Emergency Housing for Our Family

Venmo is faster! @qc-phoenix

We discovered a mushroom growing out of our bathroom wall Wednesday night. The drywall was squishy on that wall and the adjacent wall. There was a major flood in our kitchen a month ago which also backed up our bathtub, so it's likely that pipes all around our apartment were affected. The landlord handled it promptly and got a big fan in to dry everything out. Now we've spoken to a mold remediation specialist and that was the worst thing you could do.

We've all had seemingly unrelated major health issues in the last month and we just realized this all could be related to the water issues now becoming apparent in our bathroom. Since they opened the wall I've had throat and chest tightness every time I'm in the apartment for very long.

In NH landlords are not required to put us up in a hotel while they abate the health hazard. We were able to afford a hotel Thursday night but we are out of money.

Lastly, if you or someone you know lives in NH or within an hour or two of Manchester who could foster a cat or two, we need to get the cats out too. We have a 7 year old cat, spayed, low maintenance, and a 13 year old cat, spayed, with a chronic respiratory infection (management involves a daily probiotic powder in her wet food at night and if she coughs or sneezes bloody mucus/saliva, we take her to the vet for antibiotics, which we can do if the foster alerts us) who does not like other cats but will tolerate them if they leave her alone. I think they both prefer dogs who will leave them alone, but have lived with dogs before. We will provide litter boxes, litter, dry and wet food, probiotic powder for Adele, and some treats and catnip. For now the total includes the common $25/pet/night fee at hotels.

Spoke with a mold remediation specialist. He’s coming tomorrow for a full consult but based on what we told him was done already, maintenance not only didn’t handle this correctly, but they actively made it worse by doing the one worst thing they could possibly have done.

Nothing can be done by anyone until Monday because of the holiday and the weekend. And yes, I mean *everyone*. Kendall has been calling everyone we could think of. Building inspectors, housing authority, insurance, landlord, etc. the only one that’s accommodating the timing is the mold expert!

a) we absolutely cannot safely stay here

b) we can’t afford it out of pocket

c) renters insurance may not cover “loss of use” in this situation because it’s an “ongoing” leak rather than, say, a pipe bursting. The landlord will hopefully be compelled to reimburse us, but regardless, we have no way to shelter ourselves this weekend, and we won’t know anything until Monday, let alone have reimbursement then.