When did Real Estate professionals first become aware of Mold??

[Guest guest]

How far back is it possible to document common knowledge -- through

articles and/or books -- of the mold problem? Specifically, how far

back do you have to go before you can credibly make the came that a

professional, building-management company could not reasonably have

known or believed that the air from the spaces between the walls of a

large building should not be allowed to enter aparatments?

[Guest guest]

The earliest that I found a real estate professioal that was using her

sensitivity to avoid SBS houses was in '96. I met a Feng Shui

practitioner who was being used by real estate friends to use her

sensitivity to assess houses in '98 and she told me " I had to stop

because momentary exposure to some of these places would leave me

violently ill for several days. "

She blamed Formaldehyde but as we toured a house full of the same kind

of panelling, she didn't respond until we got to an area that gave me

a " mold hit " . She then said that she could feel a response.

I asked why she didn't feel a response from all the other panelling

that presumably was all made the same way at the same time and she

said " I don't know why different panels offgas so differently. " And

when I sid that is was peculiar that she only complained about a

Formaldehyde in one area where the wood had been water damaged and

where I perceived a response that I find consistent with what mold

does to me, she said

" Mold reactivity is impossible. I asked my doctor. So I know it must

be Formaldehyde. "

Of course. How dumb of me. Process of elimination.

Though she might have been better off to eliminate her doctor.

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[Guest guest]

Exaggerated claims, lack of common sense, and attempts to game the

insurance system (by means of frauds of various sorts) have probably

done some real damage to those who have actually sustained medically

irrefutable, well-documented injury. Popular hysterias very easily

and readily develop around legitimate causes. Charlatans are a dime

a dozen.

> The earliest that I found a real estate professioal that was using

her

> sensitivity to avoid SBS houses was in '96. I met a Feng Shui

> practitioner who was being used by real estate friends to use her

> sensitivity to assess houses in '98 and she told me " I had to stop

> because momentary exposure to some of these places would leave me

> violently ill for several days. "

> She blamed Formaldehyde but as we toured a house full of the same

kind

> of panelling, she didn't respond until we got to an area that gave

me

> a " mold hit " . She then said that she could feel a response.

> I asked why she didn't feel a response from all the other panelling

> that presumably was all made the same way at the same time and she

> said " I don't know why different panels offgas so differently. "

And

> when I sid that is was peculiar that she only complained about a

> Formaldehyde in one area where the wood had been water damaged and

> where I perceived a response that I find consistent with what mold

> does to me, she said

> " Mold reactivity is impossible. I asked my doctor. So I know it must

> be Formaldehyde. "

>

> Of course. How dumb of me. Process of elimination.

> Though she might have been better off to eliminate her doctor.

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[Guest guest]

Pretty easy to tell the charlatans from the real cases though.

Charlatans are the ones with the money sleeping in a house.

The real cases are broke and sleeping in their cars.

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