Mold turned Orlando man's 'castle' into 'house of horrors'
Jean Patteson
Sentinel Staff Writer
October 4, 2009
When he moved into his lakefront dream house, Ronald Brooke was hale and hearty. One year later, he was a sick man.
"My castle ended up being a house of horrors," said Brooke, 65, founder of Brooke Enterprises, a money-management company in Orlando.
He bought the two-story house near the University of Central Florida for $245,000 in June 1997. His nightmare experience began that December, when storm water cascaded through the roof into the family room. Soon afterward, leaks were found in the upstairs shower, around several windows and behind the front and rear gutters. Brooke had the roof repaired and the rotted windowsills replaced. But a fertile breeding ground for mold had already been created in the damp, dark spaces behind the walls.
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