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Pachamama

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9. He isn't required to do it and if you don't pay to have it tested and then file a complaint, then
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 01:16 AM
Oct 2019

....there is nothing you can do moving forward.

I don't want to get in a debate about rental law....I own rental property and have been a renter myself.

I had been a renter and the bathroom ceiling came crashing down and there was black mold everywhere. The landlord who owned the property along with 40 other properties in the area didn't care, they just said they would clean it up and repair.

I hired a lab to test a sample I sent them. It was toxic black mold. I then also filed a complaint showing them the results and forced them to bring a professional black mold mitigation company that stripped the entire bathroom area down, removed and repaired properly the area and also treated the apartment and another bathroom next to it where it was. Had I not done this on my own, they wouldn't have done shit.

I had renters insurance that reimbursed me for some damages and the cost of the testing of the mold was covered off of rent deduction.

You can talk about rental law, but unless you have actual proof it is mold, then you have no claim.

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