Hello,

We are writing to you because we need assistance with finding work we can do in exchange for housing and utilities. It is imperative that we leave the Midwest area ASAP, our story is below. We are a family of 5 suffering from what is called, "Sick Building Syndrome". Below you will find our story, it tells what we have gone through the last 6 years, and what we need to do in order to begin to heal. At the end of our story is a few personal references too.

We both are partially disabled, but we are very talented and there are many things that we can do on a part time basis, especially as a family unit. We are web designers and graphic artists, and could do any needed graphic, or web design work you may need done. Dan is an awesome artist, and does beautiful air brush work. We are talented in many areas, and even though we both suffer from back problems, we are not afraid of hard work, and will do all we can in order to provide for our family. Besides the work listed above, we could do mowing, edging, picking up trash, emptying trash cans, or any number of odd jobs that need done in a campground / RV park, cabin resort, etc. We are willing to do whatever needs to be done that we can physically do in exchange for housing and utilities. We do not need anything very big, a small cabin would be fine as long as it sleeps 5 and has kitchen amenities. We are prepared and ready to leave Indiana as early as mid May, so we will be available for any openings after that time.

We do have a small Internet business, which we will continue to work, so we would need access to the Internet, other than that, we will go where needed.

This is a true story, my family and I honestly lived through this ordeal for 5 years before we even knew what was happening to us. Even though we are no longer in the moldy house, we still suffer daily from the effects of the mold that we lived with in that house for so long. We spent all those years there with the mold, and never knew it was there because it was growing within the walls, and under the floor in the crawl space. The reason it was growing was because the exterior of the house was not taken care of properly. It was a brick house, and over the years the mortar had chipped away, and years of rain getting into the open spaces between the bricks, started growing toxic molds in all sorts of pretty colors throughout the walls. Another problem which helped the mold to get started and growing, was the fact that there had been termites that did major damage to the foundation beams of the house.

We were only renters of that farm house, the owner acquired it through his father's estate and really lost very little because he had just cut a deal with a developer who is putting in sub divisions all over the 194 acres he owns. He made good money, plus got to continue to farm the land for two years after the deal. Us on the other hand, we lost everything we owned, clothes, furniture, toys, years and years of memories that can never be replaced. Dan bought me a stuffed animal for every birthday, Christmas, Valentine and Easter, since we got together 13 years ago. All of those are gone now, they all had to be thrown in the trash! We can get over all of that and move on, but what we lost that we will never get over, or get back 100%, is our health. We are now so allergic to so many things, (pollens, plants, molds, dust, chemicals, medications, etc.), that daily life is often times very painful and unbearable, and continues to get worse with each day. Our children are not as bad as Dan and I, but they have problems if they get around any mold, or anything they are allergic to. For Dan and I it is a bit different. I have pain daily all throughout my body. I have pain that goes from my back, around into my ribs, and into my chest. This pain last for days with no relief at all, and the pain in my chest is so bad, it feels like I am having a heart attack! I have pain throughout my legs and feet, my arms, shoulders, and hands. I love working in the theatre, but I cannot even do that anymore. Last time I went to work on costumes, and after only two hours I was in so much pain, I could hardly stand it. I have knots on my fingers that seem to be growing from the knuckle and when I bend my fingers, or bump the knots, they hurt something awful. I have trouble breathing all the time, as does Dan. The mold did a lot of damage to my lungs, and Dan's too. Dan also has COPD, and the children as well as Dan and I, all now have asthma.

Here is a letter that my husband recently wrote to one of his friends about our situation;

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As you can see we have to leave the Midwest. Our disabilities make it hard to work a full time job, but we are talented and crafty, and can do odd jobs here and there. We would gladly work in a campground or RV park, as long as we could get a cabin, that would be such an enormous help to us right now.

We so greatly appreciate you reading our story, and we hope to hear from you soon.

