Flipping a house with extensive mold (advice or order of repairs)

Flipping a house with extensive mold (advice or order of repairs)

Mount Prospect, IL · Member since 2017 · 16 posts · 4 votes

Dear all,

We have placed an offer on a house with extensive mold (half of the house) due to several holes in the roof. Do you have advice for an order of repairs? Thank you very very much for your help!!!! 

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  • Investor · Chicago, IL · Member since 2009 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
    9y

    Some say mold is gold.  You get a big discount and usually it is repairable.   House will need to be gutted and then treated on the inside.  Once re-roofed, you have stopped the source of molds growth.

    Still not a project for beginners.

  • Flipper/Rehabber · Montgomery, NY · Member since 2016 · 2k+ posts · 1k+ votes
    9y

    My first steps if I had a house filled with mold due to a bad roof, would be to have a dumpster there day one, and a roofer there as well. Fix the roof and get the mold/sheetrock/insulation out. At that point you can access what more needs to be done to get rid of the issues if they go deeper than the "skin".

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