Aside from any affirmative disclosure requirement, however, if you decide to list a property for sale, you should be ready with responses to questions potential buyers might ask about plumbing, humidity, and ventilation issues in your building. I asked about getting the full report and they refused.. so I contacted a lawyer and was able to get the report which clearly indicated there was a problem so bad that I shouldnt be in the apartment. We asked the owner to take care of it and then found us being effected from the home. I hardly have the money to do so-$100-and I have have just enough for 1st months rent on my new place. He even sent a letter to them saying this and that my condition would worsen if I was not removed from the building and the mold remediated. My landlord could care less, she is covering it up instead of removing it. When I returned, I found a work order on my kitchen counter for the laundry room door, but no humidity test. Over the course of the last 3 months or so I was progressively showing symptoms of illness but wasnt aware yet It began with the inability to get cool, sweating profusely, muscle ache, joint pains, headaches, and nausea All of which were at different times and didnt seem enough to be symptoms Then I was bitten by a black widow spider The bite started with a bullseye type wound, which increased the symptoms to almost unbearable The bite went away within two weeks and I seemed to be okay. The jury never got to the issue of personal injury. The water system was also built too close to the sewage system resulting in a small amount of fecal matter in the water. I am beginning to feel sick when in the apartment for a couple of hours or more and have headaches all the time when inside. NEW-A few small parts under my window where the a/c is, are long bubbles that are smashed easily in some spots- I only did a couple. Its just on going and I need someone to tell me what to do. But then I started to notice that the windows in each room have had water and there is water that comes through the back door. Its important to have a professional mold testing performed from an independent, third party company with no conflict of interest. This was on Dec 20th, 2011, on Dec 21st we got the results that showed 7 different toxic mold spores that were airborne. My apartment has 4 vents in it and all of them are covered in mold and though we have cleaned it several times, corp. has yet to do anything to try and fix it. How would I find out if the health problems I suffer from today are a result from my mold infection? Settlement: $7.2 million Once reinstated, Dr. Ordog did not reform. File complaint with the health department if there are dangerous conditions, You can file a suit for damages and rent return in small claims court, they will give you the proper business name for your landlord/owner. Dont waste your money. If your landlord has not returned your security deposit, you will want to reach out to them and ask them why. took damn long enough!!!! We had as management if we could break our lease and be compensated relocating cost so that we can live healthy lives. Meanwhile my copays are piling up. there was a little mold in the garage and we put in the lease that the landlord would have it fixed within 3 months. This building was know to have black mold. Ive never been in a situation like this before and dont know what renters rights are in Florida about the issue of mold and chemicals. Reading this article I get lots of information that you published. I remember a man coming in after the work was complete and doing a test so it could be signed off on. Also, its been found that some of the test kits already have mold! According to June 2013 allergy testing, Im allergic to Aspergillus and Alternaria-both mold, possibly/probably allergic to other types too. In that case, I have actually done extensive research regarding mold in the purchase not disclosed by the seller, as once we needed to get another living situation, we proceeded into purchasing a house And what I found out.. Is that if the seller was aware of the mold problem And did not disclose it at the time of the sale.. And in your case if they indeed replaced things like flooring etc. Can I take legal action against the landlords & make them pay for our medical expenses? I have been told I have smokers lungs. Its ironic that my husband and I are both having these medical issues and my children constantly have ear infections, respiratory infections, and nosebleeds. My son and I have experienced severe headache and nausea . Thank you, for your patience and support in advising me as to the steps that can be taken in this matter legally.I fear for my health after doing a lot of research and had a certified license contractor for mold/mildew to evaluate the problem free of charge a courtesy call seen conditions and advised me that a swab test should be done there is mold/mildew but air quality and further test would show what kind of spours of mold/mildew and AFTERSHOCK would only cause spours to go airborne. Legally reviewed by Chris Meyers, Esq. I also asked them to re-set my laundry room door, which has fallen off the hinges. If my landlord does it, I highly doubt I could get a copy of that report with what was found in my apt. Several of us could be suffering from the lack of care to our office and yet his money is more important than our health. After 5 weeks, we had the first heavy rain of the season. All rights reserved. I told her what we have been facing and she glady took my family and 5 animals in immediately. That lead to surgery to move a nerve in my elbow. As soon as I told the property manager my apartment was positive for black mold she advised me I could end my lease with no penalty which I did. My husband wanted the roof repaired and so he helped the man since another rain storm was coming. We are suing builder and bank for this reason and many other construction defects and do not know what type of doctor to go to. I was late delivering and my midwife ended up with pneumonia after visiting my home. However that slowed and when our family started staying home more our health problems started getting worse. A few weeks ago, I cleaned out a closet to find mold. would it even hold? If you have mold in your apartment, you will want to know whether you can sue your landlord for any harm youve suffered.