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Mold in Real Estate Sales – Some Tips for Consideration

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Mold Can Be Detrimental to Your Health.

Mold Can Be Detrimental to Your Health.

Anyone involved in real estate buying or selling can be affected by health-damaging mold. Seeping moisture or troublesome leaks that are discovered in residential (and commercial) buildings raise red flags for home buyers and sellers. How can Stern’s NYC mold removal team help you gain the upper hand? Check below to find out some tidbits that can ensure mold doesn’t negatively impact your goals.

Q-Tips for Mold

There are several important questions you can ask yourself or others when dealing with mold to help you prepare for mold complications. Here are a few of them:

– How much do I know about mold?

– What are the signs of mold growth?

– How does mold affect my/your health? Why does mold trigger buyer’s remorse?

– Should a buyer or seller pay for a mold inspection? Is it worth it?

– Is mold remediation within my selling (or buying) budget?

– What is causing mold to grow? Is it the climate or something else?

– What is the difference between common mold and black mold?

Our Trusted Stern NYC Mold Removal Team

Asking the right questions benefit all parties involved. If you’re seeking to purchase a home, look for tell-tale signs of mold. If you have any doubts about a home’s safety, seeking professional help is the only answer. It can spare you from health issues and costly expenditures in the future.

If you wish to sell your home or business and wonder if mold will affect your selling power/profit, wonder no longer! Our NYC mold removal team is ready to stop the mold before it becomes a real hazard. Don’t allow mold to contaminate your goals. Make the right inquiries–get positive results!

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What Home Sellers Need to Know About Mold Before Listing

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What Home Sellers Need to Know About Mold Before Listing

What Home Sellers Need to Know About Mold Before Listing

How will your house fare on the market? Are you looking to sell but you’re unsure because of mold concerns? If mold problems arise, it’s best to get them out the open and eradicate the mold. Stern Mold’s NYC mold removal team is great at helping you clear out the problem so your home can clear a profit!

Getting to Work

What can you do to keep mold out of your home and from affecting your home’s sale value? Here are some things to do when mold spores are infiltrating your bottom line:

1. Don’t wait! Remediate–or in this instance, call a mold inspection and remediation crew you can trust. Stern Mold’s NYC mold removal team is standing by to help!

2. Be observant. It pays off in the long term. Seek out areas where mold flourishes. Basements, laundry areas, water heaters, bathrooms, ceilings and areas where water sits awhile are all prime mold spore growth areas.

3. Repair water-damaged areas. If you know where a leak is, get to it quickly. Damp materials lead to a mold paradise. If you get to a leak in time you may be able to prevent mold from becoming an expensive headache later on.

4. Be a good note taker. Your efforts to document repairs can show prospective buyers that you’ve done the work so you don’t have to fork out extra cash if costly mold surprises pop up in the future.

If You Hide It–It’s Still There

If you think you may have a mold problem, it won’t go away on its own. Stern Mold can clean up the mold so you can make out with profit!

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Buying a Foreclosed Property? Be Careful with Possible Mold Cover-ups!

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Fixer Uppers May Harbor Hidden Mold

When buying foreclosed property, it would be wonderful if buyers could trust that the home they are buying has been inspected for mold. It would be equally wonderful that if mold were found, it would be taken care of by NYC mold removal specialists.

The Moldy Cover-Up

Unfortunately, according to real estate agents and contractors, this isn’t always the case. The reality is that many homes affected with mold are being doctored up, so to speak, to hide the telltale signs of mold damage. This is deceitful on many levels.

In some instances, it can be purely a lack of knowledge and understanding about the health hazards associated with mold. In these cases, the moldy area may be painted over, or baseboards replaced, and everyone thinks that it’s OK.

Mold Symptoms

Mold can trigger different reactions such as irritated eyes, runny nose, seasonal allergies, and fatigue. Often, people misdiagnose the symptoms believing they may be coming down with a cold or the flu. Also, coming into contact with mold can cause the skin to become irritated. This is known as sporotrichosis.

What people can’t see are the tiny spores that travel through the air undetected. When inhaled, these spores can cause respiratory issues.

When you enter a room and smell a musty odor, that is the result of the mold producing volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which can be dangerous to your health.

At Stern, our NYC mold removal experts are equipped with the latest method called MoldExterm. It’s a less expensive method and we back the service with a comprehensive guarantee. Contact us at your earliest convenience if you suspect mold has infiltrated your property.

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