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Anyone buy a home with mold issues?
We looked at a house yesterday that the bank wants financed with a 203K loan. Everything looked pretty good until we saw some mildew or mold in the basement garage. DH thinks it may have been caused by a water leak in the master bath above. Of course, we don't know the extent of the damage. And we couldn't see much because there weren't any lights on--we had a small flashlight.
Anyone successfully rehab a mold house? It gives me the heebie jeebies, especially with two little boys. But it would be such a great house when finished. Should we even consider this?
Re: Anyone buy a home with mold issues?
I did not personally buy a home with mold issues, but someone I know did. Eventually they had to leave the house. They found out that it was in the walls and they found this out after one of the walls in the bathroom fell due to the damage over a year after purchasing the home.
That is one issue I would steer clear from.
I would consider it but have a specialist come out. We had what I thought was mold in our bathroom wall. A drywall guy came and when he tore out the wall it was only on the inside of the drywall and we paid $500 to have everything torn out, cleaned and replaced with new drywall. He said it was mildew which is better than mold, and it's all good now.
Oh and I called a company to come test and they said there was no mold.. they used some meter reader thing.
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I personally did not buy a home with a mold issue, and would not purchase a home if I knew it had one. Mold is a really pesky beast, hard to get rid of and can be lethal if it is of a certain variety. We have a mold issue in one of our storage facilities at work (I'm in the library field) and my colleagues have been doing some research into how to get rid of it and its possible effects on those of working around it, it is no joke. Also, if you have mold in once place you have mold everywhere in the house. Those spores really travel.
Some people are not freaked out by mold, but I personally would steer clear, especially with kids. If you love the house I would recommend having a professional come check it out so you can be sure. It might be nothing or it might be a huge problem. Good luck.
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Nearly every home has mold of some kind, and not all mold is the scary toxic stuff.
Get a home inspector. Mold needs water or moisture to grow, and that would indicate an issue with the home. If the mold is actively growing, then you have a bigger problem on your hands. If the mold is dry and there's no moisture, then it just means there was a problem that was corrected and clean up is pretty easy.
The house we purchased did have two places where mold was present. The first place was in the utility closet where the hvac and water heater are located. The second was in an attic space over the garage. In both cases, the mold was dry and not growing. The mold in the utility closet was a result of a burst water heater. It grew on the drywall. We asked the sellers to replace that portion of drywall along with the baseboards. Cutting the drywall out allowed us to make sure there wasn't mold growing behind the drywall.
The stuff in the attic was a small spot and not actively growing. It was the result of a roof leak, but didn't present a hazard. We left it alone.
Around the same time we were buying a house, we were dealing with extensive mold issues in the apartment we were renting. It would appear on walls in the pantry and laundry room, and it kept coming back. That stuff was no good.
I know someone who bougtht house with mold. They got it for a great price so they had extra money to take care of the mold. They had to take down all the walls on the first floor and call in a mold company to clean it.
I think it came out to $2500 plus new walls.
Good Luck