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[250,250],'moldprotips_com-large-leaderboard-2','ezslot_3',167,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-moldprotips_com-large-leaderboard-2-0'); Landlords are not free to make up lease agreements with any clauses that go against the landlord-tenant laws in your state and are illegal. I dont think they believed me on the dark mold and a week later i cleaned the filter and washed of the mold on the front parts. ACLU and legal services of missouri arent returning any messages I leave them. I have been having health issues. Thanks in advance if you can help me. I am a mother who lives in HUD government assistance apt who goes to school full time and cant stay in my apt which is full of mold I cant take any of my stuff where am staying with a boy friend who has CGD my son breathing machine was ruined and I seem to get the run around when ask Attorney to help me and contacted many agency like HUD in KY, Washington, Frankfort the capital of KY franklin HEALth department to Bowling greens Chamber of covers to the city hall code enforcer to section 8 to home land to a lot and I cant get anyone to take me serious and I getting advice say I banned my apt when didnt I just cant be in with the conditions it in bc mold everywhere and they only painted over some spots not addressing the issue of it and through their towel they wiped off my wall into my clothes I need help with this situation, Its this old building i live in, i have been trying to get out by help of a group called H>O>P>E But nothingI been here 5 yearsabout 2 and half years ago the constant itching and ears popping my feet and legs swelling so bad and so painful. Ive made the landlord aware and he has seen the problem. Settlements awarded to tenants who sue their landlords for mold exposure tend to vary, but the compensation amount ranges from thousands of dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on circumstances surrounding the case. We looked at the home and knew that we would have to buy A/C unit . We have mold issues as well in our apartment. All over the place and not just in the tile cracks.. The landlord denied this claim. Does she have a case although I never received ANY notice of mold or potential mold? Its growing on my shoes, my windows, my entire bathroom, outside of the house, everywhere in the garage, in the kitchenbasically everywhere in the house because the air in the forest is so damp. All they keep doing is drilling holes in the back of it to unclog the mold so it will stop leaking water into the floor in the apartment. She has not offered to reimburse for the mold test either. They could not give us a report because management had paid for the investigation. apologize for the lengthly statement but needed to explain to the fullest the best I could,it goes on further that this tried to make it short. The Georgia Department of Community Affairs seemingly warned the board of commissioners about this problem of moisture prior to the set up of the building and approved the building location but not the modular construction; saying if they continue with the project it would be at their own risk. After a year of living there I woke up after a heavy rainfall to wet floors (no basemement). It also took him 5 months to fix my backdoor area that got ruined from all of the rain in Aug. 2012. Ive been sick for 3 1/2 months with some sort if lung issue because Im having problem catching my breath, have a metal taste when I cough and occasionally cough up blood. Someone may die who is not as healthy. He hasnt re-done any of the pipes down here in the basement and none of the damage from all these leaks has been taken care of. who deemed no water came from the ground, it came in the roof due to failed roof flashing on a roof that was 8 yrs old. Last time the ceiling leaked there was a HUGE puddle on the floor and it ruined part of my mattress. It took them two weeks with me being at the office nearly every day to send someone out to fix the damage and by that time mold has taken. I also lost 55lbs through all of this. My daughter has asthma and her, my son, my husband, and I are having breathing problems due to the mold, I have told her this repeatedly yet she still wont remove it. Mold In Military Housing Leads To $350,000 Verdict For Marine and Family In April, a Virginia federal court jury found in favor of Marine Gunnery Sgt. It is time UNITED WE STAND I called Housing and told them about the water, they sent a worker and I mentioned that there might be mold and showed him, he said he didnt know anything about that kind of stuff, but he was there to fix the water leaking problem. up to 4 in every where. Then the company that I work for, decided to move to another building. It has become so bad that whenever it rains, and about three days after, we have to put trash cans lining the hallways to catch all the dripping water which is brown and smells. I had to move my mattress out of the bedroom because of the leaking, I have not been able to sleep in my bed since the end of February the first part of March 2020. Ive showed her pictures of mold on my kids cloths, my shoes, on our furnice and on the vents. Good Luck! symptoms could be mood swing, bloody noses, and memory loss which seems to