Reasons Not To Buy a Home Formerly Used For Growing Marijuana In

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If you are looking to buy a home, one of the things you should look for is if it was previously used to grow marijuana in. The so called grow-ops homes are sealed off to keep the odor of the pot plants and heat generated from letting others know that a large scale marijauana growing operation is taking place in the home. The problem is that these homes typically have terrible mold issues afterwards.

A real estate agent in Quebec, Canada may lise her license because she made a business out of selling these homes and not disclosing it to the potential buyers. Could you imagine that on the disclosure form? Central heat, check, Basement, check, Pot Farm, Check. Yikes!!!

Doing a little research this is a fairly big problem. See here, here, and here.

A Quebec real estate agent is under fire for allegedly refusing to disclose marijuana grow operations to prospective home buyers.
The Quebec Real Estate Agents’ Association has accused Debbie Fung, of Brossard, of selling homes without mentioning whether they were former grow-ops.
“If the agent is aware of it, he or she has the obligation to inform the buyer about that,” the association’s Claude Barsalou told CTV Montreal.
The association also claims Fung sold at least 12 houses so they could be used as grow-ops, and is now trying to revoke her license.
As of Wednesday, Fung was unavailable for comment.
The association has already taken away the license of agent Alicia Ho, who was also accused of failing to disclose whether a home was once a grow-op.
Antoinette Menard was one of Fung’s clients. After she moved into her home in St-Constant, south of Montreal, she noticed an unpleasant odour.
“It was all mildew,” she said.
The presence of mold was a likely sign the house had been used to grow marijuana in massive quantities. Grow-op owners generally seal off homes and re-wire electricity to power lamps to grow their crops.
Menard said she thinks Fung knew about her house’s illegal past, but willfully kept the information a secret.
Home inspector Brian Crewe said he has seen several homes wrecked by large-scale marijuana operations.
The modifications are either masked when the homes are put up for sale, or it becomes too expensive to fix and clean the homes and they are destroyed.  via CTV.ca