I'd prefer minus 5 stars. I'm a 100% Disabled Veteran, Incomplete Paraplegic. This company left me and my family broken and homeless. My Niece, her 6 year old Daughter and 10 year old Son are now living in a low income apartment where I pay her rent & utils. I still have 2 mortgages, plus the taxes utilities like water while I am homeless. My Niece and her children were living with my wife and I in our beautiful, Phoenix home until a pipe leak inside the walls May 2017. We had to evacuate due to improper handling /Black Mold, by the company the Insurance Carrier had a contract with for repairs. We thought that we were going to have to stay in a hotel for a few days or week. Next thing we knew, we became ill especially me. I almost died several times and barely clung to life for the most part of the first 5 months. Black mold is really dangerous. The Mycotoxins it releases are extremely deadly, deadlier than Sarin gas.
Armed Forces put us in a hotel, after we slept in the house with all of the poison but didn't know the dangers and weren't told. We informed them we had been forced to potty in the back yard since the bathrooms had been (remain) completely gutted.That was back in May. We ended up moving from hotel to hotel and had to deal with a lot of nonsense. What's more, the adjuster (Local guy they hired) wrote in his report that the upstairs bathroom leaked into the downstairs bathroom. It is however a single story home.
When I asked for help and advise in respect of being very ill and connecting it with the mold, they refused to offer me any information that would have been helpful in directing me how to get help or who to turn to for it. They instead played dumb and continually changed the subject, always trying to tell me as if ordering me against good judgement and as if I somehow could change the situation, but they ordered me to get busy and get someone in to the house to rebuild the bathrooms so we could return home. They knew about the Mycotoxins. They knew I was researching and struggling to find an answer to why I was suffering all of the symptoms.
As weeks passed, I discovered the company my Insurance Company authorized to do the remediation, was not planning to return to the house or do anything unless I were willing to sign a deceitful and nasty contract and when I shocked them by actually reading it and saying,"No way".
I felt I was forced to seek licensed contractors to come repair the damages. As it turned out, everyone who came got sick and some threatened to sue me. Strangely they stopped calling me in a few days after they spoke to my adjuster.
I soon began to learn that my symptoms were from tiny mycotoxins that the particular strains of mold release when threatened or disturbed. I became aware that I was suffering Mycotoxicosis and from Trichothecene. I needed help to prove it, so I hired different mold experts and an environmental Hygenist. The insurance adjuster was furious that I dare use my better judgement and proceed to investigate the matter, rather than follow their directions to hire someone to build over the mold immediately; they stopped payment of housing expenses thereby they threw us out of the hotel with no where to go and we had the small children with us. 123 degrees that day. I almost died again. Also they continually failed to pay the hotel so forced us to spend our money or be thrown out while the adjusters enjoyed holidays etc..
After the first mold expert I hired concluded the visible presence of black mold where the insurance carrier authorized remediation (idiots) had "Conducted their remediation" (Contaminated and destroyed our entire home and all it's contents), then the adjuster called the man I had hired and coerced him to provide her the report and lab results that I personally had paid for and were to be mine exclusively. Suddenly in 2 days of being on the streets with the children and no home or hotel, the adjuster calls me saying , "I'm sorry Mr. Nelson for the error and any inconvenience it caused you. If you're ready to put that behind us and move forward, we will send you back to the hotel and in a week or so we will be placing you and your family into a rental home in your neighborhood". (Sounds like they're sincere now, right? No!)
When they finally did place us in the rental house, I was sent to the hospital the first night because I became very much a reverse of my healing from the mold illness, and discovered black mold in the rental house too. I'm also out $2000 I paid to prove the mycotoxins in my house and prove the mold in the rental house. We were forced to flee the rental house in late July and the insurance adjuster stopped all ALE in August, leaving us homeless and we're still homeless November 26, 2017 without any help from these jerks at Armed Forces. It's now winter and our family is split, but we got my Niece and little ones shelter, yet my wife & I have no home. From a lovely home and nice threads to homeless in 2nd hand clothes read more