Does Smell indicate Mold or just VOC's?

[Guest guest]

To all you experts out there:

I moved into this new temporary apartment a month ago and notice it

*does* smell musty even though weather has permitted opening windows

almost every day and at night I have an Austin Hepa Plus running and

it has hardwood floors and place is otherwise clean, inside my unit

anyway. I ALSO have not been feeling well since I got here, not

real sick but loss of appetite, and other things where I was doing

very well at the extended stay hotel I was staying at for two and

half months. I moved here due to good test results from mold plates

that caught no viable mold spores...only place I got *no mold*.

However something else did grow in dish, I don't know what it was,

bacteria, yeast...not sure but not round things like mold and took

very long and not alot. SO could place be full of <<TOXINS>> even

though not much mold in air? I know this has been discussed. It is

very old building so even low amounts of mold over long periods of

time I guess toxins could build up, right?

The only thing I see is that hardwood floor is not in good

condition. The boards are spaced far apart, like with age they have

moved or shrunken so it really isn't the nice smooth non- poroused

surface that I can keep real clean that I had imagined. When I

sweep it, what I am sweeping can just fall between the boards.

Could musty smell becoming from hardwood floor since it is so old?

Looks like there is a lot of 'krud' in between floor gaps. I had my

cat here one day and he spent alot of time sniffing floor so he must

have found it odorous...so wondering if musty odor is coming from

floor.

Finding a good place is soooooooooo hard!!!! I was crying first few

days I was here, so discouraged. (It is also extremely noisey at

all hours. I so used to my completely quiet single family home on

dead end street.) I think what happened is when I looked at

apartment people were still in here and were cooking so probably

couldn't smell the musty odor for that reason.

So am I in good shape due to no mold caught in mold plate or is fact

place smells mean that I didn't find a clean place????