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Posted on 06/28/2026 6:53:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There’s a new trend that will make it even harder to buy or sell a house.
There is a highly lucrative theater production playing out across the American landscape, and if it is allowed to go unchallenged, it threatens to paralyze both private commerce and public health under the guise of safety. It is a shell game driven by an institutional ecosystem of specialists who have learned that the easiest way to manage a narrative, extract compliance, and dodge accountability is to invent an invisible, unprovable enemy.
The most visible front of this theater is currently emerging in the real estate market, where anxious home buyers are increasingly hiring “mold-sniffing dogs” during pre-sale inspections. A handler walks a canine through a pristine, well maintained living room; the dog suddenly sits or paws at a baseboard. The handler turns to the room and confidently announces that they have an “alert.” Of course, the dog is poised to receive a treat.
In that single, performative moment, a multi-hundred-thousand-dollar transaction stalls. The buyer panics, instantly imagining a toxic wasteland hidden behind the drywall. The seller is put on the defensive, forced to prove a negative, and the market freezes. Yet beneath the impressive display of canine biology lies a massive, high-stakes canard that completely ignores scientific reality.
A dog’s nose is undoubtedly a magnificent piece of biological hardware, capable of detecting the volatile organic compounds released by fungi. But a dog is fundamentally a binary instrument — it can signal only a “yes” or a “no.” It cannot communicate the crucial data points that actually matter in microbiology: concentration and variety. Mold is not an exotic invader; it is omnipresent. It exists in the background baseline of every healthy home on the planet. A dog might alert to a microscopic
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Will banks start requiring this inspection before approving a home loan?
Mold grows everywhere on earth. As long as it does test negative for black mold it is not a problem.
Ping!................
We live in the world, which is not pure.
Arsenic, lead, uranium, radon, bacteria, viruses, molds etc. are all completely natural substances we can not avoid.
We just have to live with them to a degree!
But are industry of scare keep us scared of all these poisons in trace amounts.
It is Not presence of the substance, but the amount of such substance, what is important!
Take the dog inside the bank’s vault.
All the contents will have to be removed, pronto.
Do you have a garden at your house? Do you turn over the soil in the spring prior to planting? Congratulations youve just been exposed to mold. Maybe you think it’s okay because you’re outside and theres lots of fresh air. Sorry but there are mold spores in the air too.
Our species has been on the planet for maybe 200 thousand years and we lived in caves and damp hovels for much of that time right along side mold. Yes, it’s certainly true that some people are allergic to mold but this whole panic about mold is irrational. But, Theres a way to make money off of unreasonable so…
Something plumbers watched happen was the sudden appearance of an incredibly lucrative business of water damage restoration, before you would get a wet vac and dry things out the best you could if a pipe burst and your house got wet, now companies charge 10s of thousands of dollars and it is an industry, with fans and low paid, low skilled guys to bring in and plug in the fans and heaters.
The field is so lucrative that a plumber turning the address over to the business gets 10% off the top just for the phone call, the companies fight to get the plumbers to to make the call to them and when they do a check arrives in the mail, $800, $1500, $2000, not bad for a single phone call after you finished your plumbing repair.
We had to do mold mitigation on two properties we have sold. I don’t really mind. We didn’t involve dogs either time. The first one was about 12 years ago and we could even smell it. The second one was about ten years ago and the buyers had a baby and I think it was appropriate.
NOTHING is a bigger scam than radon testing and remediation.
INTEGRITY^
When the dog is able talk and to identify the mold species and concentration levels, let me know. There used to be a pest control guy in Houston that had a dog trained to find termites, and I think it was pretty successful in doing that, but of course nothing is foolproof.
When the dog is able talk and to identify the mold species and concentration levels, let me know. There used to be a pest control guy in Houston that had a dog trained to find termites, and I think it was pretty successful in doing that, but of course nothing is foolproof.
I foresee the “No dogs allowed” clause in home purchase contracts.
Get an ozone machine and run it for 48 hours with no one in the house. Then let the dog go in :-)
If there’s water damage anywhere, be very cautious.
Try to get stats on the accuracy rate of “drug sniffing” dogs that police use. It is clear from the overwhelming number of false positives that the dogs are just alerting for the reward. I would suspect the same here.
When exercising my dog at a local dog park, I met a gentleman exercising his beagle. He told me it was the dog’s day off from work. Intrigued I asked what did the dog do for work. He replied that the beagle was a bedbug sniffing dog and was hired by hotels and other places like colleges to sniff out bedbug infestations. Alas my Black Lab was only good for sniffing out anything remotely edible on kitchen counters.
Just like the radon scam. An entire industry built around a perceived risk and nothing but a drain on the economy.
Mold cam be a big issue for some individuals. About five years ago I tested positive for mold exposure. We had had no water damage or leaks at our house and couldn’t find the source. Then we moved and when we pulled our headboard away from the wall, we found it. We had built our headboard out of an antique door, and it was on the back of the door. Didn’t notice it at all when we place it there, but I had been sleeping right next to the source. Didn’t affect my husband at all.
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