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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. If you are renting a mold-infested rental unit, 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 do it yourself mould test kits or hiring our Certified Mould Inspector.

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:

1. 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 mould laboratory analysis and mould identification of mould samples collected by you using our mould test kits; 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 mould laboratory 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]:

2. Tenant Legal Notice To Landlord: Because of Your Failure To Do Mould Inspection, Testing, & Remediation, I [We] Are Withholding My [Our] Rent

3. Tenant Legal Notice To Landlord: Because of Your Failure To Do Mould Inspection, Testing, & Remediation, I [We] 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.

Other Web pages on Legal Liability: 
[ Texas Mould Licensing Law ][Mould Legal Law Q & A][California Mould Disclosure Law] [Insurance Claims For Mold Damage] [Texas Victory] [Landlord Legal Liability for Mould Infestation][Employer Liability Questions & Answers][ Realtor Disclosure] [School Mould Problems ][ How Real Estate  Sellers Can Protect Themselves Against Buyer Mould Claims ]
                       

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