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Tenant Mold Prevention Education In South Jersey

Nobody wants to live in a moldy environment. As a property manager in the South Jersey area, it is your responsibility to ensure that your tenants have a safe, sanitary space to inhabit. However, you can’t control everything that goes on in every part of the building. Educate your tenants about tenant mold prevention. This way they can help in eliminating some of these potential mold issues within the building.

Key Elements In Tenant Mold Prevention Education

Many tenants (and people in general) don’t know the first thing about mold prevention. It is imperative that everyone, not just tenants, understand how to prevent mold in a rental home. They will be grateful that you educated them, and they will continue to use that knowledge you gave them wherever they may move to. A few key elements in tenant mold prevention include:

Ensuring a home has proper ventilation is key when preventing mold. This is the number one thing you should be teaching during tenant mold prevention. While it is important to ensure that all of the home is properly ventilated, some areas need more ventilation than others. Make sure that you are educating your tenants of these specific areas. Kitchens and bathrooms are the areas that need ventilation the most. Showering and cooking produce a lot of heat and moisture, which creates excess humidity. Ensure that your tenants are aware of proper ventilation techniques that they can employ. Besides the obvious use of vents and fans, it can be as simple as opening a window while showering, cooking, or running the dishwasher.

Keeping humidity levels as low as possible. Indoor humidity levels should never exceed 50%. The ideal level for indoor humidity is between 35% and 50% relative humidity. Keeping the air conditioner running, especially during the summer months, can help keep indoor humidity levels low. If a building is particularly muggy, you may want to suggest the use of a dehumidifier to your tenants so they can keep a closer eye on those indoor humidity levels.

Preventing and remediating condensation is another simple tip you can use while educating about tenant mold prevention. Tenants can reduce the potential for condensation by adding insulation in areas that experience a lot of condensation. To make it even easier, you can advise tenants to simply wipe away accumulated condensation when they notice it.

Another easy technique to suggest during tenant mold prevention education is to immediately wipe up any spills that may occur. Make sure that tenants are aware of the damage that these spills could potentially cause. Larger spills such as an overflowing bathtub or toilet, especially, can cause a lot of damage. It is much easier to educate tenants to do their best to prevent and avoid mold than it is to get rid of it.  If a building experience flooding, the same rule applies. Cleaning up and drying out the building quickly and thoroughly after the flood occurs is imperative. If you are concerned that the damage is too severe, don’t hesitate to reach out to a professional mold remediation company to assess the damage.

Tenants Expressing Concerns About Mold

As previously mentioned, the average tenant generally doesn’t know a whole lot about mold and mold prevention. Some tenants may even report concerns of pre-existing mold in their home. Some tenants may be uneducated about mold, or may even be exaggerating the issue. However, you should always take these reports seriously as their property manager. You are the owner of the building after all, and you want your tenants to be happy. When tenants report mold or other maintenance issues, it is your responsibility to investigate these reports. You must not only assess the issues, but ultimately straighten them out. While not all tenant mold reports are valid, no report should be ignored. You may even want to set up a professional mold inspection with a company in your South Jersey area.

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BAGHDAD | Protests in southern Iraq to demand better services, jobs

BAGHDAD — Iraqis demanding better public services and jobs took to the streets for the sixth day on Sunday in the southern oil-rich province of Basra, as authorities put security forces on high alert and blocked the internet in the country’s Shiite heartland.

The protests come at a sensitive time as Iraq awaitis the final results of a partial recount of the ballots from May’s national elections before a new government can be formed. The elections, the fourth since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled ruler Saddam Hussein, saw the lowest turnout in 15 years and were marred with allegations of fraud and irregularities.

Thousands of protesters gathered outside the local government building and closed the roads leading to major oil fields north and west of Basra city of, activist Laith Hussein told The Associated Press by phone.

Security forces guarding the local government building opened fire, causing some protesters to disperse, he added.

Elsewhere in Basra, protesters forced authorities to close the vital Um Qasr port on the Persian Gulf, planning to march to the border crossings with Kuwait and Iran, he added.

The two main border crossings — Safwan with Kuwait and Shalamcheh with Iran — have been closed to both passengers and goods, a senior official with the Border Crossings Directorate told the AP. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government regulations.

He could not confirm if there were fatalities from either incident. Health and police officials were not immediately available to comment.

Around noon on Sunday, Basra anti-riot police fired water cannons and tear gas to disperse the protesters, said Sadiq Saleh, one of the demonstrators.

“I will not leave my place here until I get all my rights,” said the 35-year-old who has been out of work for the past three years. “The government lies to us, they always give us such promises and we get nothing.”

There were also similar protests on Saturday in Baghdad. Hundreds poured into Baghdad’s Tahrir Square and the eastern Shiite district of Sadr City. Some protesters set tires on fire and tried to break into the Badr Organization’s office in Sadr City, prompting guards to open fire. No casualties were reported.

Citing security concerns, Kuwait Airways, the Royal Jordanian and Iran’s Aviation Authority suspended their flights to Iraq’s second busiest airport in Najaf. Flights to other Iraqi airports have not been affected. The United Arab Emirates’ FlyDubai cancelled Saturday’s flights to Najaf, saying it will suspend them until July 22.

In a bid to contain the protests, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi convened a six-minister committee headed by the oil minister, Jabar Ali al-Luaibi. The committee promised jobs for those living in the areas around the oil fields and announced allocations for urgent projects, mainly for water provision.

On Friday, al-Abadi flew to Basra from the NATO summit in Brussels to try to diffuse the unrest. He also asked the state-run Basra Oil Company to provide more jobs to locals and announced urgent allocations.

But that didn’t appear to assuage the protesters.

“These announcements are just anesthetization to the residents of Basra,” Hussein, the activist, said. “Every year, they make the same promises, and nothing happens on the ground.”

The only solution is “to replace the current faces that represent the parties that failed to develop Basra by new faces from new political parties from Basra itself,” he added.

Like other locals, Hussein demanded that Baghdad empower the new, local Basra government.

The demonstrations were given a boost after a representative of the Shiite community’s spiritual leader, the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, offered his solidarity with the protesters during Friday’s prayer sermon, but called for peaceful demonstrations.

Basra is Iraq’s second-largest province and home to about 70 percent of the country’s proven oil reserves of 153.1 billion barrels.

It is located on the Persian Gulf bordering Kuwait and Iran, and is Iraq’s only hub these days for all oil exports to the international market.