says an owner or agent must answer honestly if a buyer asks directly.
Georgia has a stigmatized-property statute, O.C.G.A. § 44-1-16, which says no cause of action can arise against an owner, real estate broker, or affiliated licensee for failing to disclose that a property was occupied by a person with a disease considered highly unlikely to spread through normal occupancy, or that the property was the site of a homicide, other felony, suicide, or death by accident or natural causes.
Georgia has no death-disclosure duty comparable to California's three-year rule. There's no statutory window after which a death becomes non-disclosable — under § 44-1-16, sellers and agents simply aren't required to bring up a death on the property at all, regardless of when or how it happened.
The ask rule is written directly into the Georgia statute, not just left to general fraud principles: sellers, brokers, and licensees must answer truthfully, to the best of their knowledge, if a buyer or their agent specifically asks whether the property was occupied by a person with a covered disease or was the site of a death. Violations don't create liability unless fraud is found.
On hauntings specifically, Georgia's statute doesn't mention paranormal reputation at all, and no Georgia court has taken up a haunted-house disclosure case the way New York's courts did in Stambovsky v. Ackley (the 1991 "Ghostbusters ruling," where a seller who had publicized her own house as haunted was held to have to disclose that to a buyer). Georgia real estate commentary generally treats suspected hauntings the same way it treats a death or a stigma: sellers and agents don't have to volunteer it, but the safest reading of the statute is that they shouldn't misrepresent it if asked outright.
General information, not legal advice. Laws change and turn on details — for a real decision, talk to a licensed professional in Georgia.
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