Seeking guidance about meth labs from the EPA and her local and state health departments has left the mother of a 6 month-old-infant with unanswered questions. “I am currently living in a leased home that has a strange pervasive odor – its smells like a mix of smoke/wet drywall/chemical type odor. The home has been …..Read More
Ohio: The Cuyahoga Falls City Council is passing the cost of hauling away meth lab chemicals on to property owners, who are already required to pay thousands of dollars, sometimes tens of thousands of dollars, to decontaminate their property. According to Police Chief Tom Pozza, property owners are Tlikely to get billed somewhere between $1,000 …..Read More
Doctors couldn’t explain why Shanelle Borlase, a New Zealand renter, was suffering from so many health problems, despite a slew of medical tests. All that Shanelle could tell them is that she began having health problems about two months after she moved in to her new apartment. “At the beginning I suffered from absence of …..Read More
Thinking about renting or buying a home in Tennessee? Don’t judge a house by its cover! Meth can be made anywhere, including some very nice homes that are located in some very expensive neighborhoods. Before you buy or rent, have the home tested for meth, even if the seller or landlord gives you no indication …..Read More
“We moved into a rental home 7 weeks ago and it had been renovated. It began smelling like stale smoke once the new paint smell wore off and we asked the property manager if the previous tenants had smoked. He admitted yes. He said they trashed the place and left and that the property was …..Read More
A Michigan judge has ordered Ray Robinson, 51, from Alma, to pay his landlords more than $20,000 for contaminating their house with meth lab chemicals, in return for a delayed sentence. Robinson’s $21,000 methlab cleanup bill includes the cost of removing meth lab contamination from the home’s HVAC system and replacing other items in the …..Read More
Jacksonville, Florida: On Tuesday night, nearly two dozen residents had to leave their Park Place Apartment homes in Jacksonville, after a meth lab exploded on the second floor in an back apartment located at the 7541 S. Habersham Circle complex. Luckily, no one was injured by the blast, although the whereabouts of the couple who …..Read More
Should the government have the 90,000 foreclosed homes that it owns tested for meth if it rents or sells them? Considering the fact that close to 2.5 million homes in the U.S. are thought to be contaminated by toxic meth lab chemicals and exposure to those chemicals is a public health threat, the answer to …..Read More
Evansville, Indiana: A meth lab explosion, that caught two homes on fire and damaged two others at about 1 a.m. Sunday morning, came as a surprise to residents of Stinson Avenue. One of those neighbors, whose home at 1711 Stinson Ave caught on fire, told reporters that his dog’s barks woke he and his wife …..Read More
Hundreds of Oklahoma homes are being sold at auction, after their owners failed to pay their taxes. By state law, county treasurers can sell properties if no taxes have been paid to the county in 3 1/2 years and the property that went up for bid today have not had any taxes paid on them …..Read More
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