JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Action News is taking action for several apartment complexes in the process of suing over mold complaints.
Neighbors living at Willow Lakes and Oakwood Villas apartments in Arlington join four other complexes in the suit.
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Neighbors at Oakwood Villas said management told them it's up to them to clean the mold.
Action News Law and Safety Expert Dale Carson said it can fall on residents to clean mold in places such as surfaces, bu the landlord must cover the cost of eliminating mold in structural places such as sheet rock.
Neighbors said they've encountered both and face health issues because of it.
"It is the landlords responsibility to make the property habitable for the individual tenants," Carson said.
More people are joining this federal lawsuit against six local apartment complexes, Housing and Urban Development and Veterans Affairs.
We're told the lawsuit will be filed in about a month.
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