CINCINNATI (Rich Jaffe) A worried family finds out they were apparently sick because they had been living in a moldinfested home for the past two years!

Mold issues in a home can range from just causing sniffles to lifethreatening toxic battles with black mold. Once the problem was diagnosed, the question becomes what do people or their landlord do about it?

Inside one of the Forest Ridge Townhouses, a Section 8 property meaning it costs tax payers nearly $900 a month in rent, there was a report from a professional mold inspector done that showed the mold level inside the home was so serious, the family inside needed to get out...Immediately. Kirnesha Ellington and her family moved into their townhouse two years previous. The floods in the basement started shortly after that.

Local 12 News found building inspection reports and complaints on the unit that went back for years. All five members of the family showed the same symptoms.

Kirnesha explained, "Cough, sneezing, wheezing; my son coughs through the night. My daughter's the same way. She's wheezing as well."

Kirnesha contacted a mold inspection expert and when the results came in they knew why they'd all been sick. Brett Albert, the inspector, found a mold spore level in the basement three times the point where professional remediation was required.

His report said, "There should be no one living in this house, at this time. The occupants need to leave immediately."

Albert from 12 Stones Mold Cleaning told Local 12, "On a scale of 1 to 10, they're an 8. They need to get out of that house until it gets cleaned up, it's a simple procedure. One to two days we can have the mold out of that house."

Kirnesha's boyfriend, Jermaine Baker, showed Local 12 where the water poured in. Albert's inspection showed major contamination where beams hit the concrete. No doubt a crack outside that allowed water to leak in and run down the wooden door frame. The water has previously soaked the carpet there and probably the wall board. The spores have been spread throughout the home. The furniture, even the clothing, all of which needed to be professionally cleaned.

Local 12 News went to the management office. Speaking with one of the resident managers, he said they'd take a look at the issues. The issue was the family clearly needed to be out of the house sooner than later. Local 12 reached out to contacts at the Housing Authority and they're looking at issuing an emergency voucher that would allow them to move temporarily.

Will the landlord do the right thing and really fix the problem as well as pay for cleaning the family's personal property? Local 12 will stay with the story and bring updates as they become available.

Albert, the mold expert, said the easiest solution for keeping mold out of a home is to keep the humidity at 50 percent. He said above that, mold will grow but below that it can't.

Local 12 reached out to the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority. They handle the Section 8 Voucher Program that pays for the townhouse. They contacted the owner and he agreed to temporarily house Kernisha and her family elsewhere. The family is also in a position where they'll be able to move.

CMHA gave the owner 30 days to fix the problems in the townhouse.