Is Your Landlord
Unconcerned & Uncaring about
Your Apartment, Rental House, or Condominium
Mold Infestation Problems?
Know your rights to live in a habitable rental unit
-- and don't give them up. Landlords are required to offer their tenants livable premises
including adequate weatherproofing; heat, water and electricity; and clean, sanitary and
structurally safe premises. If your rental unit is not kept in good repair, you have a number
of options ranging from withholding a portion of the rent to pay for repairs to calling the
building inspector (who can usually order the landlord to make repairs) to moving out without
liability for your future rent. [courtesy of Nolo Press]
Living in a mold-infested rental unit is certainly not equivalent to living in a
habitable rental unit. Landlords have a legal obligation to
tenants to provide an environmentally-safe, habitable living space [residential] or work place
[office/commercial rentals]. Read about the recent $4 million dollar judgment
against a mold landlord.
You should be the one to test first! Because most
landlords refuse to pay for mold inspections, mold testing, and mold remediation, the burden
of proof is first upon you to document that you are living in mold contamination. Use our
low-cost do it yourself mold test kits [with or without laboratory mold analysis] to mold test
the air of each room of your apartment, attic, basement, crawl space, and the outward air flow
from each heating/cooling duct register for the possible presence of elevated levels of
airborne mold spores, in comparison to an outdoor mold control test which you will also do.
For more information on mold test kits, please visit:
Do it yourself Black Mold Test Kit. With mold
test results in your hand [visual and/or mold laboratory analysis], you can make strong
complaints to the property owner, manager, local building inspector, and local health
department.
Landlords [with mold-infested rental properties] may have potential and
substantial legal liability to tenants for such items as: mold damage to
tenants' health, medical bills for medical mold diagnostic and treatment
procedures, loss of earnings because of mold problems, mold damage to
tenants' clothing and personal possessions, moving expenses, higher rent
differential if the tenants need to move to a mold-safe place, and for any
tenant-paid expenses for mold inspection, testing, and remediation of the
rental unit. Landlords and tens should
both seek out the advice of an attorney who specializes in landlord-tenant law or in environmental
law. Learn all about mold legal liability issues by reading
Mold Legal Guide. You also may consider using
the Tenant Notices to Landlord about Mold, about which you can read below.
Get both the landlord
attention and action that you and your family deserve by using the 3
step[3 separate notices if necessary] after you have documented the mold infestation in your apartment, or rental
unit withdo
it yourself mold test kits available at a large hardware, home
improvement, or safety,
or by hiring a
Certified
Mold Inspector.
Tenant Legal Notices to Landlords
about Mold
These three different standard form,
copyrighted mold legal notices are ready-to-use. Often, you will only need to complete and
mail [certified mail with return receipt requested] the
first notice:
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Tenant Legal Notice to Landlord: Mold Problems. You simply fill-in your personal
information [such as your name, rental property and unit address, your contact details,
landlord name and address, and date]. You then attach as a Notice
exhibit one of these 3 possible proofs of mold:
(1.a.) your notes from
self-observation of mold growth in the mold test kits during the 7 days after the
date of testing;
(1.b.) better yet, the written and signed report from the Mold
Laboratory analysis and
mold identification of mold samples
collected by you using our mold test kits and/or the
Scotch tape lift tape
mold sampling technique; or
(1.c.) the best of all, from your
Certified
Mold Inspector, a written report as to his or her physical inspection
of your
rental unit, along with the written and signed report from the Mold Laboratory, analysis and mold identification
of mold samples collected by your inspector.
If your landlord fails to comply with the very specific requests in your first legal notice
[such as moving you temporarily at the landlord's expense to a mold-safe rental unit; paying
for mold decontamination of your clothing and personal property; paying for effective, safe,
and professional mold inspection, testing, and remediation; paying for mold medical testing
and treatment of you and your family members; and paying for lost wages and salaries resulting
from your mold sickness], you can then decide to send your choice of
these second and
third
legal notices [or send the third one after you have already mailed the second one, as may be
necessary]:
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Tenant Legal Notice To Landlord: Because of Your Failure To Do Mold
Inspection, Testing, & Remediation, I [We] Are Withholding My
[Our] Rent
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Tenant Legal Notice To Landlord: Because of Your Failure To Do Mold
Inspection, Testing, & Remediation, I [We] Are Vacating
All three legal notices are very strong in impact when mailed via certified mail to your
landlord.
If you so desire, you can re-type the notices in your computer word processing program in any
way you require, add or subtract words and provisions, and have your own attorney customize
the notices to fit any particular circumstances or special needs you have that are not covered
to your satisfaction in these standard forms. All three notices contain unique clauses that
will encourage your landlord to cooperate with you, rather than to resist fixing mold
infestation problems.
The price for one set of all three forms is only $15.00.
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PLEASE NOTE: The set of
Tenant Legal Notices to Landlord is sold only on a
nonrefundable basis because a few
customers might photocopy the notices, and
then return to us the purchased originals, and ask for an unjustified refund.
When ordering, please specify in your order, or by a separate email to
moldconsultant@yahoo.com
your desired email address for delivery by email attachment.
Courtesy of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Mold growth in a Ft. Worth, Texas, apartment. |
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Read
Mold Legal Guide
as an in depth introduction to both
sides of the key
mold legal issues and of the essential claims and defenses
in mold lawsuits.
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