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Write a clause in your offer to buy that your offer is only valid pending the results of a mold inspection/air sample quality survey. It takes two weeks and costs you about $500.
If the air samples come back with abnormally high CFU (which I found out is colony forming units) or with any of the myotoxin forming molds like stacky (black) then you can simply walk away from the offer to buy.
Do not hire an inspection company that also does remediation!!!!!!!!! Odds are you will get “told” there is mold so they can get a job out of it. Use an independent certified lab. I actually took the air samples myself with a machine that they borrow you, and then they incubate your samples and measure them. They have no interest in any further $$ from you so you are more likely to get an honest reading.
Or you can fly me down and if I get a headache then you pass on the offer. 😥 It would be the cheapest option sadly.
Oh noes! That’s terrible! And with levels that high, damn straight they knew about it. Especially in the outside (was this on the balcony, or right outside the windows? My fiancee was wondering).
Don’t ask me to visit anytime soon, my sensitivity to that kind of stuff would kill me there. 🙄
Hope you can prove they knew about it. With levels well over the legal living conditions, they probably were getting sick from it, and decided to unload the place onto some other poor sap. Who unfortunately became you, I’m afraid. 🙁
Dragon87 wrote:Don’t ask me to visit anytime soon, my sensitivity to that kind of stuff would kill me there. 🙄
Considering I can’t really go there myself, I wouldn’t be inviting anyone over.
I’m sorry, Snap, that really stinks. I wish there was some way you could go after the previous owners legally.
YUCK! I’m so sorry Snap. Best of luck in proving their renovations caused it, or that they knew about it.
My cousin’s house (she’s going through a divorce), was being renovated by her ex-husband for over 10 years! He still hasn’t finished it (we don’t know where all the money that went to the repairs went, other than the meticulous records my cousin kept, that he never knew she kept). Needless to say, you can’t walk into some of the rooms upstairs. The back of one door is literally black, top to bottom with the same type of mold. All of the 3rd floor is like that. Some stuff that was left up there, my cousin, her son and her daughter just said, forget it! The walls in the house are totally penetrated with it. The house is the responsibility of her ex now though (she was living with her parents and just moved in a few houses away from us with her son, renting). Surprisingly, the ex-husband is trying to sell the house for $160K!
siberakh1 wrote:YUCK! I’m so sorry Snap. Best of luck in proving their renovations caused it, or that they knew about it.
My cousin’s house (she’s going through a divorce), was being renovated by her ex-husband for over 10 years! He still hasn’t finished it (we don’t know where all the money that went to the repairs went, other than the meticulous records my cousin kept, that he never knew she kept). Needless to say, you can’t walk into some of the rooms upstairs. The back of one door is literally black, top to bottom with the same type of mold. All of the 3rd floor is like that. Some stuff that was left up there, my cousin, her son and her daughter just said, forget it! The walls in the house are totally penetrated with it. The house is the responsibility of her ex now though (she was living with her parents and just moved in a few houses away from us with her son, renting). Surprisingly, the ex-husband is trying to sell the house for $160K!
And people who go through walkthroughs all end up sick…. and don’t buy the house. If it’s as bad as you say, I wouldn’t pay $1 for it.
pegasi1978 wrote:Thanks for the tip! 🙂
Definitely follow Snaps advice, Peg. Mold is a big issue down here.
Snapdragon wrote:I can sue the previous owners if I can prove they knew about it, or if I prove that their renovation work caused this, the latter is actually the most probable scenario.
There is a remediation engineer coming over on Tuesday morning to start ripping holes in the bathroom to find where it is, and what it will take to get rid of it.
I hope you can prove it. That condo cost a fortune as it is. 👿
In a way, it’s not 100% bad, as I finally know what’s caused my headaches at home for the last 10 years. Since Edmonton is such a tree-dense community (even more so where I am now), the Cladosporium is so high, and I have allergies to it.
I mean, I grew up on a dairy farm where stachy is EVERYWHERE, the hay, the straw, the grass. It’s not so much that. It’s just in a confined space with it.
I’ll see my Doctor next Friday and now that I have the identifying molds, hopefully I can get an antihistimine that will help me out. There’s nothing you can do about the other 4, they are always present. Run air filters to keep the concentration down and drug up.. .but the stachy has to go.
At this point, I’m guessing where it is and what it will take to fix, it’s the remediator that will be the big $$$, to come in, remove it, and HEPA vacuum the place. The rest, like rebuilding walls, doing wallboard, ceiling, etc. I can handle myself.
It just takes time… and time is not a huge quantity I have obviously.
What can do you other than deal with it? It’s just money right. I just spend more time here at work getting things done until it’s fixed. I accepted a long time ago that life sucks and everything you do to make it better comes back to bite you 😉
Snapdragon wrote:The rest, like rebuilding walls, doing wallboard, ceiling, etc. I can handle myself.
It just takes time… and time is not a huge quantity I have obviously.
If you don’t mind Khym helping a little maybe we could lend a hand sometime!! Mom(When she get’s back in November) and I(Mom especially) have a fair bit of practice with all of that. She can even install some types of hardwood floors all on her own. 😯 She’s reno’d our (former) house in Labrador often enough on her own, including Windows and bathrooms.
Lupin wrote:Snapdragon wrote:The rest, like rebuilding walls, doing wallboard, ceiling, etc. I can handle myself.
It just takes time… and time is not a huge quantity I have obviously.
If you don’t mind Khym helping a little maybe we could lend a hand sometime!! Mom(When she get’s back in November) and I(Mom especially) have a fair bit of practice with all of that. She can even install some types of hardwood floors all on her own. 😯 She’s reno’d our (former) house in Labrador often enough on her own, including Windows and bathrooms.
I also volunteer to help, and maybe once school starts (and he has weekends free) my fiancee will help too. It depends on the work loads we have though. I’d be more helpful, though, when you get to the painting/wallpapering/whichever area.
I’ll know more on Tuesday after the engineer has a look through. I’m hoping it will stop at the false ceiling, and end up being the condo association’s responsibility.
Although, if I had to pay for it, it would actually get done this year.
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