Health or safety concern

[Doug Wegener]

Conventional assignment on a rural property. There is an old hot tub and some junk clutter on top including an old window from the updated kitchen. It is well removed from the house in back yard, 150 feet or more. I would like some other opinions. Would you consider this a health or safety issue?

 

[Fernando]

Looks like junk.

 

[swandel1]

I would assume it is drained? If so, personal property in the junk category.

 

[Doug Wegener]

Probably drained.

 

[Fernando]

Doesn't add value. Negative value in that it cost money to throw away the junk.

 

[Fernando]

Reminds me of my rental. A previous contractor threw away the debris in my crawl space and I didn't know. Cost me hundreds to have another contractor throw it away in his minvan.

 

[Mike Ault]

Would you consider this a health or safety issue?

I would not. If the property were in my state I'd be more worried about "snakes in the grass" than any of that stuff. Don't know what kind of poisonous vipers (if any) Oregon has. That falls in the "junk and debris" category and one could make the argument that it affects marketability, and a picture should be included, although I wouldn't make that argument either. I do a lot of rural, and I could generally find something like that out on almost any limited acreage parcel that I cared to look hard enough at. If you're worried about it, include the picture, but you're going to need to explain exactly "what the health and safety issue is" if you're going to call it such. I just don't see one. "Unsightly", yes. "Unsafe", not seeing it.

 

[Doug Wegener]

I would not. If the property were in my state I'd be more worried about "snakes in the grass" than any of that stuff. Don't know what kind of poisonous vipers (if any) Oregon has. That falls in the "junk and debris" category and one could make the argument that it affects marketability, and a picture should be included, although I wouldn't make that argument either. I do a lot of rural, and I could generally find something like that out on almost any limited acreage parcel that I cared to look hard enough at. If you're worried about it, include the picture, but you're going to need to explain exactly "what the health and safety issue is" if you're going to call it such. I just don't see one. "Unsightly", yes. "Unsafe", not seeing it.

Thanks , appreciate the input. We do have rattlers here.

 

[Fernando]

I would not. If the property were in my state I'd be more worried about "snakes in the grass" than any of that stuff. Don't know what kind of poisonous vipers (if any) Oregon has. That falls in the "junk and debris" category and one could make the argument that it affects marketability, and a picture should be included, although I wouldn't make that argument either. I do a lot of rural, and I could generally find something like that out on almost any limited acreage parcel that I cared to look hard enough at. If you're worried about it, include the picture, but you're going to need to explain exactly "what the health and safety issue is" if you're going to call it such. I just don't see one. "Unsightly", yes. "Unsafe", not seeing it.

That's not a health and safety issue.
I had this large deck built like 4 feet above ground.
As y'all knowI take care of my properties but I neglected my home's redwood deck which somehow deteriorated over time.
I had some bandaid fixes but one day alone in my house, I was walking on the deck and my leg went through one of the boards.
I thought I was going to fall down into the abyss and no one would hear me.
I looked at my leg and it was bleeding badly.
In a panic, I hurried drove myself to emergency and got my leg fixed.
After that, I got rid of my decaying deck. Don't want my gardener to break a leg.

 

[Zoe]

If a neighbor complained, our local govt might pay the owner a visit and give them a time frame to clean it up. Different jurisdictions are different. Local govt can make people clean stuff up like that especially if a neighbor complains. Health and safety might be a stretch. I don't know what it would cost to clean it up. You could do an adjustment to clean it up and include the picture. I don't know how far the local dump is or what somebody would charge. You could estimate what it would cost to clean it up because who is going to want it if the property sells. The bank is not going to want it.

The new buyer is not going to want it. The current owner don't want it.

It may have a little salvage value. That might be a stretch. I don't know if there is a motor or something in that hot tub. I don't know how much aluminum might be in there.

If you had to hire someone to take it to salvage yard or dump? The salvage value probably would not pay for the cost to get rid of it if you had to hire someone to take it off.

That is why it is setting there.

They may not want snake bit either. Snakes like hot tubs. Mosquitos too where I live. I guess you could go health and safety on snake den or mosquito den. Child drowning maybe. I don't know.

Bank is not going to want it there if they get that property back in their portfolio.