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Category: Mold News | Tags: remediation water damage insurance
For the past three months, Yolanda and Micah Ochs and their four children have been living with an open question: When can we go home? In December, the family was forced to leave the modest three-bedroom house in south Largo after it became infested with mold, causing breathing problems for the entire family.

Spore colonies hidden in the walls were missed by inspectors when the family bought the house in 2008, and as time went on, the fungi spread — culminating in a bloom of black mold in November after an air conditioner malfunction.

A dust of mold coated the carpet, walls, couches and even the stuffed animals of Giovanna, 3, the family's youngest child. Most of their belongings had to be thrown out. The damage was estimated to be about $40,000; the family's insurance cap for mold damage was only $10,000.

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