There is moisture based mold growing in our apt, what should I do?
I lived in the same apt complex last year, and just moved to a different building. There is a moisture-based mold growing in odd places...on the walls wherever we had stuff hanging, on the doors, in the microwave, in the cabinets, sometimes we find it on our dishes. It's blackish/grey and if you rub your fingers on it it will come off on your hands. My roommate, who has lived in the same apartment for a year, said it's beein going on since she moved in a year ago. I notified the management a week ago, and they said they put in a work order, but this apartment complex is horrible with timely maintenance.
The complex is only a year old.
I dont want to live with mold, and I also would love to find any little type of legal action I can take against them, because I want to move out of there. What can I do if they don't do something serious about this mold problem? It's not something they can just paint over, which is what they did in the past.
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You should file a complaint with the local housing enforcement agency and/or health department. Get copies of any reports they file or testing they do.
If you want to break the lease, you should first build a paper trail by notifying the landlord by certified mail of the mold problem, taking many photos, and you may even want to hire a mold consultant to take a few samples to document the mold (other tenants may be willing to pool money with you to have this done).
If you unilaterally break the lease and move out without backup documentation of the unremedied mold problem, the landlord can sue you for rent due to the end of the lease.
buy some vodka and put it in a spray bottle, wipe down everything, that stuff even eliminated some black mold in the house I bought. Mold has not come back.
Slumlords are responsible for the safety and maintenance of their property. Mold can be very dangerous so unless it's cleaned up immediately I would move out. If the slumlord starts to complain, let him. You have the right to live in a safe place.
I previously lived for 4 years in an apartment that my parents own, and not long ago this year a report confirmed the black mold that had developed in the shower, as well as in the entire apartment complex. I haven't lived in the apartment for a year but my parents had to entirely refit a new shower & seal the immediate wall at a cost of 5k. I developed many symptoms of mold allergy including anxiety, insomnia, and - most severely - hair-loss! All the owners including my parents recently attended a meeting with the body corp, and all want to take joint legal action (towards our local government body, as the original builders went bust) in an attempt to recover costs of repair for problems with mold, leaks & overall poor workmanship, in the individual apartments as well as the entire complex. it looks like it could go over several years at a rediculous amount.
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