Moldy vacant apartment makes other tenants sick
4:06 p.m. Monday, August 11, 2008
"Was laying in bed and watching TV and then all of a sudden boom," says Ashley Holmes. She later learned that sound she heard was someone kicking the door into a vacant apartment in the Country Club Apartments. She and the other tenants called police. No one was there, but what they found was much more frightening to them. They took photos of what they found.
There was mold on the doors and throughout the apartment. The sink and the floor had deteriorated beyond repair. Now people in the building say they're getting sick.
"My kids have been sick and I've seen the girl downstairs has two little babies that were sick," says Holmes.
Brandi Goslin took these photos and says the mold can be found throughout the apartment complex.
She says, "I just walked in and it hit me in my chest. Everybody's walking around with towels and washrags because they were feel sick."
We waited for management to show up, but no one ever did. One maintenance worker told us the manager quit on Friday. He says he didn't know about the problem and referred us back to the Cohen-Esrey corporate office, who we called several times.
They would not return our calls but told the maintenance worker to ask us to leave. Neighbors did call, and a code inspector showed up to look at the apartment. We do know mold is not a violation, but neighbors want to know if there are other issues that are violations.
Even after repeated phone calls, we still have not heard back from the management company to see what will happen with the apartment. We'll let you know what we find out. We'll also let you know if there are any code violations found in that apartment.
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Aug. 12, 2008 at 9:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)shamelshipman (anonymous)
Apartment management and tenants may want to check out the remarkable research on toxic mold removal done by environmental expert Dr Ed Close. Simply diffusing a therapeutic-grade essential oil regularly will likely result in an environment very hostile to mold. http://www.secretofthieves.com/mold.cfm/...
It seems like this would make traditional remediation projects easier, more effective and affordable, as well as creating a healthier environment in which to work and live.
In one instance, 10,667 stachybotrys mold spores were identified in a per cubic meter area. After diffusing Thieves essential oil for forty-eight hours, Dr Close retested. Only thirteen stachybotrys remained. Similarly, 75,000 stachybotrys mold spores were identified in a sample of sheetrock. After seventy-two hours of diffusing, no stachybotrys mold spores remained. (Stachybotrys has a reputation for being the most toxic mold.)
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