She and her boyfriend, Rob Quigley, 31, were in love with the century-old twin in Bristol Borough, and love can be blind.
There was plenty of space for her crafts and his computer. One of the four bedrooms could easily be turned into a nursery when the time came.
The location was perfect: a short drive to his graphic-design job in Hamilton, N.J., and a straight shot down 95 to South Street, where she buys clothes for a vintage shop.
"We couldn't wait to get started," Rob said.
They moved in March 1. Five days later, he met their neighbor taking out the trash. She was glad that the young couple had moved in, she said, and that the former occupant was not coming back.
Now she had Rob's attention. "She told me he was in a biker gang, and this used to be a meth house."
Head spinning, Rob walked into the house and broke the news to Jenn. Together they rushed upstairs to the computer and did something they said they wished they had done before they bought the $190,000 house: They Googled the address, 334 Jefferson Ave.
The third hit was a site called Homefacts. They were living in a former meth lab, all right. A second page, by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, ended any remaining doubts.
Some more searching yielded a list of symptoms that exposure to meth chemicals causes.
Sore throat, check. Watery eyes, check. Irritability, well, that could be from the meth, the moving, or the idea of the meth. But, check.
Swabs taken from five rooms showed the presence of methamphetamine, the greatest concentrations in the basement and master bedroom.
Three days later, Jenn and Rob moved out.
Taking the advice of the tester, Andrew Yurchuck of Bio-Clean of New Jersey, they threw out everything they couldn't douse in Simple Green. Friends moved them into Rob's mother's house in Newtown, where they have lived ever since.
Unfortunately, they don't have much of a next move.
