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Subject: Mold or not, apartment will end lease

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Mold or not, apartment will end lease

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Greg Dawson

The Last Resort

October 22, 2006

Dear Greg: I live at Glen apartments near UCF and have been experiencing

a problem with mold in my unit. My roommate and I reported it in hopes that

management would find and fix the problem. To our surprise, a worker came and

just painted over it. It's gotten to the point that my roommate is being

physically affected by the mold. She confronted the property manager who sent a

mold-removal person who claimed there was no mold. We have pictures showing the

mold before it was painted over. We asked to be let out of our lease, but the

manager said we would have to send pictures and a formal letter to corporate

headquarters.

ASHLEY SETTLES

ORLANDO

Dear : You can the save the pictures for your photo album. Though tests

for mold were negative, said a spokesman for the complex, your lease will be

terminated without penalty. I guess that, uh, Settles the matter.

Dear Greg: In August 2005, I contacted builder Starkey to add a carport

and patio to my manufactured home. I made a down payment of $500 and a total of

$4,228. He sent Bob Mays to do the job. In dry weather all went well, but in the

rainy season numerous leaks showed up in the patio. Mays showed up and did a lot

of caulking. When there's no rain at all it is OK, but from July of this year to

the present there have been leaks! I called Mays and he swore at me and hung up.

After numerous calls to Starkey, who never bothered to return my calls, I'm

writing to you, Dr. Phil! I'm 87 years young.

JOHN MANELLA

KISSIMMEE

Dear : Unless you've got a dating problem, I think you got the wrong guy. I

do roofs -- Dr. Phil does relationships. Anyway, I checked with Starkey,

who said your complaint is the first he's had in 35 years. Amazing! He also said

there's no way the addition could have caused the leaks, that he's never heard

of Bob Mays, and hasn't heard from you in a year. Your dots and his not only

don't connect, they're not on same page. Starkey is not happy about it, but he

promised to come around in the next week and take a look at your problem. Let me

know how that's workin' for ya.

Dear Greg: In February we paid Exotix Cycle & Motor Werx in Oviedo $31,500 to

order parts for a complete motorcycle from Total Performance Engineering in

Connecticut. We have yet to receive the most expensive and necessary parts,

including the motor. The owners of the shop, Kim and Jack Barontini, have made

every excuse possible. They said it takes seven months to receive the motor from

Total Performance. However, TP representatives told us the Barontinis had not

even ordered the parts, even though we have paid them in full! My husband heard

a rumor that Jack had sold the business and stayed on as manager.

CATHERINE WILSON

OVIEDO

Dear : I heard the same thing and have called Exotix three times to

check out that rumor and ask about your AWOL parts. No response. I contacted TP

Engineering simply to verify that it had not received an order from Exotix, and

was met by an aggressively hostile " No comment! " Whoa. I don't know what's going

on with Exotix, but on the surface it doesn't look good at all. Meanwhile, I'm

sending a jar of Folgers decaf up to TP Engineering in Connecticut.

Feel like you're getting the runaround? E-mail Greg at

gdawson@...; or call 407-420-5618; or write Greg Dawson, Orlando

Sentinel, 633 N. Orange Ave., MP-240, Orlando FL 32801. Greg doesn't mean to be

rude, but because of volume he can't respond to most calls, letters and e-mails.

See Greg on The Daily Buzz at 7:20 a.m. Mondays on WKCF-Channel 18.

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