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<blockquote data-quote="El Draque" data-source="post: 1474089" data-attributes="member: 22076">Not really where to post this, but seems here is as good a place as any to get any takes on it.My atheist boomer father, it transpires, bid 666k on a house.He was interested in a property that a number of interested parties &amp; had a 'closed bid' auction. Thankfully he was not successful as someone else bid 675k.I expressed my alarm that he would even consider this sum, he had made no correlation with it, and found it quite funny that i was so taken aback. He said his reasoning was that he thought the house was worth in region 650-660, but really liked it, and thought maybe someone else would have the same value to it, but bid up in 5's, so he really thought it might get 665 tops, but wanted it to be one higher to be sure. I told him that as far as id be concerned the place would be cursed, and i'd not feel comfortable even staying there, he just laughed &amp; said it was ridiculous, its just a valuation. To reiterate my dad has absolutely no interest in religion and never has. He bid on it due to his theory of it being one over the odds of what he considered a likely top bid, but still, i find his ambivalence as bizarre as he finds my shock. Would others feel uncomfortable knowing this about a property? I suppose in any block of flats it's possible that there's a flat 66 on the 6th floor, or such forth. Car number plates may reflect it, phone numbers etc etc. I just found it all fairly bizarre that it wouldn't even enter his mind.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="El Draque, post: 1474089, member: 22076"] Not really where to post this, but seems here is as good a place as any to get any takes on it. My atheist boomer father, it transpires, bid 666k on a house. He was interested in a property that a number of interested parties & had a 'closed bid' auction. Thankfully he was not successful as someone else bid 675k. I expressed my alarm that he would even consider this sum, he had made no correlation with it, and found it quite funny that i was so taken aback. He said his reasoning was that he thought the house was worth in region 650-660, but really liked it, and thought maybe someone else would have the same value to it, but bid up in 5's, so he really thought it might get 665 tops, but wanted it to be one higher to be sure. I told him that as far as id be concerned the place would be cursed, and i'd not feel comfortable even staying there, he just laughed & said it was ridiculous, its just a valuation. To reiterate my dad has absolutely no interest in religion and never has. He bid on it due to his theory of it being one over the odds of what he considered a likely top bid, but still, i find his ambivalence as bizarre as he finds my shock. Would others feel uncomfortable knowing this about a property? I suppose in any block of flats it's possible that there's a flat 66 on the 6th floor, or such forth. Car number plates may reflect it, phone numbers etc etc. I just found it all fairly bizarre that it wouldn't even enter his mind. [/QUOTE]

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