I have found that I live on a street without the number 13. Two other streets nearby also lack the number 13. Someone has sweetly placed a bird feeder hidden as a letterbox for our number 13 residents.I never noticed and so did some Google research. I found the interesting reason is based on a superstitious fear of buying a house with the number 13. So property developers and real-estate companies basically said don’t worry about skipping that number. They found that the property value was lower because it was number 13 on the street and people were afraid of the number. In Palmerston North, they at one point boycotted the number for fear of its effect on the property’s value.
It goes with the classic no 13th floor in a hotel and usually skips room 13 as well. Trains and airplanes apparently, which I am now going to check next time I fly, have no row 13 or a seat 13. Some say it’s related to the 13 disciples where Judas Iscariot was the 13th and betrayed Jesus. Also, Loki was the 13th guest at a dinner held in the god’s honour where he caused mischief by having one of Odin’s sons kill another.
It can also be associated with the date Jesus died hence the reason for thinking the number brings bad luck.
A more recent belief is that it is related to the movie “Friday the 13th” and having that as an ingrained media move to make us believe bad things happen with the associated digit.
A lot of other times it could just be because of your culture and upbringing by associating 13 as an unlucky number.
Of course, there is triskaidekaphobia (An extreme fear of the number 13) and this is still relevant today to people’s own beliefs in the superstitious.
You also have the belief that in numerology “12” is a complete set, so 13 is just uneven.
I think it’s silly to base your new home on what number you’re placed at on the street, and actively try to avoid buying that house but from the sounds of it, you could be getting a deal by buying the cheapest house on the block but ultimately loosing when it comes to selling time.