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- Aug 13, 2010
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I'm going through the worst possible scenario and need some advice. I've got a basement suite and the tenant first reported some mold along the baseboard. They used this to break their lease and move out. During the move out they informed my property manager of health issues. So I got an environmental assessment ASAP and just got the results... The mold that leads to black mold and its pretty much all around the perimeter of the suite. So they are recommending 4'of drywall to be removed from just about the entire suite. So the kitchen and bathroom will have to be removed.
But that's not the only bad news the tenant has called Alberta healthy and the secondary suites. So I have to decide between decommissioning the suite or dealing with the mold and pulling a permit to bring it up to code... And I've only owned this property for 8 months, not quite what the plan was!
Has anyone gone though a full suite remediation? Or death with health issues that may not be covered by insurance?
My plan right now is to get the remediation done and figure out what has caused the mold obviously fix it. But I'm tempted to decommission the suite, until I'm sure that the mold is not coming back. If I do this does anyone know if I can then apply for the cornerstone grant to put the suite back in and get it up to code? Or if decommissioning puts me in the it's a new suite which the cornerstone will not help absentee landlords?
Thanks for any advise with this!
But that's not the only bad news the tenant has called Alberta healthy and the secondary suites. So I have to decide between decommissioning the suite or dealing with the mold and pulling a permit to bring it up to code... And I've only owned this property for 8 months, not quite what the plan was!
Has anyone gone though a full suite remediation? Or death with health issues that may not be covered by insurance?
My plan right now is to get the remediation done and figure out what has caused the mold obviously fix it. But I'm tempted to decommission the suite, until I'm sure that the mold is not coming back. If I do this does anyone know if I can then apply for the cornerstone grant to put the suite back in and get it up to code? Or if decommissioning puts me in the it's a new suite which the cornerstone will not help absentee landlords?
Thanks for any advise with this!