be the type of symptoms I am experiencing and I believe my children are experiencing the mood swing I can now use my hand but it feels like Ive been sitting on my hand. With that being said now my husband and I are epileptic when neither of us had any prior health issues. The bathtubs had whirlpool holes for a hot tub effect. I do not feel I will get my deposit back and I dont feel that I should be responsible for Februarys rent considering I cannot stay in the home. I need help and advice I just want a peace of mind. I have missed work, incurred doctor/x-Ray and medication bills, have no place to sleep and my landlord wants his rent. I bet if I went the rest of the year and didnt remind you the things that need to be done(bedroom ceiling) it would still be the same come next summer=still not fixed. In May, the family of one of the deceased patients settled a wrongful death lawsuit against UPMC for $1.35 million. Throughout all this Ive went to ER sinus stay closed/dry throat/coughing of thick dark phlegm/always clearing throat always fill like something in my throat that never come out/eye irritation with mucus/thinning of eye lashes/fatigue/weight loss/had upset stomach/trouble sleeping etc. We have used dehumidifiers that are like bags that we hang and they suck up the moisture, but even then, they are full in a day or two and we cannot afford to spend all our money on mold preventatives. It soaked the floor and the contractor said oh its fine it will just dry out. California maintains a law called a written disclosure law for mold. a week later i get a letter in my mail from my landlord that he reported mold in my bathroom. Today I had to go back to the emergency room, they said I am much worse, and have signs of pleurisy. I moved into his residence at 752 Clarence Edwards Road in Bethlehem, GA 30620 at the end of October of last year. I have not heard back from them yet. My grandson has a weaning cough and the doctors told him he is allergic to something. The state of California recognizes that mold poses a serious health risk, and has therefore mandated it with state mold disclosure laws. 8 months later, during rainy season, the same wall leaks, saturating carpet. So I looked online and sent an e-mail to them. My realtor came to me and I looked at the home and it had a new roof. I hired an attorney because after spending months cleaning, painting, laying carpet, etc and being so sick I could barely move the landlord decided unless I found someone to take my place and move into the home he wasnt giving me back my 500.00 deposit. I dont care how healthy you think you are. It falls under the EPAS indoor air quality regulations.. Ill forward the link to the statute in the next post and you can look into it.. I asked about seeing the apartment before signing the lease, because I still did not know what I was getting. Carpets were saturated items damaged and now the mold is getting worse, due to the manager lying trying to blame me for the Mold buildup in my apartment because on a nice day I open my windows and patio door to let some fresh air in my home. I called for a mold specialist to come out and run tests on the air quality. Another lady that worked in the office with me developed asthma also. Called the Housing inspector said to pull up carpet in the other rooms as well,manager left the other carpets. I also have been having unexplained medical issues in the past 6 months that have not stopped. If you get too bad, I would get out of that apartment and stay with friends until it is taken care of. My husband and I do not know what to do Our agent is telling us that he would put the house for sale and get us into another home and he would pay for all the expenses plus the down payment and any other fees we put into this house. My maintenance man recently came to check for leaks in my bathroom. The underlying facts reflect a common pattern. They want your money but wont be able to evict you during this time if you are paying at the courthouse. Two days ago we found moldnot sure if its black mold but it is black. The turned my water off last night and went home without even telling me. Months later he sent a handyman out who found nothing. Continue with Recommended Cookies, Mold, a microscopic fungus that grows in very damp settings, has been identified under Article 11, section 581 of the San Francisco Health Code as a health nuisance. Ive complain to them multiples of time but they just make me feel like im ungreatful for having at least a home to live in and that I shouldnt complain anymore. I hardly had use of my bedroom during the winter last year-slept on the couch in my living room most of the time so I wouldnt get sick anymore from sleeping in the bedroom. Thanks Lori, Me and my kids have been liveing in hud apartment for years and have contacked houseing over two years ago about the mold in my apartment.i was told to wash it with bleach.it comes back rite away.me and my son have had sevel helth prombles i beleave caused by the mold.houseing refuses to fix it and sid its my responsibility to clean it.iam a diabetic to and fear my family is at risk, I need help. The landlords send someone to the above apartment somewhere to fix something, but the only think i got for his ceiling was a can of Kilz. Miller noted that he himself had called most of the defenses own witnesses instead of waiting for them be called on directly and then doing a cross-examination. Im at wits end with this. Its everywhere. I dont know who to turn to or where I can go for help and when you tell doctors out here that youve had a fungal infection in the past they just look at you like youre stupid. She knowingly let us move into the home as many others knowing the house had this problem and for a fact i know this because they actually lived in the house we were the first to rent