Another small business fails, can't take the heat!

go one yama.....
couldn't have said it better...

Does anyone here think the pot growers will be punished by the law?
Assuming the owner of the house is not involved, I sure hope the insurance covers the damage.
metalman.

"I SURE HOPE INSURANCE COVERS THE DAMAGE"

INSURANCE SHOULD NOT COVER THE DAMAGE! IN MY OPINION OWNERS ARE JUST AS RESPONSIBLE AS THE &41T HEADS THAT DO THE GROWING. OWNERS SHOULD BE MORE VIGILANT. INSURANCE COMPANIES SHOULD NOT PAY THESE CLAIMS FOR ABSENTEE OWNERS THAT DO NOT DO DUE DILLIGENCE WHILE RENTING. SOME OF THESE LANDLORDS ARE BEING PAID CASH FOR THEIR RENT...RED FLAG SHOULD GO UP. WE ALL PAY FOR THIS THROUGH INCREASED PREMIUMS. THE CITY SHOULD ALSO CHARGE THE LANDLORD FOR THE COST TO PUT THE FIRE OUT. DRUGS ARE OVERRUNNING OUR CITY ITS TIME TO FIGHT BACK.

I am not sure as to whether or not insurance covers this kind of illegal activity but if it didn't,then the owners of these places would perhaps think twice about it.
Any kind of criminal activity should automatically void any insurance!

All easy to say giterdun and andyfreeze, but reall hard to do when you are a landlord, esp. if you are using a management company to run things (even just temporarily). It is not all that easy to detect a grow op without inspections (if it is only a hundred plants of so). Not every grow op is run by obvious miscreants. I had an otherwise nice family in a place of mine. I discovered a grow op when i had to fix a water leak (so i could enter the place without notice). THisd thing was larger than 100 plants and was totally invisible until you get right into the room involved. Well, actually it was ALMOST undetectable, i heard the fan while working in the adjacent room.
The point is that it is rediculous to talk about fining landlords when they have not broken any laws. You law and order types should appreciate this more i think. If you want to fight the drug problem, fight it, dont pass it off on people who provide rental housing. And dont use words like 'absentee landlords'. What does that mean anyway? Do all landlords have to live in town? Or perhaps one should only be allowed to rent out parts of buildings one lives in? There are a lot of people out there who have had to move and were not able to sell their properties. This was esp. true a few years ago when you couldnt give them away. What are these people to do? board them up and pray some addicts dont shoot up in there and cause a fire? I suppose the owners should be denied insurance and made to pay for the fire eh?
The downtown area known as the hood is in bad shape. It got that way not because of landlords actions but because of city planners who concentrate low cost housing and certain services in the areas. It got that way because many of the people who live there wink at lawlessness, or are involved in it. It got that way because they police are unable to stop it and seem to be growing unwilling to try "the witness is not cooperating wiht police". It got that way because the PG downtown went downhill and a lot of good people were no longer willing to live there. The supply of good tenants went down and landlords were forced to take a chance, only to be rewarded, at times by tenants destroying the place and stiffing them for rent.
I have rented to all types and none of them looked, acted, or talked like drug dealers, growers , or addicts. I would not have rented to them if they did. No amount of rent would make up for the damage these losers do to the place. Most applicants had references, even from their sainted mothers. Some of them turned out to be bad people, even deserving some jail time in my opinion. Others, who might have looked a little off, turned out to be model citizens. They all, in my opinion deserved the benefit of the doubt, which i gave them when they rented from me. Few of them deserved a landlord that pestered them with madatory inspections of the premises for illegal activities.
One last thing: I dont think anyone with a brain thinks that the cops could close every grow op in PG. If they did then they would have to move to the whole of the regional district (i hear people mostly own their houses there, so inspections every month would be tricky).
And from there there is the rest of the world to control. The drug culture has to be tackled directly. Educate people, stop giving them excuses, keep them from ruining their lives on crime and drugs. Report crimes when you see them. And most of all, each and everyone of us has to take responsibility for their own actions, without excuses.

Well said caranmacil.

Landloads as spies? Don't want to go there, ever! Would rather give pot full status with beer way before I'd want to turn our society into a police state.

Legalize and tax... let us give it a try. If it works out worse than what's going on now we can always go back. But that won't happen because the truth is that pot is far, far less dangerous than any other drug, legal or illegal. The misinformation going around on this subject is rife and the truth is suppressed.

An unpopular law is an unenforceable law.

"Police and Fire officials continue to guard the scene ..."

...but were too stoned to offer comment.

;-)