National Apartment Association Tells Its Members MOLD CAUSES DEATH; Tells Courts It Doesn’t With The Help of US Chamber and UCLA

Thank You National Apartment Association. I will do my best to get this very important information out ASAP to numerous owners, investors, huge property management companies (e.g., Riverstone Residential), attorneys, and judges, AND, of course, to the MANY people who are currently living in MOLD-INFESTED APARTMENT COMPLEXES right now! katy

Michael J. Sorba, Staff Writer

SAN BERNARDINO – Residents of Sunset Ridge Apartment Complex say leaky water pipes and roofs have caused mold to grow in their homes.

Two say it’s resulted in vomiting, headaches and respiratory problems.

“It’s on the baseboards, the walls,” said Christine Saul. “Some of the mold you can see on the back side of the carpets. It smells like mildew.”

Saul first complained to management Aug. 14 when a pipe in a master bedroom wall began leaking. A pipe leak under the floor flooded the room, it’s adjacent bathroom and the kitchen Aug. 15.

Saul said she notified a maintenance worker who told her he could not complete the job by himself. The next day workers fixed the leak, removed some of the soaked carpet padding, suctioned water from the kitchen floor and partially dried the carpet, Saul said.

“There’s still moisture in the padding and you can smell the mold,” Saul said.

Saul says she’s suffered headaches and vomiting.

Frank Gonzales said management cut a hole in his bedroom wall to fix a leaky pipe, but immediately patched it without giving moisture time to evaporate. Management did nothing to dry water that soaked the carpet, said Gonzales’ girlfriend, Sharon French, who also lives there.

He said bathroom walls and the toilet must be cleaned with bleach every few days or the mold will accumulate.

Corwin Porter, acting chief of county Public Health and Code Enforcement departments, said mold grows in areas where moisture lingers, such as the area around a leaky pipe or a bathroom with poor ventilation. There’s not a local agency that responds to mold, but code enforcement will usually respond to the problem causing mold to grow, Porter said.

City Code Enforcement officials said the department will respond to code compliance complaints from the apartment complex.

Keishauna Williams says a leaky roof flooded the living room of her second story apartment during a rain storm earlier this year. She says management hasn’t repaired the leak, but did place a tarp over the roof. The wet carpet grew mold, she said. Since the roof leak hasn’t been fixed, she’s worried moisture that remains in the structure has caused mold to grow there.

“Everyone’s getting sick. We’ve all just been really sick,” Williams said.

She says she will call code enforcement and won’t pay rent until the roof is fixed.

“I have my rights,” she said.

An office employee at the complex at 1700 E. Date St. declined to state his name and referred questions regarding resident complaints to its parent company, Cannon Management. A secretary at Cannon’s Riverside office said a manager was not immediately able to respond Thursday.

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