Re: Need advice and/or experience about suing landlord for illness i

[Guest guest]

If you want to sue your landlord, do it from the safe haven of a NEW apartment,

not the death chamber you are living in. From my own personal experience, here

is why your apartment can never be " remediated " by a landlord. The floods have

created a situation where you are walking on a " layer cake " composed of a layer

of floor covering, on top of a layer of mold, on top of another layer of older

floor covering, on top of another layer of mold, on top of yet another layer of

floor covering. When landlords pay for new floor covering, they usually only pay

to have the new floor covering put down, on top of the already existing floor

covering. This is because it is cheaper than scraping off all the existing

layers of floor covering to be able to place the new floor covering on the bare

surface of the floor.

When your apartment floods, the water seeps not just underneath the floor

covering that you can see, but also under EVERY layer of floor covering on the

floor. This creates the layer cake described above. Very few landlords will do

more than laying down another layer on top of your mold layer cake. If you pay

for a profesional to remove the layer cake, you can be POSITIVE that he will not

sand down and vacuum up the mold under the bottom layer of floor covering [who's

gonna see it?]

If you are stupid enough' as I was, to be present at the removal, to make sure

the job is done right, you can be positive if it was done right, if, by the next

day, you wake up in the hospital hooked up to a ventilator, which is doing the

breathing for your body.

So, its like this: " heads, you lose-tails, you lose " .

My advice- RUN-RUN-RUN-RUN!

And, for heavens sake, don't take any porous, or soft items like your

mattress, with you, to your new apartment, or you will just cross-contaminate

the new apartment, and start the process all over again.

Joe