Haunted addresses on record in Louisiana
What Louisiana requires
Louisiana law explicitly says a home seller or agent does not have to tell you if the property was the site of a death, murder, suicide, or is rumored to be haunted — a state statute calls that kind of "psychological impact" immaterial and shields sellers from liability for staying silent. There's no Louisiana death-disclosure timer like California's three-year rule. If you want to know, you generally have to ask.
Louisiana has a specific stigmatized-property statute, La. R.S. 37:1468 ("Psychologically impacted property"). It states that the fact or suspicion that a property was the site of a homicide, other felony, or suicide is not a material fact or material defect that must be disclosed in a real estate transaction, and that no cause of action arises against an owner or agent for failing to disclose it.
There is no separate Louisiana death-disclosure duty comparable to California's Civil Code §1710.2 (which imposes a three-year disclosure window for deaths on a property). In Louisiana, a death of any kind, at any time, on a property is treated as covered by the psychological-impact statute above — meaning it generally does not have to be volunteered.
The statute itself is silent on what happens if a buyer asks directly. It only addresses the duty to disclose unprompted; it does not carve out an exception for direct questions. Multiple real-estate-industry summaries state that ordinary honesty/fraud principles still apply once a seller chooses to answer — but this is a general inference, not something confirmed here as Louisiana-specific case law on stigmatized property, so treat it as a caveat rather than a guarantee.
A local quirk worth knowing: in New Orleans's French Quarter, some "for sale" signs carry an extra placard reading "HAUNTED" or "NOT HAUNTED" — not a legal requirement, but a neighborhood tradition (one well-known sign at 726 Barracks Street reportedly reads differently depending on which side you view it from). In that market, a haunted reputation is often treated as a selling point rather than a defect.
General information, not legal advice. Laws change and turn on details — for a real decision, talk to a licensed professional in Louisiana.
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