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    Hi


    Just a word of warning to all landlords. Last week we entered one of our properties as rent was 3 month overdue to find that the 'antiques dealer' which was renting our building had setup a large cannabis factory. It has cost us well over grand in repairs, plus we have to pay for the electricity company to reconnect the supply. Overall its been very costly, but the police said the damage is very small compared to what they usually find. I hear they are also targeting residential too. I've had a look around and there doesn't seem to be any kind of criminal compensation for us to get, if anyone knows better please let me know. The tenant found our private advert on Gumtree, and although i like Gumtree, just be careful!!!



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    These things seem to be popping up all over the place. What alarms me is the BBC has shown 2 programs in the last 60 days which show the big profits (£100k from £10k in 6 weeks) and the easy availability of the required hardware. I think a quick scan of YouTube for growing videos and someone has everything they need to get started.
     
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    No im not a member of the RLA, im more annoyed that the police cut the electricity, which i understand is for safety but now the electricity company want £600 to connect us again. They caught a 'farmer' in there but he is only 15 from vietnam.
     
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    This is very popular all over the country. I made a tidy sum when a landlord friend of mine who rented his house out to a vietnamise family found his property had been converted into a grow house. He had no idea of the value of the equipment, I picked up around £800's worth (resell value) for a meger £60.

    Why would there be compensation for you? If you rent your house out and somebody commits a crime in there do you honestly think you deserve government funded compensation? I know I wouldn't want my tax money going towards that.

    On another note, the money these people make surely shows how high the demand is... maybe the government would be wise to follow Hollands policys and make alot of money in the process?? Just a thought...
     
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    sumodaz said:
    No im not a member of the RLA, im more annoyed that the police cut the electricity, which i understand is for safety but now the electricity company want £600 to connect us again. They caught a 'farmer' in there but he is only 15 from vietnam.
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    He was only the "baby sitter" The growers use people like that so they don't get caught.
    Have you spoken to your MP about this?
     
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    CrazyCrisUk said:
    This is very popular all over the country. I made a tidy sum when a landlord friend of mine who rented his house out to a vietnamise family found his property had been converted into a grow house. He had no idea of the value of the equipment, I picked up around £800's worth (resell value) for a meger £60.

    Why would there be compensation for you? If you rent your house out and somebody commits a crime in there do you honestly think you deserve government funded compensation? I know I wouldn't want my tax money going towards that.

    On another note, the money these people make surely shows how high the demand is... maybe the government would be wise to follow Hollands policys and make alot of money in the process?? Just a thought...
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    Why didn't your friend report this to the police?
     
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    When we lived in Canada our rental house had some odd looking damp patches. We subsequently found out what the previous tenants had been up to ie a canabis grow op. The landlords had tried to patch up the damage but just done a superficial job. We were actually in a very nice residential neighbourhood, pretty much the last place you would expect a canabis "factory".
     
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    vvaannmmaann said:
    Why didn't your friend report this to the police?
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    Because they'd done a runner, obviously got spooked and left the equipment in a hurry, there were no live plants left there at the time and if he had told them then the police would most likely confiscate the equipment and sell it at police auction, and not give him a penny... so it was in no ones intrest to do so.

    Probally not the morally correct option but then again since when have the police been a shining moral example, I just did what they would do but paid him for it :p
     
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    No problem, maybe if you guys think you can rent out your houses and make an income without being bothered to go check them every other week it wouldn't happen.

    Don't try to shift the blame onto me when lazy landlords don't even know whats going on in there houses. Anyway, the people I sold it too could be growing tomatos or using it for one of the other million and one legitimate uses, its none of my business tbh and its certainly nobody elses.
     
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    CrazyCrisUk said:
    Because they'd done a runner, obviously got spooked and left the equipment in a hurry, there were no live plants left there at the time and if he had told them then the police would most likely confiscate the equipment and sell it at police auction, and not give him a penny... so it was in no ones intrest to do so.

    Probally not the morally correct option but then again since when have the police been a shining moral example, I just did what they would do but paid him for it :p
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    Pretty sure that the both of you could land in hot water over this - tampering with evidence, interference, handling stolen goods even?

    You will also find that the same Plods who have their hands tied behind their backs and can't really do much about the growers etc will suddenly be very enthusiastic about arresting you.
     
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    CrazyCrisUk said:
    Why would there be compensation for you? If you rent your house out and somebody commits a crime in there do you honestly think you deserve government funded compensation? I know I wouldn't want my tax money going towards that.
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    So perhapse i should have not reported it like your friend did and sold all the equipment to you?
     
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    More than £600 down, thats for sure, and your right, we have only been left with mounds of compost, they took all expensive equipment. As for what you said about 'lazy landlords don't even know whats going on in there houses'. In fact what we did by just letting ourselves into the property was illegal but we had no other choice, other than getting a court order to enter, as there was no way to contact the tennant. Because we did check when we did, we managed to stop them from selling any cannabis. Maybe you should tell your friend he's lazy as they had already managed to sell their crop? Its harder than you think to be a landlord.
     
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    I remember a similar but more serious problem in the states where private houses are used to set up methanphetemine factories.

    The nasty chemicals used often leave residual traces strong enough to cause health problems for the luckless tennants that move in after them.


    CrazyCrisUk said:
    On another note, the money these people make surely shows how high the demand is... maybe the government would be wise to follow Hollands policys and make alot of money in the process?? Just a thought...
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    Certainly would be one way to solve the governments financial crisis in one stroke.
     
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    I'm not having a go at you and I honestly do respect what you do and how hard and the work that goes into being a landlord. I was just defending myself from the people implying that I was imoral scum because of what I did and offered to do.

    Anyway I hope you get it sorted mate... I do think its wrong that the police will gladley take anything worth money, sell it at auction and leave you out of pocket.

    Like somebody said contact your local MP and see if he can help because you did do the morally and legally right thing and have suffered as a result, which isn't right is it tbh.

    Anybody read in the paper last week about the woman who's daughter was kidnapped when somebody stole her car with her daughter in the back seat. Anyway police compounded her car, are charging her £150 to get it back and extra £20 a day she takes.

    Anybody who thinks the police are on your side is deluded tbh
     
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    flapjack said:
    bloody criminal scum, they just need to go get a job like the rest of us!!!!!
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    Exactly what's so criminal about a plant, if anything growing these things makes the environment better (excluding the energy usuage). Weed was only made illegal by the large corporations years and years ago as the plant was used for literally everything and they would lose alot of money, cut a long story short they ran a smear campaign in the media to make people think this plant was evil and to this day they still do silly media stunts for this plant when the facts are simple no one has ever died through smoking weed yet thousands a year die from drinking and that is legal. My point to you would be stop reading all the crap the government wants you to read and listen to, make your own mind up and think for yourself.
     
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    i'm not disputing the fact the cannabis is an has its benefits with wide spread, positive uses and i agree with your rather condensed version of the family guy episode dedicated to "weed".

    What i object to is the people who are ransacking hard working landlords property portfolio in search of a quick buck. The plant is a weed, gardeners spend most of their life trying to kill them to no avail. So i fail to see how something that grows wild at the side of the road in france takes so much equiptment and destruction to grow in a HOUSE kin the UK. surelly there is another way that is less anti social.
     
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