Help! Is there any way in California to stop landlord from IGNORING SANE PRECAUTIONS during mold 'cleanup'?

[Guest guest]

Okay, I am going public with my location. I'm in the Bay Area of California.

And I have been complaining to my landlord about mold for sveral years, with

no action. Now, I have a complaint in with my local Dept. of Building

Inspection and my landlord is hopping mad. Also, my building is now flooded,

due to a rain yesterday. Nonetheless, they are proceeding with the 'cleanup'

which so far is basically being done by teenagers with piercings. They are

taking all the moldy drywall and putting it in a pile. NO CONTAINMENT

WHATSOEVER. Next week, they plan to start the same thing, in my apartment.

Despite my test results, etc. (from the most respected lab in Calif.)

They have still not acknowledged that we have mold(!) (we do, " abundant "

stachy, " abundant " asp/pen, and several toxicogenic others..) I have been

getting very sick with it, and am going to the doctor. I live in rent

control and cant afford to move. They are clearly trying to drive me out

with toxic terrorism.

WHAT CAN I DO? THEY WILL CONTAMINATE EVERYTHING I KNOW and quite possibly

make me much sicker than I am. IS THERE ANY LAW THAT FORCES THEM TO USE

CONTAINMENT AND TAKE PRECAUTIONS? I am freaking out. I can show you phots if

you want. You wouldn't believe it.

Also, when that BLACK water in the basement DRIES, what will happen? What

will be in it? The last few days have been better BECAUSE IT WAS RAINING..

But I couldnt imagine a way to make more mold spread faster than what they

are doing...

HELP..

[Guest guest]

You need to call your local Health Dept. and get someone out there ASAP!!!!!

Take pictures if you can. Those poor kids doing the cleanup are going to

suffer.

Marcie

LiveSimply <quackadillian@...> wrote:

Okay, I am going public with my location. I'm in the Bay Area of California.

And I have been complaining to my landlord about mold for sveral years, with

no action. Now, I have a complaint in with my local Dept. of Building

Inspection and my landlord is hopping mad. Also, my building is now flooded,

due to a rain yesterday. Nonetheless, they are proceeding with the 'cleanup'

which so far is basically being done by teenagers with piercings. They are

taking all the moldy drywall and putting it in a pile. NO CONTAINMENT

WHATSOEVER. Next week, they plan to start the same thing, in my apartment.

Despite my test results, etc. (from the most respected lab in Calif.)

They have still not acknowledged that we have mold(!) (we do, " abundant "

stachy, " abundant " asp/pen, and several toxicogenic others..) I have been

getting very sick with it, and am going to the doctor. I live in rent

control and cant afford to move. They are clearly trying to drive me out

with toxic terrorism.

WHAT CAN I DO? THEY WILL CONTAMINATE EVERYTHING I KNOW and quite possibly

make me much sicker than I am. IS THERE ANY LAW THAT FORCES THEM TO USE

CONTAINMENT AND TAKE PRECAUTIONS? I am freaking out. I can show you phots if

you want. You wouldn't believe it.

Also, when that BLACK water in the basement DRIES, what will happen? What

will be in it? The last few days have been better BECAUSE IT WAS RAINING..

But I couldnt imagine a way to make more mold spread faster than what they

are doing...

HELP..

[Guest guest]

I did but they say that all they can do is tell landlord to 'get rid of the

mold'

THEY HAVE NO RULES AS TO *HOW* IT IS DONE!

In other words, they seem to be free to do anything they want, which in the

case of our landlord is always 'the cheapest possible'.

They have ZERO consciousness about safety. In fact, it seems as if they WANT

us to suffer.. I told the people doing the cleanup about the need to be

careful and they laughted at me.. like I was a nut.. They barely spoke

English (my landlord always uses workers who clearly dont understand the

dangers of this environment..they need the $10/hour. thinking ahead about

things like cancer is a luxury for them.)

