The real estate listing for the Schaumburg home said, “so well-maintained that you can move right in, and not lift a finger.”
Cathy Arrington knew it was her dream home and she just couldn’t wait.
After she closed the deal and moved in, she thought she had finally gotten her heart’s desire.
But just weeks after closing Arrington’s perfect suburban home began to reveal its true colors.
The place was full of mold, asbestos, and thousands of dollars worth of issues.
Issues she never knew about.
Arrington says that after a few weeks in her new home, dirt and dust began coming up.
She called in the experts and they found mold in the pipes, and all throughout her home.
Almost like an episode of Stranger Things.
Many real estate transactions actually fail to go through once home inspection results are done.
Potential buyers really need to do a lot of research and ask a lot of questions.
No one wants to buy a nightmare.
Cathy adored the photos in the listing, but the problem was that an air quality test wasn’t included in the standard home inspection.
Cathy doesn’t remember signing any sort of disclosure either.
A disclosure acknowledging that mold might exist inside the house.
This was a treasure trove of a homeowner’s worst dreams.
Eric Barker from Allan Environmental Services shared that there are a lot of homes in the Chicago area with the same problem.
Homes that are infested with mold, which most homeowners aren’t even aware of.
Mold is so common in Chicago since it’s a city that is really close to a large body of water.
So the area gets a lot of moisture and tends to be humid.
Conditions for mold to grow indoors, which property owners aren’t exactly aware of.
Arrington then told him that she had the mold in her house sprayed, but Barker says that without knowing what it was sprayed with, there’s no way to tell if the mold was actually killed.
Imagine living there after parting with your money.
Arrington said, “When you see the advertisement homes, whatever, move-in ready, that’s not true. If you’re moving in, look behind walls, underground, everything”.
She’s now just trying to move past it and bear with all the issues.
She deals with them by the day even though it pains her to know that what was once her dream home is now a massive headache.
Arrington spent near $300 to have the mold testing completed.
She got the results in less than 24 hours, revealing that there was indeed mold growing in her kitchen, though not exactly at elevated levels.
But those levels could affect young children, including those with respiratory illnesses.
It is a cute home when you look at it from the outside.
Except it would take a whole lot of money to get rid of all the issues inside, and to make sure they never happen again.
Potential buyers beware, take Arrington’s story as a warning.
You’re in for a scare.
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