Homeowners Mold Problem

News commercial comes on last night about a story the 9 Team was covering of a homeowner who is living in home that has a horrible mold problem. So it sparked my interest because in real estate we come across mold issues so I thought I would watch the story before I went to bed. Long and behold it is about my hometown of Newark.

My heart goes out to Freddy Ballester and his family and also the other Third St property owners that are suffering with this mold problem.

The facts I state here are solely from the news story viewed on TV and now online as I interpret them. These homeowners purchased these properties from the City of Newark over 6 years ago. Over the years the homes have developed the most horrible mold problem and have been contacting the City of Newark since December 2005 to help with the situation. According to a mold inspector the average range of spores is 50 to 3500 and in Mr. Ballester basement picked up a range of 84,400 spores. Spores I'm going to assume measures the amount of mold. That is beyond dangerously levels of mold. Mold is a very serious issue since it can cause health issues. And as the news report states that Mr. Ballester has 2 out of 3 asthmatic family members that live in the household. The report states that in May 2008 Cory Booker was confronted with this issue and he claimed not to have any knowledge of it and would research it. The report also states that 3 weeks ago (Mid-October), Mr. Ballester attended one of the cities meeting and sat down with Cory Booker and addressed it again and now present day still no repairs have been made...nothing.

Shame, Shame, Shame City of Newark and even bigger Shame to Cory Booker. Don't get me wrong I Love Newark. And I have personally meet Cory Booker at one of the cities event and believe that he has done this city a good change but I was so shocked that he would let this get so far and not solve the problem. He might have acknowledge it back in May of 2008 but 6 months later NOTHING...I am shaking my head.

To view Mr. Freddy Ballester's Story (& Third St. properties) first video clip of click here. The video clip that I viewed last night was the update video clip which they don't have on their website. You need to scroll down and select Homeowners Mold Problem.