Has This House Ever Hosted a Quincenera?

Austin still has flashes of being a small town. Case in point - the lead story on the local news tonight was the "investigative report" about how home-owners and landlords do not have to disclose if someone died in the house.  A full 10-minute report on their months-long investigation, complete with experts, listening-to-you-in-Leander, and tips on how to live in a world that would allow such things.

The local news in Houston tonight?  I can't be sure, because I am in Austin, but if it was anything like any of the 5,475 days I lived there, I'm guessing it went something like:

Murder. 
Murder. 
Murder / suicide. 
Police shooting. 
Something stupid the governor did or said*
Police asking for help in suspicious death that's probably murder. 
Weather - 95 degrees, 130% humidity, 30% chance of afternoon showers. 
Human interest story on how one family has recovered from murder. 
Breaking news of a new murder. 
Sports - the Astros / Texans / Rockets / Oilers has a disappointing loss en route to a sucky season. 
Teaser for story on a murder on our next broadcast at 5 / 6 / 10 / 6 am / on-line / via twitter & instagram. 

*to be fair, we get that in Austin as well, seeing as the governor does or says something stupid every 172 minutes (it was confirmed through PolitiFact)

So in a way, it's almost sweet that Austin's breaking-news-top-story is how you may not ever know that the apartment you are renting once was home to murder.  Which of course is much more relevant in Houston, since they have much more murder.

The hard-hitting report went through what is required and what's not.  If the house killed someone, it must be disclosed.  Roof caving in; flaming carcinogenic lead paint; Amityville-like demons possessing residents and sucking them down to hell?  Must be on the disclosure form.  Quadruple homicide / suicide (or what they like to call "Tuesday" in Houston)?  No duty to report.

They talked to a realtor to get his side of this scandal.  He suggested that potential renters / buyers need to make sure they ask a lot of questions.

I feel I am an inquisitive consumer.  I do my homework, ask questions, dig deeper.  But until this eye-opening expose, I did not know that I should inquire about this.

I love the open kitchen, but was anyone ever gutted with a knife in there?  How about in the breakfast nook?

Do you know how much the electric bills average in the summer?  And has the house ever contained a bullet-ridden corpse?

I am excited about the wine cellar, but is that wall something that was added to entomb a nobleman who slighted the previous owner, who lured him downstairs by the promise of a rare wine?

I used to read a lot of Poe.