Great lesson to pass it on. (The Goodness of America).

In February 2001, Lisa Schmidt and her children moved into the home she had purchased in Murray, Utah. Before long, they were plagued with unexplained health problems ranging from headaches and leg aches to diarrhea and bloody noses.

Neighbors told Schmidt that in 1999 the police had conducted a drug raid searching for methamphetamines. It was the first she had heard about it. She contacted the Utah State Health Department, which sent an inspector. She was told to watch for, and to clean up with bleach, any yellow substance that might seep through walls or ceilings.

When yellow stuff began appearing sporadically, she dutifully scrubbed it as instructed. But when the baffling illnesses continued, she decided in September of this year to expend $900 for another, more thorough, house inspection by a private firm. Inspectors found copious amounts of methamphetamine remnants throughout the house -- in walls, ceilings, cabinets, floors, and air. As reported by Salt Lake City's Deseret News for September 28th, "The legal limit for inhabitability of a house is .01 parts of meth present. The report ... showed the basement bathroom [where meth was made in a bathtub] at a whopping 56.0. Other rooms were not far behind." The last renter, it turned out, had made meth in the house. In fact, authorities had already arrested him, but not until he had moved Out and was producing meth elsewhere.

Needless to say, the bad news devastated Schmidt. She now faced the loss of all furniture and personal belongings, a $6,100 bill to cleanse the house down to its framing studs, and around $25,000 to have it refurbished. Barred from entering (except to remove furniture and personal belongings ...