Re: Re: Is it legal in California to poison renters with aspergillus? Apparently so...

[Guest guest]

carondeen <kdeanstudios@...> wrote: Move, you must move, to stay is to

die, if you want to live, you

must move, period, to say you cannot move is to agree to die. To

blame this, your death on someone else, your uncaring landlord, or

the government, is to give up your only power, you have the power to

live or die.

karen

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> Some of you might remeber my story. I live in an apartment building

> and we have stachybotrys and aspergillus/penicillium (and

chaetmonium

> and cladorporidium and alternaria and ullocladium, etc.) We can't

use

> our heater because it is connected to the interior of our building

> which is filled with mold.

>

> Now our landlord is claiming that 'we have a working heater' and

that

> if we don't want to breathe moldy air, thats our problem. 'There

are

> no standards on mold in air'.

>

> The electric power lines in our building are old and can't handle

> electric heaters - and they are expensive. We have had to keep our

> heater sealed up in plastic because when it is not encased in

plastic

> we get sick almost immediately, especially when it is windy.

>

> There is very little 'visible mold' in our apartment, (the only

places

> it grows, since we have fans blowing in all the time to keep the

mold

> inside the walls - brrr.. are around the cracks that lead into the

> walls in our very moldy building, with its flooded basement, and

leaky

> plumbing)

>

>

> WHAT CAN WE DO?

>

FAIR USE NOTICE:

[Guest guest]

Yes, the recommendations given me by some very kind people here have

already been very helpful. Appropriate public agencies have written

them up. But we are running into this lack of standards thing. They

are gung-ho about myopically visible mold, (which we also have) but in

the case of our heat problem, even though they care about

microscopically visible mold, they seem hamstrung by lack of

regulations to cite. And my landlords lawyers seems to be gloating on

this.

Believe it or not, I now actually have (on video tape!) my landlord

telling me that he has provided me with 'a working heater' and that

the mold problem does not make it unusable.

(The air in front of the heater when it was not wrapped in plastic was

tested at >3000 cfu/sq meter asp/pen)

So, at least now they have acknowledged that we have a problem.. BUT

THEY STILL DON'T WANT TO FIX IT!

I *would* move *but its not a real option RIGHT NOW because *I'm not

working*, and I BARELY have the money to keep THIS roof over my head.

Even if this apartment is moldy.. its better than homelessness. We

have air cleaners on and I am taking CSM. But I often feel rotten.

Most of you probably own your own homes.. so maybe you don't realize

that I would not be able to rent without a job. Getting a job depends

on my being able to think. Being able to think depends on THEM FIXING

IT.

My last job paid 70k/yr but it required a lot of commuting and one day

it just gave up the goat.

I don't have a guardian angel who will give me money out of the sky.

Sorry middle class folks, this is America. Every man for himself...

Nothing is free, everything expensive.

On 12/19/05, Loni Rosser <loni326@...> wrote:

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>

> carondeen <kdeanstudios@...> wrote: Move, you must move, to stay is

to die, if you want to live, you

> must move, period, to say you cannot move is to agree to die. To

> blame this, your death on someone else, your uncaring landlord, or

> the government, is to give up your only power, you have the power to

> live or die.

> karen

>

> >

> > Some of you might remeber my story. I live in an apartment building

> > and we have stachybotrys and aspergillus/penicillium (and

> chaetmonium

> > and cladorporidium and alternaria and ullocladium, etc.) We can't

> use

> > our heater because it is connected to the interior of our building

> > which is filled with mold.

> >

> > Now our landlord is claiming that 'we have a working heater' and

> that

> > if we don't want to breathe moldy air, thats our problem. 'There

> are

> > no standards on mold in air'.

> >

> > The electric power lines in our building are old and can't handle

> > electric heaters - and they are expensive. We have had to keep our

> > heater sealed up in plastic because when it is not encased in

> plastic

> > we get sick almost immediately, especially when it is windy.

> >

> > There is very little 'visible mold' in our apartment, (the only

> places

> > it grows, since we have fans blowing in all the time to keep the

> mold

> > inside the walls - brrr.. are around the cracks that lead into the

> > walls in our very moldy building, with its flooded basement, and

> leaky

> > plumbing)

> >

> >

> > WHAT CAN WE DO?

> >

>

>

>

>

>

>

> FAIR USE NOTICE:

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