What are the basic health concerns about mold and mildew?

How can I eliminate health threatening mold from a house?

• A house my parents a looking at buying has alot of mold in the downstairs living area which I will be living in with my boyfriend. Its not drastic, but it is obvious. You can see it on the walls and apparently when the old women (previous tenants mother) lived down there when she went to get a drink, a few specs of mold would be in the bottom of the glass. Although it wasn't in any of the cupboards so this concerns me that maybe the mold is airborne. My dad works on properties alot as a surveyor and draftsman and he had alot of professional suggestions on what we could do stop the mold returning once we got rid of it, like installing vents in the walls, painting the walls with mold protected paint, cleaning the drainage etc etc. But we are having trouble thinking of what we could do to get rid of it. I'm personally asking this as I will be living down there and I do not want my health or my boyfriends to be at risk. I am hoping there is a way to eliminate the current mold that exists there and also finding out how severe it is and if it can easily return on its own in a few months time.

• Answer:

  you will have to consider the spores. the spores are invisible and travel in the air. they will be everywhere and on everything. they are just as toxic as the mold source