What Else Could Go Wrong?

Our buyers asked for a mold test in the basement. We agreed. Someone came out on Saturday and we received an email on Wednesday.

Attached are the results from the air test that were taken at your home on 3/20/15. I spoke to the lab and they say that the kitchen is fine, but the levels in the basement are a little high and recommend some extra cleaning.

 Doesn't sound too bad, does it?

They suggest HEPA vacuuming the entire basement while running an air scrubber as well as changing the filter on your HVAC unit and possibly having the ducts cleaned. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to schedule the work to be done.

If we weren't in the middle of selling the house, I would take that as "It's fine, but we are a business and some extra stuff could benefit you so let me recommend some services." I am not surprised our basement read "a little" high because it had a week of contractors destroying and rebuilding the place. They removed the basement window from it's frame so they could throw trash out and come and go without marching through the house.

Carrie got a quote ($1500! What!?), contacted insurance (USAA), and they agreed to pay (Phew!). 

I came home on Friday to find this.

We didn't realize that they were going to run the air-scrubber all weekend long! They did a great job vacuuming, though. We didn't have to clean a thing downstairs.

Morale of the story: If you have USAA, get your home insurance through them. If you don't have USAA, join the armed forces or marry someone who's a member.