SWAT raided neighbors-will landlord be notified?

[ORMom2Four]

This morning, in our very quiet, family neighborhood, a swat team raided our next door neighbors house We have heard through the grapevine that it was a drug raid and the search warrant was just signed recently.

The people there have been renting for the past 2+ years. Will the landlord be notified of the raid? I'm hoping he will FINALLY evict them!

 

[Tuffcookie]

All depends, what for.

If they were manufacturing drugs, most definitely.

TC

 

[threecrazykids]

This morning, in our very quiet, family neighborhood, a swat team raided our next door neighbors house We have heard through the grapevine that it was a drug raid and the search warrant was just signed recently.

The people there have been renting for the past 2+ years. Will the landlord be notified of the raid? I'm hoping he will FINALLY evict them!

Or you could call the landlord and speak with them about the situation. They may have no idea what went on in the house even though the rest of the neighbors would feel it was obvious.

I have friends who are landlords for multiple properties, and they had NO clue that a meth lab was in one of the tenants bsements until after they were finally able to evict them.

If you are calling as a concerned neighbor I'm sure the landlord (if decent) will at least hear you out if you're concerned.

 

[ORMom2Four]

I'm not sure what kind of drugs, but we may know at noon--the news reporters are here filming.....

 

[bcla]

As residential landlord, I'd note that the use of a premises for illegal activities is almost always grounds for an eviction with 3 or 7 days notice. However, I suppose any law enforcement activity could put a hold on clearing a property.

There's a place near where I live that gets a lot of this stuff. When I had a theft of stuff outside, the cops said this particular house had lots of cameras outside, but they almost never shared anything with law enforcement. It sounded like they had these cameras to tip off if the cops were coming. I remember when there was an arrest warrant served at this house and people were just watching it like it was a spectator event. Once there was a murder suspect who crashed and abandoned a stolen car in this neighborhood. The cops suspect that they came into our neighborhood because the suspect knew someone in this particular house and might have been looking for a place to hide. In the morning we were awoken by the cops surrounding this house and using a bullhorn to order the suspect out of the house, but apparently he wasn't there. However, they're not renters. We understand that a woman bought this place years ago when it was pretty cheap and her adult sons are living there with her permission. Nobody ever talks to them and they pretty much don't acknowledge anyone else in the neighborhood. Everyone avoids eye contact with the occupants of the house, and they've got almost every window sealed so nobody can look in. This is just weird.

 

[minkydog]

Maybe, maybe not, but I'd definitely be calling them!

 

[clh2]

If you know the landlord - you can call. It would be much harder if you don't know who that person is!

If I were the landlord - I would want them out ASAP - but if it is a crime scene - the landlord may not have a lot of rights.

Hopefully - there isn't any damage to the house!

 

[bcla]

If you know the landlord - you can call. It would be much harder if you don't know who that person is!

If I were the landlord - I would want them out ASAP - but if it is a crime scene - the landlord may not have a lot of rights.

Hopefully - there isn't any damage to the house!

There are various laws that could be assessed if a landlord knew of criminal activities that affect the neighborhood and did nothing about it. Most such laws deal with drug dealing, but I suppose the production of drugs might reduce property values. Certainly with meth labs, the cleanup costs can be astronomical.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...th-meth-labs-becoming-a-growing-industry?lite

Over the last decade, tens of thousands of homes have been used to cook meth, according to federal data. About 25 states have laws related to meth cleanup. Some states, such as Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, place meth homes on quarantine lists. Some properties on Tennessee's list date to 2006, underscoring the years it often takes for some properties to be cleaned. Cleanup costs can range from $3,000 to $25,000, depending on the home's size and the amount of contamination.

I wouldn't put it in terms where the landlord is under the impression that a lawsuit is forthcoming. However, I'd hope that a landlord would be proactive about protecting the value of a property.

 

[ORMom2Four]

Thanks everyone! The news station just left after being here for hours! They will air the story tonight.

After some digging, I was able to find the name of the owner of the house who is a local realtor. I sent him an e-mail link with the most recent internet info on the bust and let him know his house will be on the news tonight.

