Housing News

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July 4, 2008 – 12:37 am

Eight HSC complexes are now being monitored by HU and local churches in Washington and Oregon State. Those locations - Bainbridge, Is., Burien, Bellingham, Kennewick, Kent, Marysville, Salem, Corvallis.

Teams posing as young marries couples 25-39, near perfect backgrounds began to set up internet cameras in the homes. 39 members take turns guarding each other as eight day air quality samples are performed.

HU selected these units based on handheld samplers at the time of the rental. The highest reading above 102 um/dl hr was selected. 80 is considered marginally safe by the CDC. Merv 11's will catch the samples indoors, smaller handheld filter samplers will obtain the base reference.

July 4, 2008 – 2:56 pm

This test was conducted in order to facilitate the identification of possible biological agents present on interior surfaces at Jefferson Lakes Apartments 12400 Jefferson Hwy. Baton Rouge, LA. 70816. These pages from the report contain the type of testing that was done in 6 apartments in the Phase 3 buildings along with the results and recommendations. The results show HIGH levels (in 3 of the 6 and low to medium in 1) of apparent microbial growth which is not consistent with naturally occurring conditions.

Again - as in the 49 units of the 76 inspected in Phase 1 & 2 that have mold in the HVAC system these do too. Also included are the recommendations of the visual inspection of apartments in phase 1 & 2 buildings that were posted earlier.

Yet Riverstone Residential after knowing of my 2005 report documenting MOLD denies that they know of mold. And they continue to LIE saying no one reports mold!

More about that here - http://this-is-not-okay.blogspot.com/2008/05/will-politics-affect-my-right-to-fair.html.

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The Louisiana Housing Finance Agency was notified of a report done in 2005.

People are living there now. They still allow people to move in even with documented evidence of the TOXIC ENVIRONMENT. This includes INFANTS and CHILDREN. This is a Public Health Issue.

Photos of extensive mold in apt. 2907 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/23021578@N03/sets/72157605542240095/Photos of the 2007 Mold Inspection Report - http://www.flickr.com/photos/23021578@N03/sets/72157605890888165/

We were interested in finding out the state of some regional banks, in hopes that would improve our perspective and understanding of what may be ahead for financial institutions in general, in some way.

Fewer building approvals due to high interest rates is bad news for those looking to buy or rent a home, economists say.

LONDON : Luxury-home prices in central London, the world's most expensive location for prime real estate, fell for a second month in June as sales slumped, Knight Frank said.

Single-family residential sales registered a fourth straight monthly increase in June as buyers found bargains on the Seacoast.

The number of homeowners facing an increase in their subprime adjustable-rate mortgage payments will peak this summer, testing the efforts of lenders and others to keep those people out of foreclosure and ...

During a bustling lunch hour in this Welsh commuter town, 25-year-old Richard Williams is one of the few who pause to look at properties for sale in a real-estate agent's window _ and he isn't buying.

'I'd love to, but I'm single and I can't afford to buy anything on my own, nobody would give me a mortgage,' explained Williams, a delivery driver who has just moved back home with his parents after his rent went up.

The plight of Williams _ and hundreds more like him _ has made Wrexham, located on the doorstep of the mountain peaks of the stunning Snowdonia National Park, one of the towns hardest hit by the global credit squeeze.

Now half-way through the new year, today seems to be as good a time as any to have a look at the predictions for 2008 made back in January.

File photo shows workers dismantling scaffoldings from building in Singapore. Singapore's booming residential property sector is finally showing signs of cooling but projects including two casino developments ...

Bank of America on Tuesday completed a $2.5 billion acquisition of Countrywide Financial Corp., a day after the state of Florida sued the nation's largest mortgage lender for allegedly making loans to consumers who couldn't afford them.

The second-largest U.S. bank by assets said Countrywide shareholders received .1822 of a share of Bank of America stock for each share they held of the lender.

The bank, which is among the market leaders in South Florida, agreed in January to buy Countrywide for $4 billion in stock but has lost half its market value in the past year. It dropped 17 percent in the past two weeks on falling home prices and reports of other lawsuits against Countrywide of Calabasas, Calif.

The latest home price risk forecast shows that Dallas-Fort Worth is overall the safest place in the country for stable home values.

The CEO of Atlanta-based homebuilder Beazer Homes USA Inc. received a compensation package last year valued at $3.2 million, with more than half of it coming from stock awarded to him as part of a bonus for his ...

THE impact of high interest rates and the growing cost of living pressures continue to be felt in the housing sector, a survey shows, with new home sales falling in May.

As if the real estate slump weren't severe enough - with prices sinking and foreclosures dumping ever more homes on the market - another threat has emerged: rising mortgage rates.

Journal Sentinel Inc., publisher of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, said Wednesday it will cut about 10 percent of its 1,300 full-time employees due to continued industrywide declines in advertising sales.

Home buyers who believe a seller has lied to them cannot sue for fraud to recover damages, a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court said Tuesday.

As automakers dropped their latest batch of awful sales numbers on the market on Tuesday, reinforcing the gloom spreading across the economy, the troubles confronting American workers seemed to intensify.

posted at: 07/02/2008 04:53:34 PM

Updated at: 07/02/2008 05:46:55 PM

By: Brett Davidsen

I-Team 10 follow-up: Lung transplant needed due to moldy home

Their house is condemned, they've filed for bankruptcy and now they're on public assistance. Think things can't get worse for a Sodus couple? Well, they have.

I-Team 10 first told you about Mark and Darlene Sovie's problems which started when they found toxic mold in their home and tonight, their situation has now become life or death. "This is what my life consists of now. I'm on five inhalers, Prednisone, and this is what I have to do every day just to breath."

Darlene Sovie never dreamed her life would take a turn like this. "I'm very weak. I sleep a lot. Lord knows I have trouble breathing." Her medical problems started when she and her husband bought a house in 2003. When they moved in, toxic black mold was growing in places they couldn't yet see. The house has since been condemned by the town of Sodus.

When I-Team 10 first went into the house in March of last year, the mold was on the walls, ceilings, and even covering the furniture. Now, it's spread to the house's exterior as well. But worse than that, the mold is now in Darlene's lungs. A pulmonary specialist diagnosed her with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and has recommended her for a lung transplant.

"It was bad enough that we ended up losing our credit trying to get out from under this. We ended up losing all of our possessions, that's monetary stuff. But when they said my life was on the line, I said, that's it."

Retail vacancies nationwide hover around 10 percent, according to ReStore, the retail division of commercial real estate services firm NAI Global, and could reach 12 percent or more by end of the year.