All Forum Posts by: Genny Li

 I challenge you to hire the same company for any of your properties. They're going to tell you that mold spores are everywhere, too, and you need to gut the properties. 

  You revived a Necro thread!

You aren't entitled to compensation. You weren't harmed.  Sign the NDA and leave or stay in your lease. Everywhere has mold spores of all sorts. Literally everywhere. Those companies are a scam that prey on stupid people, and the apartment complex just wants you gone rather than deal with this silliness. 

Mold issues are just allergy issues. Mold spores are literally everywhere. Above a threshold, people react to it. Fatigue might seem a weird reaction to an allergy, but it's surprisingly common. I have an aunt diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She would have relapses multiple times per year. Turned out she was super allergic to two types of pollen! Dust does the same thing to me. 

The black mold scare of the 90s was found to be complete bunk and nonsense. Your health hasn't been "permanently damaged" by this. And people with no mold allergies (like me!) wouldn't be bothered at all. Get a house without a basement and make sure you use ventilation correctly. 

 No, I'm not. The natural stone is actually QUARTZITE, not quartz. A good quality quartz, which is natural stone plus a binder, has a lifetime lifespan. It will yellow slightly over time, but it's still pretty much lifetime. People take it out because they get tired of it or they mistreat it and damage it. 

 You need this guy:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/333504784701 

It makes anyone into an undercutting genius. 

Undercut the jams PROPERLY. They make this little ocillating tool that makes it a breeze. Leave the required space (usually 1/4") along the wall. 

I would not recommend a DIY noob doing the stick down after my poor friend goofed it. Use click only. Other than that, it's easy peasy.

I'd use shoe molding to cover the gap. Get the painted stuff not the LVP matching stuff because you're gonna mess it up a little the first time and cut the outer corners .5 degrees more sharply than 45 to insure a good mating angle. 

DO NOT LAY IT LIKE A LADDER. Keep a good 4 widths running at a time so the cuts don't run like stairsteps across the floor. That's super amateur looking. 

Make sure you don't have identifiable patterns next to each other. Get it nicely mixed up. 

Start from the centerline of the floor and work out.  Measure first to make sure you don't end up with weird slivers. Don't start hugging a wall because walls aren't square. 

Get your butt up there and find the leak. Relying on roofing contractors to do it is a good way to get taken to the cleaners. 

It's basically a lifetime surface unless you damage it. It doesn't wear like laminate.

Sorry, I'm with him. That is super close to his house and is gross. If it does start smelling, it will be a legal nuisance to him. Plastic bin lids keep in stink much better. 

if you want to gamble on it, put up a fence to the side to be respectful so he doesn't have to look at it. Otherwise, go the $100 route. 

Apartments. With amenities. Kids don't want to deal with a lawn while they're trying to go to school. 

The alternative are the heavy fee HOA townhomes for the rich kids, but you still end up doing all the landscaping like an apartment complex.

There are a bazillion of these apartment complexes and communities across the US. Take a look at what they typically offer.