Tenant Information
Tenants and Toxic Mold or other Environmental Problems

Having a mold problem as a tenant in the Bay Area presents unique problems:

If at all possible, please try to work it out directly with your landlord or property manager.

Legal fees can get expensive.  It can cost initially $750+ for our onsite inspection and report, and between $2500 - $5,000+ for our part of preparing your case through your attorney.  There are other options.

You may want to consider sending us a bulk or tape lift sample of the discoloration seen on your belongings or the actual building. We charge $125 to send your sample to our environmental lab. You are then provided with a report that includes these lab results and our limited opinion of your situation.  This may result in your landlord addressing your problems. Or you may be able to obtain a much speedier, less costly resolution to your mold damage in small claims court.  The new limit in San Francisco is $7500.  It is always preferable to amicably resolve this problem with your landlord.  See sample lab results.

Our onsite inspection report primarily benefits the owner of the building.  Mold is caused by water where it doesn't belong; example - under a leaking window, as an example.  So, our reports focus on finding the leaks and how to repair the problems.

If you live in an older building the problem may be interior condensation caused by single paned windows, lack of wall and ceiling insulation, lack of sufficient exhaust fans in the bath and kitchen with multiple people taking showers and cooking.

You may wish to consider moving.

For a dry cleaning company that will remove mold spores from clothing, couches, child's special toy, etc., please call this company:

Wardrobe and Textiles

Certified Restoration Dry Cleaning Network
Geography covered:  will pick up and inventory your damaged fabric property - also smoke damage
Tom McIver
1091 Shary Circle
Concord,  CA 94518
925-872-2344 - please call first
crdngreaterbayarea@sbcglobal.net

If you have hired an attorney, our services will be very useful.  If you haven't hired an attorney, then you may wish to consider the options above. If you do proceed legally, it is far more cost effective to have us work with your attorney, than to guess at the test strategy necessary to support your position. You should begin with an attorney that specializes in tenants rights; especially if you are a tenant in San Francisco.

It is unfortunate that local Health Departments will have very limited impact on resolving environmental problems.

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