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Message: [QUOTE="Greedo, post: 4016550, member: 9992"] I really appreciate all of the input. The only places we physically found mold in the basement was in a built-in cabinet located in the center of the finished part of the basement, and in built-in shelves. The mold inspector said he would tear out the whole basement down to the studs because it doesn't make sense why there is mold in the cabinets that are literally floating in the middle of the basement (they're in between the two posts and contain the radon mitigation in addition to storage). The house does have french drains running all along the front and side of the house, with a sealant on the foundation. Since moving in, I have searched and cannot find any evidence of water damage in the basement besides that cabinet - which is what the inspector said. I think he didn't find mold in the basement because the previous owner had tons of their stuff in those cabinets. Obviously there may be mold under the carpet or in the walls that we can't see - the situation is just strange because there isn't evidence of water damage anywhere else. The seller did disclose they had done remediation in the attic, and we knew the attic was an issue going in and knew we would just remediate that and improve ventilation there and thought we'd be good. We had zero evidence at the time of issues in the basement - like I said, french drains, sealant on the foundation, no signs of damage in the basement all made us feel good about the basement when we bought the house. It was also clear the previous owner was extremely meticulous with maintaining the house - he has multiple binders maintaining records of everything he's done, what colors and materials he's used, etc. The attic has a fan and cross ventilation. It is super humid in there despite that. I think a big issue with the humidity is just that the house is in the woods. It's completely surrounded with massive, old growth trees that I think are just capturing moisture and holding it there. I didn't really think about this possibility when buying the house, and didn't notice humidity issues when walking through. It sucked with this market we didn't have time to really do our full due diligence. That's partially why we're considering just remediating the mold and selling the house in a year or two, since we keep running into issues that just weren't apparent before and we're not really interested in just dumping money into potential fixes and crossing our fingers that it solves the problems. [/QUOTE]

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