Are
you concerned that your property may be contaminated or may have been formerly
used as a meth lab?
Do
you wonder if there’s a way to find out if your property has been tested before?
The
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) maintains a list of contaminated homes reported by law enforcement as
Clandestine Laboratories. However, this list only contains labs discovered by
police departments, and that represents only approximately 5% of the number of
meth labs present,
according to law enforcement. Homes known to have been used as meth labs must
also be disclosed in real estate disclosures.
Still,
many homeowners across the nation have found themselves unknowingly buying a home
formerly used as a meth lab. The costs of properly remediating a home contaminated
with methamphetamine can easily reach into the tens of thousands of dollars, which can lead to dishonest
or incomplete real estate disclosures.
These
sites can be very useful to find out if your property has been used as a meth
lab. But it doesn’t include every case. If you want to dig deeper, the next
step is to have a methamphetamine inspection company run testing to determine
if your property needs decontamination.
