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It's tragic, I've heard of kids dying because they were renting in a place that was a former meth lab. Landlord was sued and paid dearly, but that doesn't bring back a young child back to life.

They couldn't understand why they were so excited to buy.

The funny thing about meth lab houses is that not even the neighbors want to believe it's a meth lab and worry about retributions for getting involved regarding reporting to the police. Gotta be careful who you rent to as well.

The Realtor didn't know..

Call it Crazy says

Hey, it could be a second income stream for them!!

LOL. Pay off the mortgage in no time.

Do the cookers not also live in the house? Are they made of stronger stuff than the average bear? Or are they getting sick and dying too?

I read a better version of the Klamath Falls story somewhere else. They opted not to do a property inspection. They most likely didn't pull police records. They didn't talk to the neighbors.

One wonders if their agent was raising red flags.

underwaterman says

Simply force police to register the house in a national database like megan's law if there was an arrest for meth or drug related crimes with details on the crime.

I wonder how it would affect the value of houses if people could see the history of crimes that took place there.

underwaterman says: "This is the reason why you need some form of govt to regulate this stuff to protect people. The industry will never do it themselves, conflict of interest."

I read the articles and it appears that such regulation wouldn't have helped much. There was no arrest for a meth lab hence a "Megan's law" wouldn't have made a difference. A chemical test would cost $1500 which is not chump change. I was amused at a proponent arguing that the "seller" would pay but imagine... if a deal falls through and they relist a few times, that would start to add up. And the cost would be passed onto the buyer either through higher prices or when they later needed to resell.

wow, this man buys a meth house, and the realtor lies to him saying the house is safe to live in.

http://methlabhomes.com/2009/01/colorado-health-department-tells-home-owner-to-use-bulldozer-on-his-meth-lab-home/

underwaterman says

From what I know about mold, they don't really remove it, just seal up the worst parts so I imagine it is probably the same with meth since the fumes would get into every nook and cranny of the house.

so if they do that with meth houses, there is no way to remove it. the house is pretty much done for.