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usonian

(13,581 posts)
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 03:15 PM Oct 2023

San Jose house listed for $1.5 million comes with meth lab. Buyer gets the cleanup.

Last edited Sat Oct 28, 2023, 03:48 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/27/san-jose-house-listed-for-1-5-million-comes-with-meth-lab-buyer-gets-the-clean-up/
Vista Park home was previously used by suspect in bombings of PG&E transformers


Not blocked, though Mercury News articles usually are. Use archive.md if so.
https://archive.md/2U3Ue

If you’re on the market for a San Jose fixer-upper, here’s a doozy: This one can’t be legally inhabited until the inactive meth lab inside is cleaned up. The list price? $1.5 million.

It’s being sold as-is — and the purchaser will get it sight unseen. At least on the inside. No access to the house will be provided before the Santa Clara County Health department gives its approval, the property listing notes.

The San Jose home, about a block north of Gunderson High School, was raided in March of this year as part of an explosives investigation targeting 36-year-old Peter Karasev, who investigators said was using it as a base to stockpile bomb-making chemicals and methamphetamines.

Over the course of four days, San Jose police and explosive specialists with the FBI and National Guard uncovered “homemade liquid explosive, multiple energetic homemade destructive devices and multiple suspected destructive devices,” unspecified bomb-making materials, and pipe bombs, the Mercury News previously reported


Here's the Google street view photo and then the zillow photo. (Merc news used the Google one! )



Zillow:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/668-Potomac-Ct-San-Jose-CA-95136/19708245_zpid/

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brush

(57,365 posts)
2. That ugly thing is going for 1.5 M...
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 03:35 PM
Oct 2023

as is? And is a fixer-upper? That price is gonna have drop quite a bit before they even get a nibble.

Fiendish Thingy

(18,324 posts)
3. I'm guessing other homes in the neighborhood go for $2-2.5 million
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 04:08 PM
Oct 2023

This is in Silicon Valley, where even secretaries at tech companies get stock options…

brush

(57,365 posts)
5. I don't doubt the going price without the meth lab and bomb factory...
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 05:11 PM
Oct 2023

has to be higher, but they're all ugly as sin and crowded together...no acreage for all that dough...oh well. It's Silicon Valley.

MenloParque

(534 posts)
4. That's a Silicon Valley Special!!
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 04:12 PM
Oct 2023

Last edited Sat Oct 28, 2023, 04:58 PM - Edit history (1)

Meth is a big problem with Silicon Valley Techies. Lots of software engineers at my Fortune 100 company are hooked on stimulants including meth. Thankfully we have a really good inpatient program in Big Sur free to all employees to utilize.

usonian

(13,581 posts)
6. My former brother in law's former home 😄 looked just like that. Nearby in Alum Rock.
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 06:10 PM
Oct 2023

Welcome to DU. I had some pretty psychopathic bosses in the valley, none on drugs that I know of.

Just posting a possible poster boy for drugs.

Muskovite.

https://democraticunderground.com/100218407563

usonian

(13,581 posts)
8. I think that Karasev made the mess himself.
Mon Oct 30, 2023, 05:58 PM
Oct 2023

It probably was in good shape before he made it a shop for explosives and drugs.
Just my guess.

Some of these labs burn up and go boom. Lucky for the neighbors that this one didn’t.

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