Mold Forces Student Out of Housing
Mold Problems in College Houses
College students have enough to worry about dealing with term papers and final exams. A University of Florida student was featured in a mold news story recently when she was forced to deal with a test of another kind.
Late last summer, Emily Huber of Gainesville contacted management at her apartment complex to report a leak in the bathroom. After noticing a foul odor, she went to put a suitcase away in her bedroom closet where she discovered a growth of black mold.
Ms. Huber asked her mother to travel from her home in Panama City to handle the problem while she attended classes. Management expected her to remain in the apartment while it was treated, but she and her mother felt it wasn’t safe regardless of their assurances so Ms. Huber spent two nights in a hotel.
Contractors removed half the wall in the closet and installed an air scrubber and a dehumidifier inside, but the smell remained. In addition, nearly everything inside the closet had come in contact with the mold. Ms. Huber suspects that the mold caused an illness she had suffered a couple of weeks earlier.
While Ms. Huber feels management and workers have not been treating the mold infestation as a health issue, she’s not demanding compensation. She’s asking to be reimbursed only for her hotel stay and the cost of the electricity to run the two machines.
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