Personal references:

Our Pastor from Hope's Point Baptist Church where
we are members in good standing;

Edwin Mohr
Shelbyville, IN

Hello,

We are writing to you because we desperately need assistance in getting an RV or travel trailer. We are a family of 5 suffering from what is called, "Sick Building Syndrome". Below you will find our story, it tells what we have gone through the last 6 years, and what we need to do in order to begin to heal. At the end of our story is a few personal references. We know that the world is full of scams these days, and we want you to be able to talk to people who know us, and know our situation.

We want it known that we are not looking for any type of handout, we are only looking for a handup, we are more than willing to pay, but we have no down payment and we can only pay so much per month, and we cannot get financing, (see my husbands note below for explanation). However we could also repay with our services that we could provide to your company that would actually benefit you financially in a big way. One idea we thought of, is we could air brush an advertisement for your company on the side of the RV / trailer. My husband is an awesome artist and has his own airbrush, and we would GLADLY air brush any advertisement you would like onto the side and / or back of the RV. We would also spread the word to everyone looking for an RV, 5th wheel or TT that we meet along our journey' s, how your company is helping us out, and that if they are in the market for a new RV, they should go to you because you care about people, and your customers are #1, and you will take care of them and put them in the model of their dreams.

We feel God is leading us to travel and talk to people across the Country who need to be educated on molds and Sick Building Syndrome, so we are determined to travel and tell our story to everyone who will listen, but we need an RV, travel trailer, or something better than a tent, in order to do this, and help others before it is too late for them, as it was for us!

We are web designers and graphic artists, and would be more than happy to do any needed graphic, or web design work you may need done. We are talented in many areas that could benefit your company. Basically we could barter, our services for your RV or trailer. We do not need anything that is new, so long as it is clean and has no mold and has never had any water leaks that went unattended for any amount of time. To start us off, we do not need anything really big, only something big enough for the 5 of us, a little bit of room would be nice, (our handicapped son who is autistic likes to move around a lot), but it is not absolutely necessary if it means the difference between us being able to get an RV or not.

We also thought of a program that could be started, that would benefit others that are going through what our family has and is going through. Our story is not as rare as one might think, there are thousands of families in this Country with stories just like ours, some worse. Most of us started in the Midwest, and many of us have had to walk away from everything we owned and start over. Our family is one such family who had to do exactly that. Finding a home that is not contaminated even a little is almost impossible, and relocation to a dryer state becomes a do or die situation. Once you've lost everything, including your health, it is hard to start over, especially if you need to get away from the Midwest as we do. You have to find a home to rent that is clean, which means you need to travel to the new state and look. This is not possible for most. You also have to buy all new furniture, which also is costly and for some, done one piece at a time.

If there were a program in place that supplied families who have been affected by mold with an RV or Travel Trailer that they could comfortably live in full time, one with washer and dryer hookups in place, because most of us have severe allergies to almost everything, and cannot risk using a Laundromat because of chemicals and stuff that may have been used previously. The family could either travel the Country and enjoy life for awhile, which our family sure would enjoy after the pain we've all had to deal with for the past 4 years now. Or they could rent a space in a trailer park, or buy a cheap piece of land in NM or TX or some nice dry state, and feel safe in their clean, mold free RV / Travel Trailer, supplied so lovingly thanks to the RV company's "Safe Home For Sick Buildings Syndrome Families Program", or something like that. It would be an awesome program that could raise money to help offset the cost in so many ways. The trailers and RV's don't need to be knew either, only mold free, and clean of all allergens like dust and cigarette smoke. You could get donated RV's from folks that are upgrading and have a good clean used RV that they can afford to donate to the program instead of trade-in. Doing a program such as this would also give you a really good name and would have people WANTING to buy from YOU because of the good you are doing for others.

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This is a true story, my family and I honestly lived through this ordeal for 5 years before we even knew what was happening to us. Even though we are no longer in the moldy house, we still suffer daily from the effects of the mold that we lived with in that house for so long. We spent all those years there with the mold, and never knew it was there because it was growing within the walls, and under the floor in the crawl space. The reason it was growing was because the exterior of the house was not taken care of properly. It was a brick house, and over the years the mortar had chipped away, and years of rain getting into the open spaces between the bricks, started growing toxic molds in all sorts of pretty colors throughout the walls. Another problem which helped the mold to get started and growing, was the fact that there had been termites that did major damage to the foundation beams of the house.

