A while back we decided against making an offer on a particular house because it had asbestos siding. My thinking was that it would just cost too much to remove and I couldn't justify living in a house covered in a known carcinogen no matter how safe they assured me it was.
Recently my buddy has also been looking at a similar house and found that it is totally legal to remove the shingles yourself and take them to a facility but if you pay someone to do it, then they have to do the whole 9 yards of HazMat removal.
He also claims that the risk of needing Mesothelioma treatment from this is fairly low as a simple mask can protect you from the dust and problems only arise from repeated exposure not one time exposure.
Still, he is braver than I am. I'm still not sure I would have wanted to mess with it, short of wearing a full under water diving rebreather apparatus that took in no outside air whatsoever.
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