Stigmatized property

A property whose value may be affected by an event that occurred there rather than by its condition. Whether a death must be disclosed to a buyer or tenant is set by state law, and we have not yet researched it state by state.

What kind of thing this is

Stigmatized property is a rule with legal force in this field. We name this term but do not assert its specifics, because we could not verify them from a source that publishes its own methodology. Where you see it used confidently elsewhere, that confidence is not coming from a document we could find.

Where you will meet it

This one shows up when you ask a company how it operates — in an exposure control plan, on a waste manifest, or in the paragraph of a state statute somebody quotes at you. It binds businesses rather than households, which is the distinction most often blurred when it is cited at a homeowner.

Why the wording matters

This site defines terms in under forty words wherever it can, and attaches the practical consequence rather than leaving it implied. A definition that tells you what something is, without telling you what follows from it, is trivia at a moment when nobody has room for trivia.