Toxic Black Mold - what Phoenix home owners must know
September 12, 2008
The monsoon season has just passed and left record amounts of rain in Phoenix from Mesa, to Peoria to Scottsdale. With so many vacant, bank owned (REO) homes in greater Phoenix, water damage is all too often a result and a problem. If the water damage is not immediately treated mold can grow.
If doesn’t matter if you live in Phoenix, Scottsdale, or anywhere in the world, mold spores are everywhere. They are in the air, on clothes and on your pets. Of course, 99.99% of all mold is completely harmless.
However, there is one type of mold, Black Mold, also called Toxic Black Mold that can cause some significant health hazards and Phoenix area homeowners need to be aware.
Toxic Black Mold is especially dangerous for people who have breathing difficulties, immune system problems, or allergies. Also, infants, children, pregnant women, and the elderly are at much higher risk. It has also recently been discovered that mold is the number one culprit in repeat sinus infections. Toxic Black Mold has been known in a few cases to cause death to infants.
If you are buying a home in greater Phoenix, especially, if that has not been occupied, I highly recommend a mold inspection.
It is very important to know if your home has toxic black mold. Just because you can not see it does not mean it is not there. If you have a clue or a suspicion that Toxic Black Mold may be in your house get a qualified black mold specialist to test. Cost of a black mold inspection can cost between $250-$350.
If you are buying a home make sure you or your Phoenix, Arizona real estate agent asks for a seller disclosure statement which would include water damage and mold disclosure. Again, the seller may not be aware. However, it is critical to ask so if issues arise later they can be addressed per the addendum.
Be wary of homes in which the seller will not provide a seller property disclosure statement (SPDS). If you find a home in which you cannot get a seller property disclosure statement , please spend a small amount of money for a home inspection and if the home has been unoccupied a mold inspection.
The old adage ‘what you don’t know won’t hurt you’ , does not apply.
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I have a persona experience as a realtor in which I had a home in escrow and the inspection did not turn up any indication of black mold. However, after COE, the mold was discovered. Now, the buyer is suing the seller for non-disclosure. It is something Buyers need to be aware
This article is one that can be easily dismissed. You may say to yourself that this could never happen to you. I highly recommend you step back and take the advice offered in this article. It really can save your life.
Homeowners with mold concerns might 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/79544
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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