I’m only seeing a short article. We all often have regrets, and buying our condo in Rochester for $175,000 was initially a regret, due to the black mold that was later found, but in the end and after remediation it has turned out okay. This is in Rochester, MI and we bought our place in March of 2021. We were living in Los Angeles when we bought the place and trusted our real estate agent to do his due diligence. He did not.
You have to make it work. You don’t have choice. We kept working and I finally retired at 70. House is good now and I love the area. In the end, it cost us right around $85,000 to first get rid of all the black mold and then make the house nice with new windows, flooring, new copper plumbing and finally just this last month, a brand new remodeled kitchen. So 85k between labor and supplies. Same model House down the street just sold for $300,000.
I tell my kids and kids friends to save money - prepare for the future. And that is something I’ll admit is hard to do at this time. But they have to figure it out. They don’t have a choice.
I'll wager you signed a disclosure form discussing mold as an environmental hazard which advised you to get a mold inspection (among other things) as part of your transaction.