Re: Meth and pot - Landlord Forum thread 345307

Re: Meth and pot by Anonymous on May 30, 2016 @01:18

These renters were seperated by about seven years but here's how it worked for me. Let's call him Carlos. He was cooking meth in a little outdoor kitchen. I know what that stuff smells like, so I knocked on his door, offered him $500 to move out that weekend. As soon as I got the keys, I'd give him the cash. My BF at the time was was a drug cop and arrested Carlos on wants and warrents when he showed up at my house.

Kenny paid by the week and was a not too successful dealer. His name wasn't even Kenny. He got popped paying his rent with about $150k street value in his car.

Hubba had turned a freestanding garage into a 100 plant farm. When the SD got a tip, they called me for a heads up. I have several other tenants on that property---it's sort of a bungalow court. Gave him 24 hours to move his farm. He is on parole for DV (prison time) and left me threatening texts and voice mails. He did however move his "girls" to his rented home, where he, his wife and six kids under the age of 8 lived. He has four other children that have weekend visitation with him. The SD raided his place, popped him on a PV, popped his wife on a PV and put all ten kids in foster care. They both are being charged with a cartload of felonies, not the least being child endangerment to the tune of 10 kids x 100 plants. That's 1,000 charges right there.

I've also done just the regular cleanup for tenants who moved out and found drug paraphenalia. If this happens, stop touching stuff, call the police. They will get rid of the needles and drugs hidden in the darndest places---behind outlet covers, dropped down drains, on top of cupboards---places you'd never even think of looking.

I do have several paragraphs in my m2m plainly stating that growing marijuana is prohibited. Cooking meth is prohibited. Breeding dogs, cock fighting, raising fight dogs or cocks, illeagal or unlawful activities, such as prostitution, gang activites, producing porn and the production of child pornography, chop shop and selling or receiving stolen goods---all prohibited. Each line has to be initialed. And funny thing; those tenants who had the idea of doing any of that stuff don't want to sign! Then the deal is off and they are not my problem.

Your best protection is getting them out, even if you have to offer a relocation fee. It's cheaper than eviction and cleaning up. And it can be any amount. I've gotten bad tenants out for $50. Then I've had professional shysters try to shake me down for $5,000.

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Re: Meth and pot by anon on May 30, 2016 @05:22	[ Reply ]

looks like better screening on your part would prevent you from having so many tenants on parole or selling and manufacturing drugs?

Re: Meth and pot by Fred on May 30, 2016 @11:46	[ Reply ]

That's why I'm here now, to learn how to help prevent future problems.

Re: Meth and pot by Fred on May 30, 2016 @11:57	[ Reply ]

So you add the mentioned paragraphs to the lease offered on this site based on past rental experiences? I trying to picture how many pages that lease might be. lol I believe you said in another post that you do not do yearly leases at all. No exceptions to that? I thought I would be able to have a tenant removed with a 7 day notice to cure an issue and then if the offence was repeated I could have them evicted. With the M2M are you just shorting the time it takes to get them out basically right? Thanks for all these ideas for me to think about by the way.