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Landlord Legal Liability for Mould
Infestation
Is Your Landlord Unconcerned & Uncaring about Your
Apartment or Rental House or Condominium Mould Problems?
Landlords [with mould-infested rental properties] may have potential and
substantial legal liability to tenants for such items as mould damage to
tenants' health, medical bills for medical mould testing and treatment,
loss of earnings because of mould problems, mould damage to tenants'
clothing and personal effects, moving expenses, higher rent if tenants
need to move to a mould-safe place, and for the costs of mould inspection,
testing, and remediation of the rental units. You should seek out the
advice of an attorney who specializes in landlord-tenant law or in
environmental law. You also may consider using the Tenant Notices
to Landlord about Mould, about which you can read on the rest of
this page below.
Get both the landlord attention and action
that you and your family deserve by using the 3 step
[3 separate notices
if necessary] after you have documented the mould infestation in your
apartment, or rental house or condominium by using Mold Inspector Laboratory's do it yourself
mould test kits or hiring mould inspection professional
service.
Tenant
Legal Notices to Landlords about Mould
These three different standard
form, copyrighted mould legal notices are ready-to-use. Often, you will
only need to complete and mail [certified mail with return receipt
requested] the first notice: Tenant
Legal Notice to Landlord: Mould Problems. You simply fill-in
your personal information [such as your name, rental property and unit
address, your contact details, landlord name and address, and date].
You then attach as a Notice exhibit one of
these 3 possible proofs of mould: (1) your notes from
self-observation of mould growth in the mould test kits during the 7 days after
the date of testing; (2) better yet, the written and signed
report from the
analysis and mould identification of mould samples collected by you
using
mould test kits and/or the
Lift Tape Sampling Method;
or (3) the best of all,
from your
Certified Mould
Inspector, a written
report as to his or her physical inspection of your rental unit, along
with the written and signed report from the analysis and mould identification of
mould samples collected by your inspector.
If your landlord fails to comply with the very specific requests in your
first legal notice [such as moving you temporarily at the landlord's
expense to a mould-safe rental unit; paying for mould decontamination of
your clothing and personal property; paying for effective, safe, and
professional mould inspection, testing, and remediation; paying for mould
medical testing and treatment of you and your family members; and paying
for lost wages and salaries resulting from your mould sickness], you can
then decide to send your choice of these second and third legal notices
[or send the third one after you have already mailed the second one, as
may be necessary]:
Tenant Legal Notice To Landlord: Because of
Your Failure To Do Mould
Inspection, Testing, & Remediation, I [We]
Am [Are] Withholding My [Our] Rent
Tenant Legal Notice To Landlord: Because of
Your Failure To Do Mould
Inspection, Testing, & Remediation,
I [We] Am [Are] Vacating
All three legal notices are very strong in impact when mailed via
certified mail to your landlord.
If you so desire, you can re-type the notices in your computer word
processing program in any way you require, add or subtract words and
provisions, and have your own attorney customize the notices to fit any
particular circumstances or special needs you have that are not covered
to your satisfaction in these standard forms. All three notices
contain unique clauses that will encourage your landlord to cooperate
with you, rather than to resist fixing mould infestation problems.
The price for one set of all three forms is
only
US$ 15.00.
To order, select your choice of payment method at the bottom of this
page---
PLEASE NOTE:
The set of Tenant Legal Notices to Landlord is sold only on a
nonrefundable
basis because a few customers might photocopy the notices, and
then return to us the purchased originals, and ask for an unjustified
refund.
When ordering, please specify in your order, or by a separate email to
moldinspector@yahoo.com your desired email address
for the delivery of your legal forms.
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