Need help. Please let me know your thoughts.

[MarkL1561]

I am having trouble with mold in my apartment. My snakes are in the living room. There is no mold in the room my snakes are in. The place where mold does exist is in a room as far from my enclosures as possible. You have to walk around the hall past the kitchen and down the hall again to get to the spare bedroom. The humidity in my enclosures are 50 to 70%. The room they are in is at 15 to 20 percent. The room with mold is at 30 to 35. The apartment is trying to blame my enclosures for the mold issues in the room not associated with them. They have requested I relocate them by the 31st of this month. I agreed to move out on the 31st and be done with them. They say I have to give a 30 day notice on 9/1/2019 to get out of the lease with a 750 fee on top of paying another months rent when they are requesting me to get my animals out by 8/31.

Can my enclosures be causing this or am I correct that they are trying to cover up a preexisting condition?

Is it legal what they are trying to do?

Should I just hire a lawyer?

Enclosures are typically pretty self contained. You’d have to have massive amounts of mold in your enclosures for an extended period of time for it to spread and become established within the apartment. Houses/apartments can commonly get mold without enclosures or animals of any kind. Definitely seems like they’re trying to dodge responsibility and put all fault on you. A lawyer might be a good investment. Sounds like a giant pain, good luck!


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