Wyoming Realtor Warning

[jody_wy]

then there are buyers that with hold money till an environmental review and search is done... know one ranch that sold they didn't get much of the retained money back by the time the soil was cleaned up where they had treated posts.

[sunsprit]

Originally Posted by jody_wy

then there are buyers that with hold money till an environmental review and search is done... know one ranch that sold they didn't get much of the retained money back by the time the soil was cleaned up where they had treated posts.

due diligence can be quite a process.'

I've seen more than a few properties have ground water and/or surface contamination issues from arsenic pressure treated posts leaching out.

all of the properties I saw this way, nobody mentioned the fence materials. If it was a newer fence, it was touted as a recent improvement to the property. I first discovered a potential problem when I found the warning label still stapled to the end of a post located in a seasonal wetland (sub-irrigated pasture) adjacent to a stream running through a property. It was a new fence to conform with the plat of a 1/4 section parcel from a larger ranch.

Neither the listing agent nor the agent from their office that showed me the property said a word about the use of these toxic pressure treated posts across the pasture intended for grazing livestock. The warning labels are quite explicit about not using these in a wetland area due to the leachate. Can't legally be used in residential sites anymore, but were still available for rural dryland use.

Similarly, I've seen contamination issues from old in-ground fuel storage tanks that were seeping for a long time. These were not uncommon on old farms and ranches of yesteryear. Expensive to remove and mitigate the soil contamination.