10/07/2026
When our lawyer dropped us less than a month before the statute of limitations expired, I did not handle it well.
I was angry, overwhelmed and three weeks away from major spine surgery. After almost a year of representation, I was suddenly on my own.
By that point we had already spent around $80,000 dealing with the damage to our home. That included remediation, rebuilding, rerouting HVAC ductwork, moving out and everything else it took to make the house livable again.
That $80,000 does not include a single medical bill.
Then I started calling attorneys and learning that fighting this case could require another $150,000 in legal fees and expert costs.
I still cannot wrap my head around that.
Whether anyone wants to debate mold illness or not, the damage to our home was real. 80 freaking thousand dollars real! We had standing water in our vents. We opened walls and found black mold covering drywall. We had receipts, remediation records, photos, documents and the company’s own written acknowledgment that there had been problems with the installation.
And somehow, after all of that, the burden was still on us to come up with another six figures just to fight over who should be responsible.
So I filed the lawsuit myself.
That was six months ago.
Now I’m racing against another deadline. In the video I had 23 days left to officially notify them they’re being sued or risk losing the entire case.
And that clock is still ticking.