The Thirteenth Floor Superstition

Alexandra bellak a broker with douglas elliman real estate said in the atlantic that he d never had a buyer reject a thirteenth floor apartment li 2015.

The thirteenth floor superstition.

According to the stress management center and phobia institute in asheville north carolina more than 80 percent of hi rise buildings in the united states do not have a 13th floor and the vast. Skipping floor 13 in hotels saves patrons who may suffer from this disorder the discomfort of being in elevators with a 13th floor or from having a room on such a floor. But if there is even a minuscule chance that a 13th floor unit won t sell due to superstition then a developer will just as quickly avoid the risk and skip from 12 to 14. The fear of 13.

Real estate agents tend not to have problems selling units on the particular floor but the fact is that most buildings lack them anyway. This phobia has created traditions such as builders strategically forgetting the 13th floor when. Thus a building whose top floor is numbered 100 would in fact have just eighty floors. The most common include denoting what would otherwise be considered the thirteenth floor as level 14 giving the thirteenth floor an alternate designation such as 12a or m the.

Aside from friday the 13th some people have a separate fear of the number 13. Throughout every corner of this earth someone looks to avoid the number thirteen at all costs. So you needed a key to make the elevator stop on 13. That was the 1st time i heard of the 13th floor superstition.

Skip the 13th floor the number 13 is considered unlucky. I thought that was interesting in staying true to not having guests stay on a wrongly numbered floor 13th floor labeled as 14 still makes it the 13th floor. Due to the blending of east asian and western cultures it is possible in some buildings that both the thirteenth floor and the fourteenth floor are skipped causing the twelfth floor to precede the fifteenth floor along with all the other 4s. In some skyscrapers in the world the 13th floor does not even exist.

All this bowing to superstition continues despite some anecdotal evidence that the thirteenth floor is not scary for most buyers. Omitting the 13th floor may take a variety of forms.