A couple months later, you guessed it, the mold is back, and getting worse by the day. We alerted the property manager and a few days later, the contractor was out again. This time, he looked in the crawl space under the house and the crawl space above the house. He found next to no insulation in the attic and a pipe that had a huge leak under the house. They plan on painting over the mold in the cabinet(yes, that came back) with a mold killing paint. I read on blackmold.awardspace that that should kill of the mold because the wooden cabinet was painted before the mold grew(as far as we know), so painting over it with a paint that seals of oxygen will kill the green mold.

I’ve gone through our lease and repairs and maintenance(although mold is never mentioned) is covered by the realty company.

That’s just fine, but my current issue is this: The property manager(claims to have 15 years of being a house inspector experience) has instructed us(the tenants) to use a 20% bleach and water mixture to clean the black mold on the ceiling. 1. As the mold was not caused my tenant negligence, it is not our responsibility to clean the mold right? I estimate this would take us at least 3 hours and we don’t have a way to reach the ceiling(chairs aren’t tall enough, don’t own a ladder). I know if we go buy a ladder and take the receipt to the manager, we’ll get reimbursed, but am I also correct in thinking that we are owed compensation for the time if we decided to take it upon ourselves to do the job? I read on http://realestate.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=22462661 about a tenant who was paid minimum wage for doing his dishes because his dishwasher was broken and the landlord didn’t want it fixed. 2. Anyone know this case so I can reference it? 3. Know a tenant union or housing authority near Hampton Roads? 4. Any other advice?

Sorry for the long read and thanks for your time.
CORRECTION: My questions(yes, there’s multiple questions) now lie in the last paragraph.
Spoke with the rental company, they will be having the maid who cleans their properties out to clean the mold off the ceiling. However, they want to use bleach(20% bleach 80% water). The property manager wants the entire ceiling bleached(roughly 1100 sq ft), and also want us to cover our property with plastic so nothing gets bleached. They expected us to provide plastic, cover all our stuff ourselves, and to be vacant from the house(its a single family home) for a whole day. Well, that wasn’t going to work. If they want it cleaned with bleach, they can pay the maid to cover all my stuff with plastic they provide. If it’s not safe do be in the home, I expect a hotel/motel room provided for the duration of the temporary vacancy. The mold wasn’t due to tenant negligence, so it’s their responsibility to clean the property of the mold and all that that entails(protecting my property). I provided them a website(blackmold.awardspace.com) that lists other cleaners to
use against mold.

Like I said, I’m not spending 3 hours of my time doing their job unless they want to pay me. It doesn’t say anything about maid services in my lease, but it does say the house must be safe and habitable(hence they clean the mold and provide a hotel if the home is inhabitable for even a day). I’m sure the mold isn’t dangerous, but it is still nasty to have on a ceiling I’m paying $995 to look at. They haven’t gotten back to me since I gave them the web site. I’ll be calling them tomorrow and will not be doing business with this company again. I’d like to say thanks again for everyone’s time, sorry to vent. None of the answers stand out, so I’ll put it to a vote.

I am not a lawyer. But not an idiot either.

"black mold" would not grow on your ceiling. It requires raw, untreated wood, dampness and COMPLETE darkness.

Normally basic instructions on how to clean a house are not included in a lease. 1% bleach is enough to kill both mold and mildew (you have mildew). You are right, you do not have to clean this if you do not want to, however, unless maid service is part of your lease no one else will clean it either.

And no, the apartment will not reimburse you for a ladder. If you want a ladder you buy a ladder. Who doesn’t have a ladder?

You are not legally entitled to pay for cleaning your own house. I have never heard of a case where you were paid for basic cleaning, even that article you reference does not talk about cleaning, it talks about a dishwasher in the contract. If your contract states that the landlord cleans your apartment then yes, you could enforce that. If has to be in the contract though.

It has it’s own tiny bathroom, which currently has non-opaque glass surrounding, I think i’ll put in a clear glass screen.

I’ve got a bit of money to renovate with, so far tips I’ve gleaned from the internets are:

Light colours, pastel colours, soft colours, cool colours (blues and greens)

Vertical stripes if any

High up features/borders to draw the eye upwards

Mirrors (non fogging, to avoid that ‘closed-in’ feeling

Keep furniture out of walkways

If you can see the floor, the room will look larger

Co-ordinate wall and furniture colours

Well lit: Maybe track lighting aimed up walls, or recessed lighting

Use see-through materials as things behind will seem further off

Glass tabletops

Reflective surfaces

A few large, simple pieces of furniture rather than lots of small cluttered ones

Plain Upholostry

Install lights in cupboards

Use full spectrum light bulbs

I was thinking of making the whole roof a mirror… would that be awful?….

PIC OF THE UNIT:
http://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-tas-battery+point-107906431

Any advice and tips appreciated

You found good ideas. Did you check out HGTV, they have a show called Small Space, Big Style. It shows what other people have done with their space. It also has commentators, that give the tips and why. Good luck.

I thought Liberals were all about living green?

Wow, that is terrible.

Too many people is the answer, most of them are liberals BTW.

Never the less, we have to get the budget balanced. That is doable as long as the Republicans don’t mess things up.

The last week saw Julia Gillard threatening to assess the assets of the elderly for loot to be plundered like a vampire pirate sucking the life blood outta the economy.

What serious value can be created by stealing from the average to give to wealthy crooks?

Her soft on crime approach where crooks who run some NB not all nursing homes means abuse of the elderly is continuing in conjuction with the greens to make Poll Pott look like a rank amateur?

How can a healthy economy use a death tax by stealth to steal from the have nots to give an abundance of junket health department glory tours of overseas and fire sales of health department land assets where the very people sworn to be protected and defended as a parliamentarian is nothing more than an inconvenience of elderly and the mass glorification of more sin, even though she lives in it?

Greed Graft and look how Great I am the true fancy of pretty pretty fashions redocrating the lodge whilst the unemployed outta town a way starve, Australia has unaffordable realestate, is it any wonder with bad leadership that assets get plundered because investment is foreign and spending rampardt amongst poor purchases and mates rates for fire sales?

Its beyond me how we can even trust the Department of Trust and Guardianship when they racked up the average fee annually every month to try to steal the home by stealth after assessing a carer because living in a home despite spending most of the time there means the family home gets included as an asset surely three and a half years as a carer means that the family home doesnt get seized most particularly if the carer lives there one month prior to the person going into aged care?

What disturbs me most is the hostile attitude that the elderly and carers should exist like its so much loot they are entitled to steal and blame the transference for the government politcal machinations onto the survivors on battle street.

In the year 2007 there was a 20% spike in the number of dementia related increases proportionate to the sensitivity of a 20% spike in wrongful diagnosis of aged folks reacting badly to pain killers high as a kite many doctors are liable for sueing for wrongful diagnosis, many victims now lay dead as working families cry for grief, thank you Julia???

How Could Julia Gillard’s economic mismanagment of aged finances cost the NSW Premier Christina Keneally her job when she is cleaning up all the rotting politicians retiring?
Surely Aged care carers deserve a better deal by creating value whether living there or NOT to protect the family home from being seized as an asset? 3 1/2 years as a carer six times saving the caree life, five outta six abussive aged care homes, where is any justice?

My word I had no idea it was that bad. This is an evil idea and the woman must be drunk to think it would work.

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Property Type: Single Family Residence
Subdivision: Quail Creek
MLS Area:Green Valley

School District: Continental
High School: Sahuarita
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