Selling a House With Mold in Fort Worth: What Texas Law Requires
By Steven Hoeke, Breaking Down Fast-Sale Options for Texas Sellers
(House Buyers Texas)
Selling a house with mold in Texas is a paperwork question before it is a price question. The mold is there or it is not. What decides how the sale goes is what you knew, what you wrote on the disclosure form, and whether a remediation company ever handed you a certificate. I buy houses in the condition they are in, Fort Worth included, and mold comes up more often than sellers expect. This post walks through what the Texas statutes actually say, read this morning on the Legislature's own site, and what I see happen when an owner has to choose between fixing it and selling it as it stands. Does the Texas seller's disclosure notice ask about mold? Not by name. Property Code Section 5.008 sets out the Seller's Disclosure Notice that a seller of "residential real property comprising not mo...
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