Ren figured everyone looked up information about a place before they moved in. Perhaps it was something that his parents had just instilled him. "Yeah, like the place used to be a hotel, and stuff like that." His research had really only lead him to that and details about the location of his new home. He figured though that if there had been rumors of hauntings then he probably would have come across something.
He could tell that he had upset her. He reached up and rubbed the back of his head and looked pretty contrite. "Uh, sorry about that. I didn't mean it how it sounded. It's just that, that is my mother's name and you don't look particularly Japanese." A smooth operator he was not.
His eyes wondered up in thought. He had never really thought about ghosts much. He liked scary movies and he had visited fabricated haunted houses back home during the Halloween season. He wasn't sure if he was scared or not, but he was curious.