We visited a very sick house a while back. It was a house that at the time was dying because its reluctant owner, a bank, wasn’t paying any attention to its immediate medical needs! We think “medical needs” is the right phrase. This house WAS SICK – having become a health hazard in just 5 or 6 weeks of complete neglect. The “disease” (mold), if left unchecked much, longer would have left only one fiable fix for this once loved home – a bulldozer!

This was a solid house when the bank took it back. But with that year’s heavy rains and commensurate basement moisture issues, residual dampness in this basement was creating a mega problem. A $150 dehumidifier and some much needed ventilation was all that it would have taken to keep this cancer from getting a foothold.

We list foreclosures and help buyers find them. We get inside an awful lot of these properties and sometimes “awful” is exactly the right word – our tour of this home was testament to that. We’ll spare you more about the sites and smells when we got to the bottom of the basement stairs – let’s just say the idea of inhaling while we where in the basement was not very appealing and we didn’t feel much like eating for awhile!

We know that many banks are overloaded with foreclosures and are struggling to keep up. But mold doesn’t wait for protocol or paperwork. Bad financial situations can become financial disasters in only a few short months without at least some minimal property management. We’ve seen too many vacant foreclosures that sell only after a long time and only after large price cuts. Its a shame.

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