Applicant wants to grow grow medical cannabis, has medical card

[Jack B.]

It's technically legal in WA to grow it with a medical card which he says he has and would gladly show me. I don't know what the effect on insurance would be or if they can prohibit it. He is offering to pay higher deposit and rent. Heck he could have done it and probably gotten away with it for a year before I did an inspection, and last few years I have not done any inspections as I've had higher class tenants.

What say ye?

[JD Martin]

I personally don't have anything against it one way or the other but I personally wouldn't rent to him. 

1. It is against Federal Law. Marijuana is still Schedule 1. There's nothing to stop the DEA from smashing down your door and hauling him and his plants off to jail and leaving your house a wreck.

2. I generally discriminate against smokers of any kind. If I smell cigarette smoke on you there's a reasonably good chance I won't rent to you. 

3. Growing requires a lot of water and a lot of humidity, both of which are not good for a house.

4. Growing requires a load on the electrical panel. I don't want any tenants adding anything to my electrical panels, period. 

5. Growers attract people that you may not want on/at your property.

Reading through the guy's e-mail to you, it sounds like he does this *all the time*, which makes me wonder why he doesn't just buy his own place and do it in his house. The cynical part of me says that he doesn't because he knows he would be putting HIS assets in harm's way, since the Feds can seize the property in which it takes place - so he'd rather put YOUR assets at risk.