Posted on 03/16/2024 10:49:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Krista Durant says her family was unknowingly inhaling toxins in her home which resulted in her 8-year-old son being placed on a breathing machine.
“As a mom, seeing your kid in that kind of condition is like a nightmare,” Durant said.
Durant told Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Ashli Lincoln she wrote letters for months to apartment management at the Silver Oak Apartments in Clarkson to do mold remediation after a water leak from a neighboring apartment caused water damage to her unit.
“Not only is it a legal obligation of theirs to provide safe living conditions to their residents, it’s also a moral one,” Durant said.
But Durant says management ignored those morals and her son became sicker.
“His oxygen is like low 90′s. His fever is like 102.6,” she said.
She took him to the hospital and, through a blood test, his medical records show at least four different molds were detected in his bloodstream.
“We was just sitting there, my son was getting sicker, they still didn’t come out to rectify the situation. They offered to get the carpets clean, that’s not going to get rid of mold,” she said.
LAKEN RILEY MURDER: Man accused of killing nursing student on UGA campus asks for jury trial She eventually paid to have her apartment tested for mold and that’s when she discovered what was under their carpet.
Lincoln spoke to management at the property. They did not want to comment and referred Channel 2 Action News to their regional manager.
The company has not responded to a request for comment.
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Durant told Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Ashli Lincoln she wrote letters for months to apartment management at the Silver Oak Apartments in Clarkson to do mold remediation after a water leak from a neighboring apartment caused water damage to her unit.
Tell me something. If they were unknowingly inhaling toxins then how was she writin about it for months?
You can understand that water damage can result in mold without being a mold remediation expert. The smell alone is a tell-tale sign. Requesting remediation after a water event is a legitimate and prudent step.
When I managed a high rise, I had a remediation company on speed dial.
This property manager is an idiot. I hope they have good liability insurance. They are going to need it.
Not our problem.
She wrote a letter that mold remediation needed to be done, but there was no test, so she didn’t know what she was inhaling.
Good catch.
Knowing somehow that she didn’t know yet what she would later know and sue about.
Or something.
What should have been a few thousand dollar job will now cost the owner millions.
Mama should have moved if she suspected anything wrong with the apartment.
Lawyer, lawsuit.
Peanut allergies, mold, silicone breast implants... oh my. Or Munchausen by proxy.
Got that same problem where I live now. My master bedroom is uninhabitable because of mold in the walls after the HVAC leaked water under the wall and into the bedroom. Being knowledgeable about construction, I told them what needed to be done but apparently Indiana has no laws regarding mold remediation and the homeowner’s responsibility. I’m waiting to move into a senior apartment complex so I can leave this mess behind.
Black mold is often a death sentence for a building. This is because it is both extremely hard and expensive to eliminate, and insurance companies refuse to cover its removal.
A lot of tenants refuse to rent such places once they learn of it. So some owners try to gift their building to a local public college or other institution as a tax write off. Such institutions often don’t know or care if their staff or students are exposed to it.
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