Last weekend an old friend came through Syracuse for a memorial service. We went to school together way back when and reconnected around our last reunion. He was from my "hood" and we shared that. He is also a Realtor in Colorado.
We had lunch at The Sherwood on Sunday. He'd been away so long he honestly didn't know where it was, except that it was in Skaneateles! Now he does, and the lunch awakened memories of his mother bringing him and his brother and sister to the Village for a day away from our Westcott Nation neighborhood. Even back then people loved Skaneateles.
We talked about this and that, what people were doing, whom we had seen recently. Then he told me about courses he had taken for continuing education to keep up his license. One of them was about marijuana, and how to handle the new law in his state and the ramifications of it for real estate.
I had just seen a house that most likely had been used as a "grow" house, at least according to a code enforcement officer. We smelled something as I turned the key in the lock, and then realized what it was when we saw the lightbulbs. So how is that disclosed?
In Colorado it should be done, he was told. It's beyond belief to me that there could possibly be a part of the state disclosures that asks: "How many plants have been kept in the house?" "Are there still plants on the property? If so, what are their locations?" I am imagining, I don't know.
How does a Realtor handle walking into a house that openly displays plants? You are allowed - it is legal - to have two producing, mature marijuana plants in your home, and two immature, non-producing (at the time) plants. There is no reason to hide them.
On his way to an appointment he saw the Gas & Grass station and took the photo I reproduced at the top of this blog, and sent it to me. It's also hard to believe that grass is still illegal in parts of this country, and that people are fined or even go to jail over it. As he says, "Colorado is just different than New York." That it is.
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