Posted by Lisa on 6/09/05

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Hi My name is Lisa , my family and I purchased a home in 2001.
WIthin a year we had a leak into our kitchen from the
upstairs shower pan. We noticed mold Growth our Insurance
Company came out and said OK remediate. We own a restoration
company does Fire, Water and mold and Reconstruction, as we
contained and packed up my entire kitchen, had no where to
cook as so forth, we noticed as we removed the kitchen
flooring that went into the foyer that there were more water
issues and sub flooring had been cutout and replaced and had
mold all over it. As we continued we pulled carpeting to
find that the $24,000 the previous owner spent putting new
windows and doors in were leaking as well. By the 3rd year
at the age of 36 I suffered a stroke losing my right side.
In three months time I regained the use of my right side.
Now living in my $2,300.00 a month home practically gutted,
I was laying on a matress on the floor eating anything u
could cook in the microwave. My children suffered the same
and had chronic nose bleeds and headaches.The same year I
had my stroke my mom was diagnosed with Lymphoma Cancer and
died within the year. THe next year same month I had a
second stroke but knew what it was and got to the emergency
room on time. We moved out of our home and into my parents.
Upon my mothers death the house that we built for them my
father moved back to Florida and let us rent it. Now we had
investment propertys and were trying to build a retirement
my son was getting ready to graduate and go to college, we
were ready. We have 5 mortgages, all the electric and water
bills.Storage bills, remediation to workers. We contacted a
lwayer and filed a suit as the previous owner did not
disclose anything they obviously hid. Whew.... the year I
was at my mothers was very hard, to sleep in her bed as all
our belongings except for clothing were packed in storages,
we had those bills too. We were told to wait for the
attornies, we waited long enough and decided to remediate
and reconstruct before the lawsuit so we would not lose our
home. We sold all our investment homes to get the money,
plus any profits the company made. The entire year I lived
at my parents home no problems, everyone was better. We did
it, remediation successful and reconstruction done December
2004 to the tune of $120,000.00, we had a walmart christmas.
I am told proving mold illness is impossible, my strokes may
have been brought on by stress of the situation, doesn't all
our suffering and loss count. My son does not go to college
he works at circut city and is waiting for us to help
finacially. I know alot about mold and we help people
everyday who are going through the same thing, we lower
prices and are sympathetic. Doesn't this count???

Toxic Tort, 6/09/05, by Lisa.

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