>> Anchor: MOLD DANGER.
RENTAL HOME RIDDLED WITH T A
TENANT THAT SAID HE IS STRAPPED.
HE CANNOT LIVE IN THIS DANGEROUS
RENTAL AND LANDLORD IS DEMANDING
CASH.
>> THIS TENANT HAS NOT BEEN
TREATED FAIRLY.
THIS TENANT HAS BEEN TREATED
HORRIBLY.
RESPONSIBLE.
>> Anchor: TONIGHT HELP ME
HANK TRACKS DOWN THE OWNER OF
THAT RENTAL HOME.
>> Anchor: ALSO WORKS TO GET
HELP FOR THE TENANT NOW
SUFFERING SERIOUS HEALTH
PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF THE MOLD.
>> MENTAL MOMENT NIGHTMARE AND
PROPERTY OWNER HARD TO TRACK
DOWN UNTIL WE WERE INVOLVED.
I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS GUY
AND HE KNOWS IT.
ANTOINE IS OWNER OF THIS RENTAL
HOME IN CLAWSON.
EXCHANGE.
INDUSTRYMAN.
>> ACCORDING TO TEST RESULTS I
RECENTLY GOT.
HE SAID THAT THIS IS HIGHLY
TOXIC.
>> Reporter: SEAN AND FATHER
RENT THIS HOME ON TACOMA IN
CLAWSON.
SICK.
>> CONGESTIVE.
>> Reporter: SEAN NOTICED WHAT
HE THOUGHT WAS BLACK MOLD BEHIND
THE BATHROOM VANITY.
AWAY.
>> WHAT HAVE THEY DONE?
>> EXCUSES.
>> Reporter: SEAN HIRED A MOLD
EXPERT TO TEST RENTAL.
RESULTS SHOCKING.
HIGH LEVELS OF DANGEROUS BLACK
MOLD IN SEVERAL PARTS OF THE
HOME.
>> Reporter: WERE THEY TRYING
>> NO.
>> Reporter: AFTER WE AIRED
THIS VICE PRESIDENT AND
CONTACTED PROPERTY MANAGER ON
THE PHONE WE WERE TOLD THIS
PROBLEM WOULD BE FIXED.
THE PROPERTY MANAGER PAID FOR
HOTEL.
HIRED A CREW TO CLEAN MOLD.
THE PROBLEM, WHEN SEAN MOVED
BACK IN SYMPTOMS GOT WORSE.
NEW MOLD TEST BY INDEPENDENT
EXPERT REVEALED THE MOLD LEVELS
WERE NOW OFF THE CHARTS T GOT SO
BAD THAT CITY MOVED IN.
DANGER.
SEAN HAD TO MOVE.
CONTAMINATED.
BUT GET THIS.
HIS LANDLORD WAS STILL DEMANDING
ROUGHLY $2000 IN RENT.
PAYMENT FOR THE MONTHS WHEN SEAN
WAS LIVING IN THE TOXIC RENTAL.
>> IF THEY HAVE DETERMINED, THEY
CAN DETERMINE THAT THE PROPERTY
THAT WAS RENTED IS NOT HABITABLE
OR SUITABLE.
THEN THEY ARE NOT UNDER AN
OBLIGATION TO PAY THE RENT.
>> Reporter: NEIL ROCKHEIME IS
LEGAL FOUR EXPERT.
>> TENANT IS NOT LEFT WITHOUT
RIGHTS IN THIS CASE.
>> Reporter: YET SEAN WAS
BEING PRESSURED TO PAY UP.
I WENT TO FIND THE OWNER.
THIS GUY.
AN 21.
HE IGNORED MY CALLS.
THOUGHT ON THIS DAY HE WOULD
WALK RIGHT BY ME.
HAPPEN.
>> WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
>> MOLD.
>> WHAT MOLD?
>> YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF THIS.
>> MY UNDERSTANDING THERE WAS A
SITUATION.
>> Reporter: ANTOINE WAS OUT
WERE REVEALED.
HE WAS NOT AWARE HOW BIG THE
PROBLEM HAD BECOME.
HE ALSO APPARENTLY WAS NOT AWARE
HIS HOME WAS A DANGER.
BIG NOTE.
>> WHEN?
>> TWO WEEKS AGO.
>> NOW TIME TO GIVE SEAN
FOR.
PHONE.
>> I HAVE TO TALK TO THE TENANT.
TO UNDERSTAND.
>> LET'S CALL HIM RIGHT NOW.
>> I HAVE A LUNCH MEETING.
>> THIS IS IMPORTANT.
>> LET'S TAKE CARE OF IT.
>> OUR SYMPTOMS ARE GETTING
WORSE.
>> AS OF RIGHT NOW HE IS TOLD BY
RENT.
NOTICE.
I WILL LOOK INTO, THAT THAT'S
ONE THING I WAS NOT AWARE OF.
THE SECOND PIECE OF IT, IS
OBVIOUSLY FOR TIME YOU CANNOT
LIVE IN THE HOUSE.
FOR THESE REASONS YOU SHOULD NOT
BE CHARGED RENT FOR THAT.
HORRIBLY.
SOMEBODY NEEDS TO BE HELD
IT IS NOT FAIR.
>> Reporter: REMEMBER IF YOU
ARE A TENANT LIKE SEAN AND IN A
RIGHTS.
I SHOULD TELL THAT YOU SEAN WILL
LIVING IN THAT DANGEROUS HOME.