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This past December has been a very cold one and I’ve been running the wall heater and an additional heater I procured in order to keep my apartment warm. I noticed an unusual amount of condensation in the air and sticking to the walls. So, thinking nothing of it I just wiped down the walls as the condensation formed. Well right after Christmas my mother went out of country on a three week trip and asked me to look after her house since there had been some suspicious occurrences there at that time. So I spent most of the night there each night during that time but I left my heaters on at home because my kitten was still there and I didn’t want her to freeze. Also I took all my showers there during that time period. So when my mom gets back I go home and I start to notice mold around the house.
At first I just wipe it off and don’t think too much about it, I figure it is just because I was gone for so long. Well the problem VERY quickly spreads around my bedroom and bedroom closet area and it becomes apparent that there is a real problem. So I called my landlord and they fixed it in a couple of days ( I think, they didn’t check in the walls or anything, they just painted over it) but now he is trying to stick me with the painting bills. He says that I caused the mold in a letter he had the painters give me when they were leaving, and listed some reasons that are completely false. He lists
1. Not keeping the house warm enough
2. Having furniture too close to walls
3. Taking showers with fan off and improper ventilation
4. Over stuffing closet
5. And ammonia from pet odor from cat box
Well, when he came over he was sweating and that is the normal temperature we keep the house at because my girlfriend has poor circulation. Where else do you put beds and dressers besides near the wall, nothing was touching the wall and there was about an inch or two of clearance for everything. The bathroom fan has been broken and I told him so when I first moved in five months ago, also I take cold showers to combat the apartment heat and we both open windows when we shower. Even more, we weren’t taking any showers there while at my mom’s house. He never saw how we kept our closet normally, he just saw our living room when we had to pull all our clothes out from all our dressers, even the ones that aren’t in the closet because they were all wet. The cat box was a little dirty when he came over because for the last few days we’d been gutting our room and closet to save as much as we could from the mold and hadn’t cleaned it. But it still was not bad and he lists on the letter “eye burning ammonia from pet odor.” Also, because the carpet in the closet got wet from all the moisture and he could smell the cat box he is trying to charge me to replace all the carpet and padding in the apartment.
I don’t think the mold is my fault at all and a handyman I know came over and said the cause was likely from an faulty AC unit that was improperly installed letting cold air and moisture into the bedroom through the bedroom window. He also noted that he could feel drafts in the kitchen and said that we likely had an insulation problem. The mold caused all sorts of health problems from nausea to coughing blood and ruined a lot of my things, some which were family heirlooms. Is there any way to keep him from spending all my deposit on something that wasn’t my fault and maybe even make him reimburse me for everything I’ve had to dispose of? I took extensive pictures of the mold and still have some of the furniture there (I’ve been having to stay over at other people’s houses to avoid further health problems).

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I mean, he’s eight years old and whilst it can be argued that IAMs isn’t the greatest food going, he’s been on it since he was younger, and he likes it.
Isn’t it best to stick to something I know he likes, to avoid possible problems like allergies, refusing to eat etc. etc.?
He’s eight years old, an indoor/outdoor cat, and has no health problems except a little tarter on the teeth that is causing only cosmetic problems, nothing medical yet.

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