According to statistics from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, methamphetamine seizures peaked in 2012 – when officers removed about 10 thousand pounds of the drug off the streets. That year, Jennifer McQuerrey Rhyne started Affordable Cleanup LLC in West Virginia. When the drug team and police leave the scene, Rhyne steps in to clean up the dangerous residues a meth-making operation leaves behind.
“I’ve been a landlord since 2001. I started buying houses so I owned a bunch of rental properties,” Rhyne said about Affordable Cleanup LLC’s inception. “As I would go to these landlord conferences, we had on a couple of different occasions a speaker from the state and he would talk about how horrible these situations are and the cleanup process. Back at that time, there were only three companies (in the state) that did cleanup.”