My wife and I own and manage about a dozen rental properties in Colorado.

There is a an objective way any VOC’s can be measured with a simple electronic meter from Home Depot.

A very large apartment complex near the Domain in Austin did this recently to our son, his wife and two babies only 2 and 1 years-old. They were not notified the apartment next to theirs would get the bathtub resurfaced yesterday. By evening, the noxious fumes and ammonia smell forced them to leave for obvious health reasons. Similar to the poster, the on-site manager used all the same excuses if we haven’t in the past had any problems etc…..

A good vendor will advise the landlord to use TVOC monitoring equipment to measure when the apartment is safe for re-entry AND absolutely notify anyone else in the building.

MC and other chemicals used can literally kill you. This isn’t about anyone being litigious but more about lazy and cheap landlords pinching Pennie’s while endangering tenant health.

There is an objective method for measuring air quality inside a home - use it!

Just because YOU didn’t have problems doesn’t mean that woman didn’t. She could have Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. Look it up. It’s dangerous. Lots of chemicals involved in that process. I know because I have multiple chemical sensitivities and new carpet or anything that offgasses affects me greatly. I’m had to move out of an apartment I had just moved into because of it. Very stressful and costly. Educate yourself please

Our apartment complex is resurfacing the apartment directly next to ours and our apartment is full of the associated fumes thanks to the shared vents in our “old building”. When addressing our concerns with the front office we we’re basically told that nothing could be done, they don’t notify any neighbors, and that the fumes aren’t toxic at all.

We’ve had to leave because of the fumes causing us to get sick. Our son goes to dialysis three days a week, today being a day at home. His room smelled the strongest.

The men working on the next door unit all had heavy duty ventilator masks on and the windows and doors wide open. We opened up our windows to get some fresh air but it only helped a little bit.

Is there ANYTHING we can do?? How is it legal for them to not even notify us that we might have to be out of our unit for a while? They know of our son’s condition.

I call BS on anyone who says this "is no big deal". These fumes are toxic! I had my Aunts house resurfaced and they told us to stay out of the house for 2-3 days! Yet when they did the Apt down stairs from me the fumes were so bad that when i opened my bathroom door, the smell hit me in the face like a ton of bricks. My husband started uncontrollably coughing, I instantly got a headache, and my dogs were spinning around in circles. Did it last forever? "No". But did we have the right to choose weather or not we wanted to be inside the apt? "Yes" Did anyone notify us? "No". My father has COPD and there is no way he would have survived that. The apts should have to let the other tenants know before doing anything like that. And now on top of it we are getting evicted bc we said we were going to call the housing authority.

Resurfacing is a standard practice that has been used for years. Yes it stinks for a while but does not linger in your clothing or furniture much after the initial application. It sounds to me like the woman demanding new clothing ect. is just another crook looking for her next victim.

Maintenance and repair must go on. Progress must go on. Sometimes progress is loud, smelly, dusty and definitely "inconvenient" but we are surrounded by it every day. All we can do is to try to set expectations beforehand and keep the inconvenience for our clients to a minimum. We cant allow ourselves to be walked all over though.

Asthma actually can be triggered by such fumes. Allergens are any particles the body finds foreign to itself and develops a reaction to, allergic reaction. Is possible!