Georgia Homeowner Faces Mold Threat From Next-Door Vacant Foreclosure

In Cobb County, Georgia, WXIA-TV Channel 11 reports:

• What to do? You've been flooded. You've cleaned up and now your home is threatened by mold and mildew from an abandoned foreclosed property. We are starting to hear the complaints. Sharon LaNata of Austell has a story to tell. Her flooded house shares a wall with an abandoned foreclosed property next door.

• FEMA couldn't help because it can only help individual homeowners living in a flooded property. Sharon contacted her county. Cobb County Environmental Services officials contacted the property management company. If nothing is done court action could be taken but that can take a long time and the mold from the neighboring rotting property could spread and hamper all cleanup efforts. It's an emergency.

For the story, see Foreclosed Flood Properties Hamper Clean Up.