Seriously, I live under rent control and the 'going rate' for my apartment

is around $600 more than I am paying a month. They like 'churning' the

tenants.. old tenants moving out and new tenants moving in every two or

three years, because it lets them raise the rents.. They hate longterm

tenants like me who are cheating them out of what they see to be rightfully

theirs.. $2000/month for a two bedroom apartment in a TERRIBLY maintained

building (in a fairly nice neighborhood..fortunately, our building is the

trashiest looking on the block)

Over the last nine years (the time ive lived here) the neighborhood has gone

upscale, but they have not maintained it accordingly.. even though they HAVE

raised rents.. bigtime..

On 12/2/05, Marcie McGovern <marcie1029@...> wrote:

>

> You need to call your local Health Dept. and get someone out there

> ASAP!!!!!

> Take pictures if you can. Those poor kids doing the cleanup are going to

> suffer.

>

> Marcie

>

> LiveSimply <quackadillian@...> wrote:

> Okay, I am going public with my location. I'm in the Bay Area of

> California.

> And I have been complaining to my landlord about mold for sveral years,

> with

> no action. Now, I have a complaint in with my local Dept. of Building

> Inspection and my landlord is hopping mad. Also, my building is now

> flooded,

> due to a rain yesterday. Nonetheless, they are proceeding with the

> 'cleanup'

> which so far is basically being done by teenagers with piercings. They are

> taking all the moldy drywall and putting it in a pile. NO CONTAINMENT

> WHATSOEVER. Next week, they plan to start the same thing, in my apartment.

>

> Despite my test results, etc. (from the most respected lab in Calif.)

>

> They have still not acknowledged that we have mold(!) (we do, " abundant "

> stachy, " abundant " asp/pen, and several toxicogenic others..) I have been

> getting very sick with it, and am going to the doctor. I live in rent

> control and cant afford to move. They are clearly trying to drive me out

> with toxic terrorism.

>

> WHAT CAN I DO? THEY WILL CONTAMINATE EVERYTHING I KNOW and quite possibly

> make me much sicker than I am. IS THERE ANY LAW THAT FORCES THEM TO USE

> CONTAINMENT AND TAKE PRECAUTIONS? I am freaking out. I can show you phots

> if

> you want. You wouldn't believe it.

>

> Also, when that BLACK water in the basement DRIES, what will happen? What

> will be in it? The last few days have been better BECAUSE IT WAS RAINING..

> But I couldnt imagine a way to make more mold spread faster than what they

> are doing...

>

> HELP..

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Save yourself, by any means, forget everything else, money,

lawsuits,no amount of doctoring will save you, or inable you to

safely live there. Tearing out the drywall could kill or injury you

past your ability to recover, even with hospitilization, get out now

before it is too late, worry about everything else latter.

>

> Okay, I am going public with my location. I'm in the Bay Area of

California.

> And I have been complaining to my landlord about mold for sveral

years, with

> no action. Now, I have a complaint in with my local Dept. of

Building

> Inspection and my landlord is hopping mad. Also, my building is

now flooded,

> due to a rain yesterday. Nonetheless, they are proceeding with

the 'cleanup'

> which so far is basically being done by teenagers with piercings.

They are

> taking all the moldy drywall and putting it in a pile. NO

CONTAINMENT

> WHATSOEVER. Next week, they plan to start the same thing, in my

apartment.

>

> Despite my test results, etc. (from the most respected lab in

Calif.)

>

> They have still not acknowledged that we have mold(!) (we

do, " abundant "

> stachy, " abundant " asp/pen, and several toxicogenic others..) I

have been

> getting very sick with it, and am going to the doctor. I live in

rent

> control and cant afford to move. They are clearly trying to drive

me out

> with toxic terrorism.

>

> WHAT CAN I DO? THEY WILL CONTAMINATE EVERYTHING I KNOW and quite

possibly

> make me much sicker than I am. IS THERE ANY LAW THAT FORCES THEM

TO USE

> CONTAINMENT AND TAKE PRECAUTIONS? I am freaking out. I can show

you phots if

> you want. You wouldn't believe it.

>

> Also, when that BLACK water in the basement DRIES, what will

happen? What

> will be in it? The last few days have been better BECAUSE IT WAS

RAINING..

> But I couldnt imagine a way to make more mold spread faster than

what they

> are doing...

>

> HELP..

>

>

>