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You see thats the problem with eBay. You think you've bought a house for $1.75, but they screw you with the tax, and don't get me started on the postage.
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Kosh: Not necessarily. I have an uncle who cleans meth labs so they can be resold legally, and with a lot of the really awful places the cleanup costs more than demolishing and rebuilding. Regardless, cleanup is rarely "cheap."
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Nothing says it wont just be re-occupied by methheads once it's cleaned up.
There are likely many other things needed before anyone coule really live there- is the house safe structurally? Electrical problems? Plumbing problems? Plus, anything not nailed down would have been sold for drugs.... Selling it "as is" is unlikely if the realtors sold it on flippin Ebay and fixing it up would probably be costly.
OTOH, she could pay for an assesment of the land and property (if not allready available from the seller) and donate it to charity- the tax write-off would certainly be worthwhile.
Maybe habitat For Humanity would be intrested: they just build fresh in such corcumstances.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Nothing says it wont just be re-occupied by methheads once it's cleaned up.
Oh, but of course. But if a meth house gets busted, it legally can't be re-sold until it's clean. (The definition of "clean" varies from state to state, of course.) That's not to say that it can't illegally be re-sold, but if it's been sold by a realtor who didn't at least disclose its history, let alone ensure that it's been cleaned, that realtor would be in some serious shit.
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quote:Originally posted by HopefulNebula: Kosh: Not necessarily. I have an uncle who cleans meth labs so they can be resold legally, and with a lot of the really awful places the cleanup costs more than demolishing and rebuilding. Regardless, cleanup is rarely "cheap."
Yeah, we had some stories on the news about people buying what ended up being Meth marts. They lost their money and couldn't sell the places without doing the clean up.
It was really bad here for a while, with new places being busted every day. It's down a good bit now. They might find one a week.
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Imagine the scumbags showing up at all hours on your doorstep to buy drugs after you've spent thousands cleaning up the place and making it livable.
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I've been going through that, cleaning up a motel where the previous managers were the dealers. Fun stuff.
Then the spent crack whores as an added bonus.
10 months from a place with a drug dealers and crack hoes to Child Services approved.
Sorry, no pets.
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