 

[barkley]

As residential landlord, I'd note that the use of a premises for illegal activities is almost always grounds for an eviction with 3 or 7 days notice. However, I suppose any law enforcement activity could put a hold on clearing a property.

There's a place near where I live that gets a lot of this stuff. When I had a theft of stuff outside, the cops said this particular house had lots of cameras outside, but they almost never shared anything with law enforcement. It sounded like they had these cameras to tip off if the cops were coming. I remember when there was an arrest warrant served at this house and people were just watching it like it was a spectator event. Once there was a murder suspect who crashed and abandoned a stolen car in this neighborhood. The cops suspect that they came into our neighborhood because the suspect knew someone in this particular house and might have been looking for a place to hide. In the morning we were awoken by the cops surrounding this house and using a bullhorn to order the suspect out of the house, but apparently he wasn't there. However, they're not renters. We understand that a woman bought this place years ago when it was pretty cheap and her adult sons are living there with her permission. Nobody ever talks to them and they pretty much don't acknowledge anyone else in the neighborhood. Everyone avoids eye contact with the occupants of the house, and they've got almost every window sealed so nobody can look in. This is just weird.

dang, your situation sounds like one a former co-worker went through (in the bay area). one house in an otherwise decent neighborhood causing police activity, increased crime and general ill ease among the neighbors (most of whom were on-site owners).

she and her neighbors dealt with it for a couple of years and finally banded together. they did a free consult with a lawyer to see what it would cost to start proceedings under the California law that lets a property owner sue another for devaluing their property rights and value. the group ended up paying the lawyer to write a letter that detailed their intent to sue, how much the lawyer estimated they could be awarded individually and as a group (California's real estate disclosure laws can cause devaluation of property quite a bit w/ problems like this), estimated legal fees....

best as I can remember it only took 2 letters before the son's of the absentee owner were out and the house was sold


op-as for your original question, not sure-I know someone whose rental was raided (tenants had turned it into a grow house). they didn't find out until the read about it in the newspaper.

 

[bcla]

dang, your situation sounds like one a former co-worker went through (in the bay area). one house in an otherwise decent neighborhood causing police activity, increased crime and general ill ease among the neighbors (most of whom were on-site owners).

she and her neighbors dealt with it for a couple of years and finally banded together. they did a free consult with a lawyer to see what it would cost to start proceedings under the California law that lets a property owner sue another for devaluing their property rights and value. the group ended up paying the lawyer to write a letter that detailed their intent to sue, how much the lawyer estimated they could be awarded individually and as a group (California's real estate disclosure laws can cause devaluation of property quite a bit w/ problems like this), estimated legal fees....

best as I can remember it only took 2 letters before the son's of the absentee owner were out and the house was sold


op-as for your original question, not sure-I know someone whose rental was raided (tenants had turned it into a grow house). they didn't find out until the read about it in the newspaper.

Honestly it's only been a couple of incidents. However, it makes us well aware that the occupants are way different than the rest of the neighborhood. It's pretty obvious that the police suspect that if illegal activities aren't going at this place, they're at the very least associating with shady people. I've talked to other neighbors, and few know who they are or what they do. We do get that mom bought this place years ago and lives a few miles away; she's occasionally talked to other people. We live in a neighborhood where we might not know the names of everyone on the same block, but where we at the very least smile at each other on the street or acknowledge each other. When these occupants leave the house, they put their heads down and don't make eye contact. I think I've talked to one person living there, and only because I was working in our front yard and all of a sudden a garden hose burst in their driveway and I thought the neighborly thing to do would be to tell them about it.

I think that mom is keeping this place because she bought it in the 70s and it barely costs anything to keep it now. You can look up tax assessments, and this place has an assessed value that suggests that's when it was last sold.

I'm not even sure we can do anything now since there hasn't been an incident in a few years. Still - it feels odd.

 

[marmalade]

You don't by any chance live in WNY do you?

 

[Sgt Mickey]

You don't by any chance live in WNY do you?

I was going to ask the same thing. Second meth lab found in Fredonia and pictures of the house were all over.

 

[bcla]

Meth labs are everywhere. However, in California there seems to be an extremely high concentration in the poorer Central Valley from Redding to Bakersfield.