Greetings and salutations my fellow lovers of all things oil.
So I'm driving home from Church this afternoon when I took a shortcut home. Lo and behold, what do I pass but a house with a big "FOR SALE" sign placed noticeable in the front yard. I stop.
The house is an older home, built in the 70's, concrete block construction. Nice little yard with flowers and planters. A little pleasant walk way leads to the inviting front door. The curtains are open so I peer inside.
ACH DU LIEBER!!!! The interior has been completely gutted. No walls, no bathrooms, no kitchen, no nothing. Just a big, empty room with a bare concrete floor. The interior is completely covered with insulation - the kind of insulation that comes in 4x8 sheets with the shiney silver backing on one side. This same insulation also covers the ceiling and literally, every foot of ceiling, (as in every 12 inches in every direction) is a light fixture hanging from the ceiling.
I make the journey to the back yard. Nice little back yard surrounded with a brand new privacy fence. The yard itself is empty but along the backside of the house are rain barrels which are filled with rain water from the roof.
There's a little back porch which is filled with empty pots, (the cheap black plastic kind).
While I'm the first one to say I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, I'm guessing this was a "grow house."
I'm thinking, how in the world does this happen? I checked our county property appraiser website and discovered the house is owned by a bank, (in foreclosure). Did the previous owners "buy" the house and set up this grow house? And if so, how is it that they cannot be "tracked down" and arrested?
The house is in an older neighborhood, but it seems nice - yards all around are well kept and it's quiet. People were out walking their dogs and threw me a friendly wave. No junkie cars or loud music. There's even a little park across the street with well kept grass and nice shade trees.
I'm thinking of buying this little house for my daughter as the house she is currently living in is tiny, (700 square feet - this "grow house" is around 1200 square feet).
What would be the dangers/downside to this? If they simply grew a "herbs," I'm thinking the most they would have used was something like Miracle Grow and no serious chemicals. Frankly, even though I am a part time farmer, I have no idea what they use and how they grow illegal substances.
What I see as the plus side to this is I could probably get the house very cheap as there's literally nothing to it but four walls and a roof. I could rebuild the rooms, (doing the work myself), new bathrooms, kitchen, etc and my daughter would end up with a practically brand new house, bigger than her current one at a fraction of the cost.
What say you guys - what would be the good, the bad or the ugly in this situation.
So I'm driving home from Church this afternoon when I took a shortcut home. Lo and behold, what do I pass but a house with a big "FOR SALE" sign placed noticeable in the front yard. I stop.
The house is an older home, built in the 70's, concrete block construction. Nice little yard with flowers and planters. A little pleasant walk way leads to the inviting front door. The curtains are open so I peer inside.
ACH DU LIEBER!!!! The interior has been completely gutted. No walls, no bathrooms, no kitchen, no nothing. Just a big, empty room with a bare concrete floor. The interior is completely covered with insulation - the kind of insulation that comes in 4x8 sheets with the shiney silver backing on one side. This same insulation also covers the ceiling and literally, every foot of ceiling, (as in every 12 inches in every direction) is a light fixture hanging from the ceiling.
I make the journey to the back yard. Nice little back yard surrounded with a brand new privacy fence. The yard itself is empty but along the backside of the house are rain barrels which are filled with rain water from the roof.
There's a little back porch which is filled with empty pots, (the cheap black plastic kind).
While I'm the first one to say I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, I'm guessing this was a "grow house."
I'm thinking, how in the world does this happen? I checked our county property appraiser website and discovered the house is owned by a bank, (in foreclosure). Did the previous owners "buy" the house and set up this grow house? And if so, how is it that they cannot be "tracked down" and arrested?
The house is in an older neighborhood, but it seems nice - yards all around are well kept and it's quiet. People were out walking their dogs and threw me a friendly wave. No junkie cars or loud music. There's even a little park across the street with well kept grass and nice shade trees.
I'm thinking of buying this little house for my daughter as the house she is currently living in is tiny, (700 square feet - this "grow house" is around 1200 square feet).
What would be the dangers/downside to this? If they simply grew a "herbs," I'm thinking the most they would have used was something like Miracle Grow and no serious chemicals. Frankly, even though I am a part time farmer, I have no idea what they use and how they grow illegal substances.
What I see as the plus side to this is I could probably get the house very cheap as there's literally nothing to it but four walls and a roof. I could rebuild the rooms, (doing the work myself), new bathrooms, kitchen, etc and my daughter would end up with a practically brand new house, bigger than her current one at a fraction of the cost.
What say you guys - what would be the good, the bad or the ugly in this situation.
