[sharktrager]

You clearly don't have the molds that these homes have.

These molds can, in fact, cover the better part of a home. Some Texas homeowners have come home to a house filled with black mold after less than a week away. This severe mold damage can take tens of thousands of dollars to repair. And, yes, some molds will make people sick.

[shhrubbery!]

I didn't say all molds were benign. (See post 22 above yours.)

I don't know what kind of molds you have in Texas, but here in the humid northeast/mid-Atlantic area, pretty much all houses are susceptible to mold, as poster #20 notes. I believe most of the molds you find here are completely benign in the doses most people get.

Where you run into trouble with toxic molds, I suspect, is in these highly insulated, air-tight houses built since the oil crisis in the '70s (and in older houses remodeled to be "energy-efficient.")

Older houses that leak air like a sieve are healthier, if less energy-efficient.