Meth Lab Homes

Meth Lab Homeowners

Minnesota: Couple unknowingly buys house from meth lab cook

All that Kristi and Justin Keller wanted was a home to call their own, where they could someday raise a family of their own. After years of saving their money for a down payment, they [Read more...]

Indiana: The Sabatino meth lab home story

In 2006,  Julie McCoy Sabatino bought a small two-story house in Churubusco, Indiana, an affordable home where she dreamed of happy days together with her 10 year old son.  But, health problems began, just a few weeks after [Read more...]

TN Holt family update: Hope fades as meth lab bills pile up

Several months have passed, since I was first contacted by Rhonda Holt from Winchester, TN, and my most recent conversation with her was distressing. [Read more...]

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The Bates Family: Three tours in Iraq and and now a meth lab home

John and Jessie Bates, a newlywed couple from Suquamish, had a healthy bank account, one car loan, and no debt, in 2008. John, 34, had completed three tours in Iraq with the U.S. navy, and came home to find a job as a pipefitter in Bangor. [Read more...]

Missouri couple unprotected by meth lab disclosure law

Jason Dowdell and Michelle Dilorenzo, a Missouri couple, should have known they were buying a contaminated meth lab home, according to the state’s disclosure law, but they didn’t. [Read more...]

Single mom Andrea Wagner buys contaminated meth lab home

Stow, Ohio: Andrea Wagner bought a meth lab home on Meadowbrook Boulevard for $147,000,in January 2006, not knowing that she was buying a home contaminated with meth lab chemicals. The seller, who bought the home at a Sheriff’s auction never told her [Read more...]

Arkansas: The Cornell family meth lab home

McRae, Arkansas: Hazel and Clarence Cornell lived in a trailer for a year, after they found out that the home they bought in 2001 had once been used as a meth lab.  Soon after they bought a new home where they hoped to spend their retirement years, health problems began.  [Read more...]

Winchester TN: Rhonda Holt Interview – Part I

In 2004, Rhonda and Jason Holt bought a home in Winchester, TN, never knowing that the home they were buying was a former meth lab. For the last 5 years, they have been living in a contaminated meth lab home with their 3 children. [Read more...]

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Winchester TN: Rhonda Holt Interview – Part 2

In Part 2 of my interview with Rhonda Holt from Winchester, TN, Rhonda continues to tell me about the health problems that her family experienced while living in a contaminated meth lab home. Listen as Rhonda explains to me what happened during and after the birth of [Read more...]

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Colorado Health Department tells home owner to use bulldozer on his meth lab home

Tim Young’s realtor told him that the home he was thinking about buying from them had once been a meth lab. But, they also told him that it had been cleaned and it was perfectly safe to live in. It wasn’t.

Tim has asked me to share his meth lab home experience with you through his words and pictures.  His hope is that by sharing his story, others might be able to avoid the tremendous losses that he and his mother have had to endure.

Here is Tim Young’s experience with meth lab homes, in his own words. [Read more...]

Letters

Utah attorney talks about meth lab disclosures

I’m a personal injury attorney from Utah. To determine whether your house is a former meth house, you will want to check with your state Department of Housing to see what type of requirements there are for sellers to [Read more...]

Hives appear after living in WV rural home

When I moved into a very secluded rural home In WV, I suspected meth cooking or meth use inside the home. First off, when I cleaned the walls in the master bathroom, I used Mr. Clean and the rags turned bright pink. The color of a benedryl capsule.

I also had to pick a massive amount of tape off of the same walls, as if someone had taped up a ton of [Read more...]

Stains appearing on painted walls in old house

We moved into an older house and cleaned a ton as the previous owner had a lot of big dogs. We also painted everything, but after a while there are stains coming through the paint that look like [Read more...]

Renter concerned that neighbors are cooking meth

I recently began wondering if I was in fact living above a Meth Lab. Some of the behaviors are a little different than were described in the research here, but my father is a heavy meth user. He started by smoking it in the service then injected it when the result of inhaling massive [Read more...]

How to clean a stove stained by meth chemicals

I have recently purchased a stove off craigslist, and during cleaning have decided that red dye has been scorched into/on the cooktop (enamel) I was able to get it out of the oven but [Read more...]

Can a meth lab home cause blisters on your feet?

I have a friend renting a small house. She has blisters on the bottom of her feet that keep re-occuring. She just found out that a tenant had cooked meth in the house. Could these blisters be caused from the meth?

Does cleaning a house really well remove meth from home?

I just moved into a trailer that my boyfriends cousin lived in before us. they got busted for meth about a month ago. We had no idea that they were doing that stuff. [Read more...]

An important message from the teenage son of a meth cook

Hi, my name is Justin. I am 14 yrs old, and my dad was a meth manufacturer. He did time in prison for it a few yrs back and it nearly broke my heart. I finally got back together with him and [Read more...]

Renter gets sick after living in bank repo meth lab home

My boys and I moved into a rental the end of June of this year.  The owner layed new carpet and new laminant (fake wood) flooring throughout the house except the bathrooms and [Read more...]

First time home buyer says meth lab disclosure nixed deal

I just backed out of buying my first house.  We were disclosed that it was a meth lab and didn’t think twice when we were told that the place was cleaned up.  We figured that the owner [Read more...]

Letter from a step mother to meth endangered children

Thank you for posting this site!! I am a step parent to 4 children that have a meth abuser mother and the youngest almost died at 6 months old from the meth. [Read more...]

Viewpoints

Attorney Generals on Meth

“Even as we are doing everything we can from the law enforcement aspect, we have a generation of addicts out there. We don’t have adequate treatment facilities. We know how to put people in jail, but I think we all need to recognize there is more to this problem than incarceration.” – Kentucky Attorney General Gregory D. Stumbo (D). [Read more...]

The Meth epidemic according to Sheriffs and County Associations

The National Association of Counties found that methamphetamine is the number 1 illegal drug problem for 47 percent of the counties in the United States, a higher percentage than that of [Read more...]

Effingham County Georgia Sheriff Jimmy McDuffie

“We’ve put a big dent in the drug traffic in this county, but if you draw back, it’ll come back. Anything that goes unchecked comes back. [Read more...]

Meth lab cooks are like terrorists says Florida fire marshal

When detectives from the Bureau of Fire and Arson Investigators from the Florida State Fire Marshal’s Office arrived at a meth lab at Fort Walton beach, they found more than a few Coleman fuel cans and empty Sudafed packets. [Read more...]