Re: Re: Our situation, any insights?

[Guest guest]

Iooloo,

You should spend the money to have an IAQ professional in your area, a good

one, evaluate your situation.

Most of us on this list will tell you one or two things, this or that, but

the reality is that very few of us (not me or Barb) are

qualified to tell you things specific to your situation that you can depend

on for your health. Each of us has been on our own journey and many of us

(like me) are still very sick with our own issues and not qualified to say

anything at all except as it has related to our own situations.. Honest

people will qualify what they say with that..

Carl Grimes and Jeff May who both post here occasionally, ARE IAQ pros and

both of them would be qualified to recommend someone good in your area who

will do you well and not steal your money...

Don't risk your health by messing around.. unless you are like many of us

and simply don't have the money to do it. In that case, you need to think of

your children (if you have them) first and move out and then deal with the

consequences from a distance..

[Guest guest]

This http://www.hadd.com/ website has an amazing amount of information on

the MAJOR problems buyers being driven out of renting into buying face in

the current " caveat emptor " ( " buyer beware " ) atmosphere.

One has to wonder, WHERE DO ALL THESE PEOPLE GO AFTER THEY ARE FORCLOSED

UPON? They can't buy, they can't rent. Do they just drop off the map?

I kow we see some of them here, traveling around without any place to stay.

Are any of the Democratic (or Grand Old Party) candidates doing anything

for uprooted people, or their issues?

I guess its hard to register to vote if you are on the road. People should

be able to keep their registration at their last known address until tey get

a new, physical address.

[Guest guest]

I think that in some situations, I might feel safer taking a QPCR sample

(vacumn dust) and sending it in to a lab for analysis *myself*. (I had a

mold inspector try to put me over a barrel once and it left a bad taste in

my mouth.)

Testing methods like that have the advantage of using the dust to get what

in a sense is an average of the mold situation over time.

Something like Aerotech's EMRI or the like.. QPCR..

Many of these so called 'mold inspectors' don't know any more about this

than many of us do, in fact, in most places, there are no real laws that

prevent anyone from calling themselves a 'mold inspector'. (OTOH, there are

many good, professional people i the field, many of whom also don't have

formal degrees.. - YOU HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF or get a good

recommendation)

There are accreditation organizations (like the IAQA which seems far better

than most) but even those organizations have lots of inernal conflicts about

policies of extreme importance to people like us. That makes this difficult.

You know ALL of these mold inspectiion people do much of their work for the

real estate industry and business owners... as well as, but not as much -

for homeowners or renters, get the picture on that?

Those are the repeat customers they may not want to anger, unless they are

really moral people who look at this - and healthy homes and people - as a

calling and not simply as a way of paying their bills..

(I do believe that they can go together - but I am sometimes a bit too

trusting too)

*sigh*

On 7/16/07, barb1283 <barb1283@...> wrote:

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> I've heard the exact opposite advice, to use an independent inspector

> because inspectors that deal with real estate companies want to help

> the realtor sell the house, which is conflict of interest. How do you

> keep your dogs healthy?

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> > mean

> > real estate transactions. You will fare much better if they have

> > dealt with Realtors before.

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> > B.

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