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What Wyoming requires

Wyoming has no statute specifically addressing 'stigmatized property' — nothing that names deaths, murders, suicides, or reported hauntings as facts sellers must (or don't have to) disclose. Wyoming is also a caveat-emptor state with no mandatory general seller disclosure form, so the default is that very little gets volunteered unless another law requires it. If you ask a direct question, ordinary fraud and misrepresentation law still means an agent or seller can't lie in response.

Wyoming does not have a dedicated stigmatized-property statute of the kind several other states have adopted (ones that expressly say a death, crime, or paranormal reputation is not a 'material fact'). It also has no general mandatory residential seller-disclosure form — Wyoming is a caveat emptor ('buyer beware') state, meaning sellers aren't required by state law to fill out or hand over a standard property-history disclosure the way most states require. A handful of narrow disclosure duties exist for other things (federal lead-paint disclosure on pre-1978 homes; a vacant-land disclosure statute covering mineral, water, and utility issues), but none of them touch deaths or hauntings.

There is no Wyoming death-disclosure duty comparable to California's three-year window under Civil Code § 1710.2 — we found no statute or rule that requires disclosure of a death on a property regardless of how recently it occurred. Wyoming's real estate license law (Wyo. Stat. § 33-28-303) does require a licensee to disclose 'adverse material facts actually known' to them about title, physical condition, and defects — but that duty is framed around the property's physical and financial condition, not its psychological or paranormal history, and nothing in the statute's text reaches deaths or hauntings.

The 'ask rule': we could not verify Wyoming-specific statutory language spelling out that a direct question about a property's history must be answered truthfully. That said, general fraud and misrepresentation law applies in every state, Wyoming included — an agent or seller who affirmatively lies in response to a direct question can still be exposed to a fraud claim, even where there's no freestanding duty to volunteer the information.

We found no notable Wyoming court case on stigmatized property comparable to New York's Stambovsky v. Ackley ('legally haunted house') ruling. A couple of secondary websites cited specific Wyoming statute numbers for a stigmatized-property rule, but those numbers conflicted with each other and didn't match when checked against the actual statutory text, so they were dropped rather than repeated here.

General information, not legal advice. Laws change and turn on details — for a real decision, talk to a licensed professional in Wyoming.

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