Need Advice

[boost addict]

The King is pretty accurate in his summation. I would just add: Apartments are the worst about dealing with IAQ or environmental guidelines/regulations. Period. Save your time and money and just get out. Take a surface lift of the material in question and run it over to Crisp or Moody Labs and have a fungal ID and quantification analysis performed if you want to get your deposit back and/or pursue them on the TAA safety and health clause. But your safest bet is just get out.

<---- Texas Licensed Mold Assessment Consultant

[Nash B.]

Get abecx to evict you

[Kart21]

Check the A coils for "junk" growing on them. The current humidity levels have gotten so high that we have found all sorts of growth in them.

just my 2 cents

[Jon/xpm]

Here is a few updates

So they sent me a lease renewal the same day I put in the request. I can act early and save money. However, the lease renewal is the last thing on my mind but i find it kind of humorous that they sent that out with everything going on.

This weekend was fun
They just put a new roof on last month (doing the entire complex). With the rain we got Saturday, I noticed right above the tv was wet drywall. I was able to have my brother come over and get the stuff moved from the living room to more of walk way. Nothing beats not being able to use your living room your paying for. So today i got a notice saying they fixed everything. From my understanding, I do not see anyone in my unit or hear anyone on the roof today. So I am leaving stuff in the awkward spot and give it a real good rain storm to test it out.

So I got a reply back by email from the Apt manager saying they will have someone come out and do a moisture meter reading. This is suppose to also test the air quality. They want to do a good thorough clean in my apartment and clean the carpets.

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Jonathan

[The King]

A moisture meter does not test air quality whatsoever. It's often used during a mold inspection but does not provide any indication of indoor air quality or identify the species of mold present.

[Jon/xpm]

The apt still has not responded in regards to my request for the IAQ testing after sending a few emails.

Someone advised checking out homeadvisor which I found a few companies
Airborne Environmental Consultants
Advanced Energy Solutions
IAQM, LLC
Texas Mold Inspection Services

However, the website was saying the average is around $300 to $550 for this type of service. Is that right? Seems expensive for something out of my pocket but then I would finally know what is going on....

[The King]

I never conducted for-profit mold inspections in private residences myself, but those prices seem reasonable to me for the effort required, which would include air (and possible bulk) sampling, lab analyses, and IAQ report.

The property owner is responsible for this, so if you pay for it out of pocket hopefully you would be reimbursed.