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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 417837" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Thanks. I thought so. </p><p></p><p>I have a sneaky suspicion owner knew about the mold prior to the contract........and this made her home sellable. We had an old guy who had inherited an old family home in the neighborhood. He really didn't want the house, but when he went to sell it inspectors found black mold. So, he decided to rent.........well, he's too nice a guy to be a decent landlord so after evicting endless difficult children.........he decided to go rent to own or cfd. To disguise the mold issue he'd wash down the walls in the dining area and put about 5 coats of new paint on it. Each person who took it on was about 6 mo to a yr into the place before the mold began to show up under the new layers of paint. He'd tell them that since they were buying. they'd have to bear the cost of clean up or live with it. I think he went through several people that way......no skin off his nose, he had months worth of free money (as I said the house had been in the family forever) as he didn't have a house payment to make. Win/win for him. </p><p></p><p>Finally he needed to dump the house for financial reasons. But he'd spend a lot to clean up the mold only to have it come back like before. Now we lived close enough to realize that for years he'd had bats living in the chimney of that house. You'd see them fly out at dust and back at dawn. We'd told him this over and over but he wouldn't believe us. Finally he decides when nothing else worked to get the chimney inspected and cleaned..............there was so much bat guano in there the guys doing the job were stunned, never seen anything like it. That was the source of the mold. yuk</p><p></p><p>After clean up he had an inspector come out before putting it on the market. Inspector turned him into the city......not long after the house was condemned. Seemed while he was concentrating upstairs he'd never bothered to look in the basement.........ewwwwww. Nasty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 417837, member: 84"] Thanks. I thought so. I have a sneaky suspicion owner knew about the mold prior to the contract........and this made her home sellable. We had an old guy who had inherited an old family home in the neighborhood. He really didn't want the house, but when he went to sell it inspectors found black mold. So, he decided to rent.........well, he's too nice a guy to be a decent landlord so after evicting endless difficult children.........he decided to go rent to own or cfd. To disguise the mold issue he'd wash down the walls in the dining area and put about 5 coats of new paint on it. Each person who took it on was about 6 mo to a yr into the place before the mold began to show up under the new layers of paint. He'd tell them that since they were buying. they'd have to bear the cost of clean up or live with it. I think he went through several people that way......no skin off his nose, he had months worth of free money (as I said the house had been in the family forever) as he didn't have a house payment to make. Win/win for him. Finally he needed to dump the house for financial reasons. But he'd spend a lot to clean up the mold only to have it come back like before. Now we lived close enough to realize that for years he'd had bats living in the chimney of that house. You'd see them fly out at dust and back at dawn. We'd told him this over and over but he wouldn't believe us. Finally he decides when nothing else worked to get the chimney inspected and cleaned..............there was so much bat guano in there the guys doing the job were stunned, never seen anything like it. That was the source of the mold. yuk After clean up he had an inspector come out before putting it on the market. Inspector turned him into the city......not long after the house was condemned. Seemed while he was concentrating upstairs he'd never bothered to look in the basement.........ewwwwww. Nasty. [/QUOTE]
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