Sharon and Don Corbin's Emmett mold home up for sale

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Emmett mold home up for sale

04/26/2002

Rau

Idaho's NewsChannel 7

Last January we told you about an Emmett couple that is seeing their dream

home destroyed by toxic mold. This Emmett couple has already accepted the

fact that they have lost their home, but now they are worried about

something new: that someone else might try to buy the home, and live there.

This is Sharon and Don Corbin's dream home, but they haven't lived in it

since last August. Now the doors are locked, the lawn is overgrown, and

there's no need to worry about solicitors.

Sharon and Don Corbin: " It looks fine from the outside, but the inside is

collapsed, the floors are falling down, the walls. " There's an invasion

going on inside the Corbin's home. Toxic mold is devouring their dream, and

their savings.

Two-year-old hardwood floors are rotting, and a brown dust of mold spores

blankets everything.

The Corbins: " The house needs to be burned it is toxic, it is collapsing, on

the inside, it's dangerous. " The Corbins know just how dangerous living here

can be.

Both suffer from health problems and Sharon Corbin actually had mold growing

on her skin. If this all sounds like your dream home, now you can own it.

The Corbins: " They are going foreclosing on it, and they are going to try

and sell the house and property. " Just last week, the Corbin's mortgage

company foreclosed on the home, and a notice on the locked window says the

house will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder.

Mold Specialist Doug Ness: " No, that's a totally unhealthy house to live in,

no nobody should live in that house. "

Doug Ness is a mold specialist who says the Corbin's home, is one of the

worst cases of mold he's ever seen. So he can't believe the mortgage

company would try to sell it again, at any price.

Ness: " Should be illegal, it's not the right thing, the Corbins have gone

through some major challenges, and for anybody to try and sell that house,

to another party is totally wrong. "

Sharon Corbin: " I wouldn't buy it again, the mold is poisonous, it will make

you sick, I don't care what they say it will make you sick. "

The Corbin's mortgage company is based out of Utah and Texas, and could not

be reached for comment for this story.

But local realtors we talked to said the mortgage company can sell the house

at auction without doing anything to get rid of the mold problem. Doug Ness

says he's hoping to have the home condemned by a structural engineer to

prevent it from being re-sold.