This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

Joining me today is Ramsey Personality, Christy Wright.

Dan is in Portland, Oregon. Hi, Dan. Welcome to the Ramsey show.

Hi, Gabe. Thank you, Christy, for taking my call.

I live in a nice condo complex in Portland, and I sit on the HOA board.

About three years ago, we had a stepdad, who was kind of a prominent attorney in the area,

decided to buy one of the condos for his two stepdaughters, who, shortly thereafter, decided to turn the condo into a meth lab.

Oh, God.

So basically what occurred is about two months before hazmat and the drug interdiction team rated the location.

Stepdad did a quick claim deed handing it over to the two stepdaughters.

So now since then, the unit's been closed up.

We had the locks changed on it. Casmat took the toxic chemicals out of the location. However, they left everything else in there. All the garbage, the needles, the syringes. I've got the pictures. It's horrific on the inside of this condo, and they're nice condos.

So we've been trying to figure out how do we go about trying to get this unit cleaned up?

Do we take it out of our HOA funds and clean it up and put it under a lien?

Can you go back on a quick claim deed and challenge it?

Or currently the courts are backed up on foreclosures and and putting it up for auction so we figure it's another year or two before

it'll even come up for auction we don't want to let this unit sit and draw rats and

any other vermin that may come in.

It's about 10,000 owned and the property taxes, $6,000 and the HOA fees that we have a lien on.

But we can't get the state or the city to come in and clean it up.

Do you know, do you have any idea what's owed on the condo?

The CPAP pay cash for it.

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