REALTORS TO HOST GROW-OP MEETING

Homebuyers should be warned if their prospective purchase was used in
illegal drug operations, a realtor says.

"We've heard about the elderly couple who bought a retirement home.
The next day, the neighbours told them it had been a marijuana
grow-op. The couple should know beforehand, not after," said Kelvin
Neufeld, president of the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board.

The board is hosting an invitation-only conference in Langley today
for 150 realtors, fire chiefs, police, councillors and municipal
staff, where the issue will be discussed. Currently, each municipality
has its own reporting rules. Neufeld will ask for a one-rule-fits-all,
but he acknowledged there are privacy issues to consider and the fear
of lawsuits.