Kristen Van Gilse (Organimama)

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · How One Mom Beat a Hidden Mold Infestation—Step by Step! | @the.organimama · 16 Jan 2026 podcast

And so the first one that we found that didn't have visible signs, we walked through it, we liked it, we put in an offer, and we had a clause in there that allowed us to back out.

And the owners seemed not bothered by that.

We thought maybe they would push back on it.

But I think because they also probably knew nothing about mold and had never seen mold in their home, they were like, oh, mold testing?

I'm sure it's fine.

Well, we did a mold test on the home and it came back with a huge hit for black mold.

So it must have been either in the attic or behind the walls somewhere.

And so we told them, hey, the mold test came back positive.

We need to back out.

And they were not happy about it.

And we had a little bit of a battle with them of like, no, this is our right.

We put it in the contract.

But ultimately, we were able to back out.

I really recommend, we worked with our mold consultant during that whole process, and it really is a great idea to have somebody, again, on your team who can help you think through red flags of a home.

Even when you're just looking on Zillow at a listing or Redfin, there are things you can look at in the photos that can help you think through if this home has a lot of potential for water damage.

If it's a home that has a crawl space and that's listed on Zillow, we wouldn't even go look at it.

And also if it had venting that ran through the bottom of the main floor.

So if it was like a home on a slab or a home on a crawl space and the air vents were on the floor of the main level and not the walls or the ceiling, we actually wouldn't go look at it because ducting that runs through the floor is oftentimes more likely to be pulling in outside humid air and potentially having mold problems.

So we would only consider homes that had like air vents or ducting that ran through the walls or the ceiling.

I hope you know that.

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