New House, New Problems

An incredibly prevalent trope in horror movies made within the last decade, New House, New Problems sees a new family move into a new home, whereupon strange happenings will begin to reveal themselves.

Film

 * Insidious: We in fact see this happen twice
 * The Money Pit.
 * Two first The Amityville Horror movies and the remake.
 * Ju-On and its American remake The Grudge: woe betide anyone who moves into the cursed house shown in this film series.
 * Walsh family in the second A Nightmare on Elm Street film has just moved into the house on 1428 Elm Street when Freddy starts making his comeback.
 * The Deetzes move into a Haunted House in Beetlejuice. However, the lackluster haunting job done by Adam and Barbara Maitland does nothing to scare them away.
 * A non-supernatural example in Panic Room. Meg and Sarah move into a big house in New York, and get trapped in the titular panic room by thieves the first night.

Literature

 * The Miss Marple novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.
 * Tends to happen in practically every other Goosebumps book.
 * The entire (innermost) plot of House of Leaves is built around this.
 * Coraline begins when Coraline and her parents move to a new house, which contains a door into a spooky Mirror Universe.
 * The hotel from The Shining, though the Torrances are only planning a temporary stay.

Web Original
""My name is Reginald P. Linux, and ever since my wife died, I've been very depressed. This is why I've been searching for the house of my dreams. But as a philosopher once said, be careful what you dream for, because you just. Might. Get it.""
 * Parodied in Something Awful's Doom House. Or possibly played straight, if it's possible to think of anything used there without being parodied. It's just a one-person "family", though. The house turns out to be.