Having the house appraised...

I am using tents in my basement. They said it should only take half an hour or so. It's not a home inspection (which I know are fairly extensive), but an appraisal. Most appraisers I've seen come in and snap a couple pictures and they're gone. Though that was on an apartment building that I worked at a few years back (and in another state). I'm not sure how they are with houses.

Keep the tents closed, smell all good, would help to remove some plants take pics of tomatoes inside and then if anything is asked resort to the pictures and tell them there in the night cycle so she cant see them, but you grow tomatoes or grow roses for sport, whatever you could get ahold of to throw in there. I never had a problem back in the day with anyone seeing tents in the basement of my house. They thought they knew, til ya showed them some magazines and pics of tomatoes flowers etc...Then they thought you were just a real big nerd-o.

most people wont know what the tents are for, but if they ask tell them you have a medicinal license to grow.

I'd would err on the side of caution since there is definitely a time to be paranoid. You gotta consider the worst case scenario especially when it comes to your home. I would imagine that financing would be revoked if for instance you are not in compliance with state law. Nobody wants that for a few flowers. Then again, even if you are in compliance, why would you let anyone in on what you do in your domain? You can't trust anyone with such info...lose the tents too. Just ma 2 cents.

kcbudluvr said:

I am using tents in my basement. They said it should only take half an hour or so. It's not a home inspection (which I know are fairly extensive), but an appraisal. Most appraisers I've seen come in and snap a couple pictures and they're gone. Though that was on an apartment building that I worked at a few years back (and in another state). I'm not sure how they are with houses.

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Housing lenders are not as cavalier as they used to be about appraisals. Now they really want to know what they are lending money on.

I had mine done two yrs ago for my now maxed out line of credit . They walked around the outside of the house. I was at work. The tenant thing would work though just change the door handle to a keyed one and say its rented. If he needs to get in tell him sorry and you weren't aware!! Say you can make arrangements when he gets back to enter (24 hours needed here). He's over seas working for 3 more weeks at an oil field and would be a bitch trying to reach him. Fuck i just convinced myself lol.

Lower, lower, little lower, on top of the smokies!

kcbudluvr said:

I have a toolbox on my truck that they may fit in if I lay them sideways. If I leave my tents up will that cause suspicion do you suppose? Like I said we have a lot of normal garden plants outside, so they may think nothing of it.

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Big trash bins work well. I've moved large plants in them before.

waterdawg said:

I had mine done two yrs ago for my now maxed out line of credit . They walked around the outside of the house. I was at work. The tenant thing would work though just change the door handle to a keyed one and say its rented. If he needs to get in tell him sorry and you weren't aware!! Say you can make arrangements when he gets back to enter (24 hours needed here). He's over seas working for 3 more weeks at an oil field and would be a bitch trying to reach him. Fuck i just convinced myself lol.

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The thing about this is it could be considered income he hasn't declared to the bank. I would advise against making up a story like this about someone renting the room. Unless he has a way to make it look legit on paper too. Even then I'd probably avoid stories, just take down the tents, move the plants really fucking carefully (if they're mid flower I'd actually probably just kill them because there's no fucking way you won't run a mega risk of being pulled over).

OGEvilgenius said:

The thing about this is it could be considered income he hasn't declared to the bank. I would advise against making up a story like this about someone renting the room. Unless he has a way to make it look legit on paper too. Even then I'd probably avoid stories, just take down the tents, move the plants really fucking carefully (if they're mid flower I'd actually probably just kill them because there's no fucking way you won't run a mega risk of being pulled over).

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Wow, you just pointed out wat could have been a major catastrofuck. lol but i think if you cover them up well, you could move flowering plants.
but not without stressing them out.

just find another appraiser who looks like he smokes weed and ask him to do it,, you know the only trick, slip him some money or weed,, your be surprised, that's what id do

your all blowing it way out of proportion, just keep it simple and slip him a 50

MarijuanaBug said:

Wow, you just pointed out wat could have been a major catastrofuck. lol but i think if you cover them up well, you could move flowering plants.
but not without stressing them out.

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Major stress man. IDK, I wouldn't trust the seal of a garbage can to keep the smell in for some of my plants. You could still make some good hash out of 5-6weekers.

ultrapro said:

just find another appraiser who looks like he smokes weed and ask him to do it,, you know the only trick, slip him some money or weed,, your be surprised, that's what id do

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Ah the bank chooses the appraiser not the homeowner, because that wld be a conflict of interest the way you suggested. you prolly don't own a home, so now you know.

abe supercro said:

Ah the bank chooses the appraiser not the homeowner, because that wld be a conflict of interest the way you suggested. you prolly don't own a home, so now you know.

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i did not know that, sorry , anyway goodluck and next time you decide to become a pillar of the comunnity, think on and separate your legal live from your illegal one,,,, wouldn't want to be you ,, ..

OGEvilgenius said:

The thing about this is it could be considered income he hasn't declared to the bank. I would advise against making up a story like this about someone renting the room. Unless he has a way to make it look legit on paper too. Even then I'd probably avoid stories, just take down the tents, move the plants really fucking carefully (if they're mid flower I'd actually probably just kill them because there's no fucking way you won't run a mega risk of being pulled over).

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I totally agree! I would move them!
But just trying to come up with alternatives. I would be pooping my depends.

Just another thought! And again I would be moving them. But re: income and it may be different here but its an appraisal of your house, not your income, all they do is appraise the house not you. Your income will not be on report. But again let me stress I would move them. Thats why i grow in a shed lol.

Thanks for all the responses everyone. After a day of sweating bullets I just decided to roll the dice and put all my plants in my tent with the carbon filter (I don't have one in my veg tent), and put all my legitimate gardening stuff on the table right next to it (seed packets, gardening magazines and books, etc.). I decided to go with the hidden in plain sight strategy because I figured it would look more suspicious if it looked like I was trying to hide something. I also hid anything that could be associated with weed and made sure there was no smell down there. I also went and bought a few baby plants from Home Depot last night and put them on the table on my deck so that it would look like I'm just hardening them off before putting them in pots or the garden out back. Dude basically poked his head in each room, said everything looks great, and was out of the house in about five minutes. I think I'm in the clear...I hope, lol.

abe supercro said:

Ah the bank chooses the appraiser not the homeowner, because that wld be a conflict of interest the way you suggested. you prolly don't own a home, so now you know.

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It's sort of a conflict either way.

reality? pay to play and we don't get to do it our way.

it's an independent appraiser.
the appraiser doesn't work at or for the bank.

I believe there is no conflict of interest the way it's done. If your hse is underwater figuratively, it's not the banks problem.