I was a chemical engineer who bought the CD's and then took the lab at the very end of '06.

Those chemicals are obviously a deadly serious hazard & I would rather put my life & health in my own hands rather than a corporation that is only concerned with getting it clean enough to be able to legally sign off on it.

Midland doesn't look like much but it is home to Dow Chemical.

If you need a mortgage loan, look up Shawn Huss with Chemical Bank.

There are many solutions that you can do yourself.There are some that you never want to do yourself.The EPA guidance on mold issues is here:  http://epa.gov/mold/moldguide.htmlThe digital copy of the same information is here: http://epa.gov/mold/pdfs/moldguide.pdfThis document does not help you estimate costs for repairs, but does help you see through the "smoke screen" that many remediation companies will put up when talking about mold in homes.In spite of what John D. recommended in his response above, the use of a chemical or biocide that kills organisms such as mold (chlorine bleach, for example) is not recommended as a routine practice during mold cleanup.  

We had a property that had some mold on the basement walls and a company went at it with scrub brushes and mold killing chemicals.

I work full time as a chemical engineer and have become very interested in real estate.

They were manufacturing it in the garage with oxygen and acetylene tanks and dozens of other flammable chemicals.

"synthetic leverage").

My day job is a power engineer for a chemical manufacturing company, but in the evening I read about real estate.