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Real Estate/Development

Feb. 9, 2011

Landlords at a Loss When Crime Occurs

Illegal activities on rental properties can be an owner's worst nightmare, raising legal issues of liability and loss, and depriving them of access to their own premises and the income it could produce.


By Pat Broderick


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN DIEGO - After law-enforcement authorities burned to the ground an Escondido rental home to destroy the tenant's bomb-making materials, the landlord was left out in the cold. The owner lost the property and county officials refused to compensate for the loss.


Although extreme, cases such as the notorious "bomb house," the discoveries of sophisticated drug tunnels in warehouses near t...

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