Is it legal in California to poison renters with aspergillus? Apparently so...

[Guest guest]

Some of you might remeber my story. I live in an apartment building

and we have stachybotrys and aspergillus/penicillium (and chaetmonium

and cladorporidium and alternaria and ullocladium, etc.) We can't use

our heater because it is connected to the interior of our building

which is filled with mold.

Now our landlord is claiming that 'we have a working heater' and that

if we don't want to breathe moldy air, thats our problem. 'There are

no standards on mold in air'.

The electric power lines in our building are old and can't handle

electric heaters - and they are expensive. We have had to keep our

heater sealed up in plastic because when it is not encased in plastic

we get sick almost immediately, especially when it is windy.

There is very little 'visible mold' in our apartment, (the only places

it grows, since we have fans blowing in all the time to keep the mold

inside the walls - brrr.. are around the cracks that lead into the

walls in our very moldy building, with its flooded basement, and leaky

plumbing)

WHAT CAN WE DO?

[Guest guest]

Move, you must move, to stay is to die, if you want to live, you

must move, period, to say you cannot move is to agree to die. To

blame this, your death on someone else, your uncaring landlord, or

the government, is to give up your only power, you have the power to

live or die.

karen

>

> Some of you might remeber my story. I live in an apartment building

> and we have stachybotrys and aspergillus/penicillium (and

chaetmonium

> and cladorporidium and alternaria and ullocladium, etc.) We can't

use

> our heater because it is connected to the interior of our building

> which is filled with mold.

>

> Now our landlord is claiming that 'we have a working heater' and

that

> if we don't want to breathe moldy air, thats our problem. 'There

are

> no standards on mold in air'.

>

> The electric power lines in our building are old and can't handle

> electric heaters - and they are expensive. We have had to keep our

> heater sealed up in plastic because when it is not encased in

plastic

> we get sick almost immediately, especially when it is windy.

>

> There is very little 'visible mold' in our apartment, (the only

places

> it grows, since we have fans blowing in all the time to keep the

mold

> inside the walls - brrr.. are around the cracks that lead into the

> walls in our very moldy building, with its flooded basement, and

leaky

> plumbing)

>

>

> WHAT CAN WE DO?

>