So I've been house hunting lately. Yesterday I stumbled upon a house in a VERY nice neighborhood for under 200k (recently reduced from 230). I called my agent who said we could see it right away, as it is vacant and listed as "easy to show". Apparently, "easy to show" is code for "unlocked, with no key box".
It was once a very beautiful house. It is now likely home to a squatter. The first thing we noticed when walking around the back side of the house was that the AC unit had been ripped apart (scavenged for copper tubing). Undeterred, we walk in and find that pretty much every wall has had a giant holes in them. As this is "cosmetic" my wife felt that it would be easy to fix and we moved on. The main level bathroom has had the shower pipe removed (not just the head, there is a hole in the wall where the pipe would come out). Someone had been washing things in the sinks or the plumbing had backed up (all coated in filth) and the hot tub in the sunroom still had standing water.
Then we hit the garage. No power in the place, but as soon as I opened the door the smell of Rot hit me. Then I saw the couch (making me realize that someone was most likely sleeping there). At that point, I ushered my wife and our agent out of the house and to the front (as it was dark in the garage and I was concerned that someone was actually in there and hiding).
Then it hit me. Something between a normal head ache and a weak migraine (more towards the normal head ache scale, but about twice as intense). Then I started being itchy on my arms, legs and scalp. We immediately headed home and showered. My wife wasn't experiencing the same problems, but she didn't get near the garage like I did.
Today I still have the headache, although it is in line with a standard headache.
So for those of you who are knowledgeable of such things, was I exposed to meth (either where it had been smoked or cooked) or am I just being paranoid?
It was once a very beautiful house. It is now likely home to a squatter. The first thing we noticed when walking around the back side of the house was that the AC unit had been ripped apart (scavenged for copper tubing). Undeterred, we walk in and find that pretty much every wall has had a giant holes in them. As this is "cosmetic" my wife felt that it would be easy to fix and we moved on. The main level bathroom has had the shower pipe removed (not just the head, there is a hole in the wall where the pipe would come out). Someone had been washing things in the sinks or the plumbing had backed up (all coated in filth) and the hot tub in the sunroom still had standing water.
Then we hit the garage. No power in the place, but as soon as I opened the door the smell of Rot hit me. Then I saw the couch (making me realize that someone was most likely sleeping there). At that point, I ushered my wife and our agent out of the house and to the front (as it was dark in the garage and I was concerned that someone was actually in there and hiding).
Then it hit me. Something between a normal head ache and a weak migraine (more towards the normal head ache scale, but about twice as intense). Then I started being itchy on my arms, legs and scalp. We immediately headed home and showered. My wife wasn't experiencing the same problems, but she didn't get near the garage like I did.
Today I still have the headache, although it is in line with a standard headache.
So for those of you who are knowledgeable of such things, was I exposed to meth (either where it had been smoked or cooked) or am I just being paranoid?
. It's probably just a mold, man...not exactly harmless, but...I came into this thread expecting things.