this house upon them moving out which she admitted to us upon renting that there daughter was very sick with allergies and they only wanted to sign a years lease in case moving didnt make her better and they wanted to move back. and will know what your babies and you have been exposed to. Ive had a minor pipe burst before and a couple of toilet leaks that were all repaired the day of. Our front closet has had a leak in it since we moved in, we have contacted the maintenance company several times and they have came and covered the mold in the closet and attempted to fix the leak on the roof (and failed). is there a way you can come over sometime this week and see what the problem is with my vent in my room? This was covered by my insurance company. In a hospital setting, fungal infections among a population of immune-compromised patients can be deadly. One thing that has always helped her was small cubed ice and hotels have those ice machines and she would eat or crunch on it daily.. A month and a half into living at the hotel, she then started to get worse and had to start to take the drug called Lasix because her ankles started to swell and showed signs of that being congestive heart failure. He owns mcmillen properties. What can I do? I work for a state agency. The landlord and I agreed that if I did the cleaning and a few small repairs he would give me three free months of rent. There has been allergy test and other test and could not figure out what it was from. I live in a ranch style 2 bedroom apt. It is one, very small spot in the condo, and they had no problem about it before we decided to sell. Confusion. I was admitted to the hospital the first time and had all kinds of tests all were negative. About 7 or 8 months ago, I noticed respiratory problems, burning and reddening of the eyes, red face, and arms, headaches, nausea, the list goes on and on. Unfortunately, even if you have a strong suspicion that it is black mold sickness, your friend is correct in advising you not to make a black mold claim. In 2017, Baxter International agreed to a $2.1million civil settlement (including a criminal penalty of roughly $16 million) for ignoring an employee's warning that mold had been found in air filters in a room where sterile iv solutions are fabricated. I have miscarried three times, my daughter has sever asthma, and my husband has a percent cuff but he wont go to doctor. My family has lost a lost due to constantly being sick. They then said they would seek funding but later said they could not pull together enough money. 4 to 5 weeks later the results came in and I was positive for Rhizopus mold, Aspergillus niger and some other mold but I cant remember the name of it. I am unable to live in my home, the Freddie Mac Loan is trying to foreclose. Related: Lawyer for Landlord Tenants Dispute, Can my landlord evict during coronavirus? After more than a decade and a half of legal battles over which personal injuries can be attributed to mold exposure, the parties liable for those injuries, and the extent to which mold is a health risk, controversies remain. That means providing common services for normal living conditions. he had an inspection and it failed there is leaking hot water tanks on both sides causing the floor to rot. All the extra things you stated I can use to help such as changing diet etc., that may help and I appreciate you sharing this with me. He fixed it a third time back in June 2013. He wants them out so he can update and rent at a higher price. I worked 12 hours at night and I could not have them there every day coming it everyday to do the same thing over and over. Just the very top part of the wall which was the top part of what made a big heart still needs to come down and be fixed. You do not want the mold that landed on her clothing to take root in her home. The processes by which you attempt to rectify this situation could be a great help to others who were subjected to mold in similar scenarios. The shingles flying off the roof, she said she would send someone out to fix the roof and never did. after you left on Sunday. take pictures of everything. Taking a Lowes test? In early 2016, Dr. Ordog pled guilty to health care fraud. Then I noticed small discolorations on the hardwood floor just outside the laundry room. On December 12th of 2006 I was hospitalized and had an IV of amphitocerin B (or something like that, I cant remember how its spelled but its a very potent antifungal). Mynlandlord wont fix it. What can I do what should I do and where do I start because I am really starting to worry that I have put my money into something that Im going to have to walk away with nothing. My husband work offshore and as soon as he returns home he starts sneezing and coughing also my grand daughter who lives with us coughs a lot lately.. Although the law allows for the adoption of permissible exposure limits, the state health department has determined that its not feasible to do so. The wood above our ceilings is rotted and black in the crawl space where it has been leaking. I had to start keeping a notepad to write down every little thing in order to remember.. Although each case is different, the general damages for mold contamination include: California was the first state in the country to pass a law dealing with toxic mold in residential rental property when the Toxic Mold Protection Act went into effect in 2001. Yes kill you. our home insurance cant help us as the seller told him he did all the work. I didnt think anything about it just thought it was dirt or something. I was told that if I move out I am breaking the lease, so would be responsible for paying the entire lease period. Plaintiff independently paid to have his unit tested. More than that they lied on the stand about it. 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