We were only renters of that farm house, the owner acquired it through his father's estate and really lost very little because he had just cut a deal with a developer who is putting in sub divisions all over the 194 acres he owns. He made good money, plus got to continue to farm the land for two years after the deal. Us on the other hand, we lost everything we owned, clothes, furniture, toys, years and years of memories that can never be replaced. Dan bought me a stuffed animal for every birthday, Christmas, Valentine and Easter, since we got together 13 years ago. All of those are gone now, they all had to be thrown in the trash! We can get over all of that and move on, but what we lost that we will never get over, or get back 100%, is our health. We are now so allergic to so many things, (pollens, plants, molds, dust, chemicals, medications, etc.), that daily life is often times very painful and unbearable, and continues to get worse with each day. Our children are not as bad as Dan and I, but they have problems if they get around any mold, or anything they are allergic to. For Dan and I it is a bit different. I have pain daily all throughout my body. I have pain that goes from my back, around into my ribs, and into my chest. This pain last for days with no relief at all, and the pain in my chest is so bad, it feels like I am having a heart attack! I have pain throughout my legs and feet, my arms, shoulders, and hands. I love working in the theatre, but I cannot even do that anymore. Last time I went to work on costumes, and after only two hours I was in so much pain, I could hardly stand it. I have knots on my fingers that seem to be growing from the knuckle and when I bend my fingers, or bump the knots, they hurt something awful. I have trouble breathing all the time, as does Dan. The mold did a lot of damage to my lungs, and Dan's too. Dan also has COPD, and the children as well as Dan and I, all now have asthma.

We now live in a modular home, which was the only house we found after 6 months of looking, that did not have mold in it, unfortunately this house has a problem with the central air system, which is putting a mass amount of dust and insulation fibers into the air and making it hard for us to breath. There are leaks all throughout the air ducts causing the central system to suck air from the attic and crawl space. Unfortunately the owner has not been able to fix the problem and is convinced there is no problem, even though we have shown him the furnace filters thick with dust and pieces of insulation fibers all over it after only two weeks of use last summer. We told him the AC NEVER shuts off during the day, it would run from about noon till 10:00 PM without ever shutting off, and it still got up to 95 degrees in the house. He had the AC checked and there was nothing wrong with it, but the AC guy found leaks all under the house and said that the only way to fix the problem is to tear out all the tarping under the house and expose all the duct work and find all the leaks and disconnections and fix them. None of this seemed to matter to the owner, he duct taped a few of the ducts under the house, then refused to do anymore and said he felt he did all that could be done and would not do any more. So we cooked all summer long, with little relief, the owner never even tried to help us, or fix the problem, he only told us we would have to move because he didn't know how to fix the problem, and was not going to do anymore. We looked for another house since he was willing to let us out of our lease, but Shelbyville is so moldy, (it was a swamp at one time!), that nearly every house in this county has mold in it. We are so sensitive to mold after living with it for so many years, that any amount causes our son to have asthma attacks, and causes Dan and I horrible headaches, coughing, sneezing, shortness of breath, rashes, and horrible pains in my body, it's just really awful what we go through now that we have been sensitized to molds, and breathing in all this dust here, is just awful and choking us all the time. I'm so allergic now, that when I sweat it is like having acid poured on me, as it causes my skin to burn and turn beet red! It literally feels like I have acid on my face when this happens it burns so bad, and it happens almost every day because of my problem with the heat. We ended up not using the AC at all because it did nothing but cost money and have us breathing in a lot of dust and insulation fibers.

Lat summer was especially hard for myself and our autistic son because we have a very hard time tolerating the heat and especially the humidity. There were many days that we spent going through what felt like a heat stroke. We would get very sick with horrible headaches and vomiting. All we could do was keep cold rags on us and lay in front of a fan. It was a great relief when winter came. We had to use electric heaters for heat.

The landlord got so angry with us for continuing to ask him to fix the problem that he has given us until May first to be moved out and that date is coming fast and we have still not found a house that we can move into in our area and price range that does not have mold in it.

Personal references: