[walshy]

Emigrated to new zealand 6 weeks ago and rented our family home out to a nice chinese family.

Turns out they werent nice as had a call this morning at 5 am to say police had booted the door in and discovered a cannabis factory.



Great

[Chaz]

:-(

[GreenMeansGo]

OMG. That is a nightmare and I am so sorry you have to deal with that. Not what you need at all. Good luck getting it all sorted out.

[JandM]

So sorry to hear that.

[janrzm]

Try and look on the bright side [ I'm sure that must be difficult right now] but at least they've found it relatively quickly. I hope that they've not done too much damage to your property and you manage to get it sorted out.

[Sam B]

What a nightmare

[aberdian]

Hah! I can (almost) trump that! We had a call from the police saying that a house of ill repute was being run out of our rented out flat - so we have sex and drugs now, who's got the rock'n'roll part? :)

Seriously tho, absolute nightmare, hope you get it sorted soon.......

[IanR]

It's quite common!!

Police scrap crackdown on Vietnamese drug barons - because it's racist

By STEPHEN WRIGHT

A police crackdown on cannabis factories run by Vietnamese drug barons has been scrapped after officers were warned their actions might be racist.

Officers have identified a burgeoning industry which typically operates out of anonymous rented houses in the suburbs and shires.

They had planned to write to property landlords warning them to look out for suspicious tenancy applications.

But it is understood at least one force has been found to be in breach of the Race Relations Act after specifically referring to Vietnamese nationals in its letters.

The development has infuriated detectives seeking to break the stranglehold of Vietnamese barons, who control 75 per cent of UK production of cannabis.

Senior police sources confirmed there has been an "explosion" in Vietnamese-run cannabis factories over the past year.

Often the whole house will be given over to cultivation of the drug with a small living area reserved for the "gardener", often an illegal immigrant, who tends the plants.

Sometimes the gangs rent up to four properties in a row from the same landlord.

Each house can produce up to four harvests a year, worth up to £600,000.

Electricity connections are often tampered with to offer a free supply to power the lighting around the plants.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-487788/Police-scrap-crackdown-Vietnamese-drug-barons--racist.html

I know a lot of properties rented to Vietnamese in Huddersfield have been found .. usually by the heat signature seen from above by police helicopters.
They rarely catch the tenants as they don't actually live there but in every case I believe that they had linked out the electricity meter...

[IanR]

By the way your agent (assuming you are using one) should have been aware of this type of problem - especially if they were paying their rent in cash!

[walshy]

yep, meter had been tampered with and they were paying cash, just hope insurance covers it, wiating for a call now

[ellenmelon]

Kind of a warning to anyone renting their home, whether its down the road or on the other side of the world. Hope the insurance comes through for you..

[925dancer]

This is where a good agent is worth their weight in gold. I work for a letting agent who have been in business for 13 years and only had a handful of bad tenants over that time.

It's harder to rent through us than get a mortgage at times!

[shakyle2906]

You poor things, I hope it all works out for you!

Sharon
x

[Achavar]

spooky, there was a raid in a former hotel in the town I work in over the weekend, chinese people and a cannabis factory !!

[Tobiwan]

It seems to be rather topical at the moment...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7892608.stm

[tea drinker]

Ouch!
hope it gets sorted soon.

[Scotty69]

Sorry to hear this hope it all gets fixed out soon

Natasha

[Debbie P.]

OMG, was that the one that was on South Today news a couple of weeks' ago? :eek: How awful for you