{"id":9896,"date":"2009-09-29T08:31:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T15:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9896"},"modified":"2009-09-29T08:31:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T15:31:59","slug":"world-health-organization-lowers-the-safe-breathing-radon-gas-level-further-complicating-real-estate-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9896\/world-health-organization-lowers-the-safe-breathing-radon-gas-level-further-complicating-real-estate-transactions\/","title":{"rendered":"World Health Organization lowers the safe breathing radon gas level: further complicating Real Estate transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"

New standards released by the World Health Organization<\/strong> (WHO) on September 23, 2009 have taken a huge stance on the odorless cancer causing, radon gas<\/strong>.\u00a0 The World Health Organization has taken the already safe4.0 pCi\/L and reduced the safe breathing gas level down to 2.7 pCi\/!\u00a0 Who cares, right?\u00a0 Well, I care especially living the Midwest where we have basements.\u00a0 Basements are a wonderful source for radon gas leaking into the home through cracks in the basement floor.<\/p>\n

You’re writing an offer to purchase with a customer and it’s determined for the safety of the family you’ll go ahead with a radon gas test.\u00a0 Typically radon gas tests start out at $125 up till about $175 in the Wisconsin market.\u00a0 The home inspector you’ve hired happens to also tests for radon gas so he kills two birds with one stone.\u00a0 The home inspector hands over his findings; the report states the average level of radon gas in the basement is 3.2pCi\/L.\u00a0 Perfect were all set to go!\u00a0 Actually we are not.\u00a0 The buying side of the transaction states the NEW<\/strong> industry standard is now 2.7pCi\/L according to the World Health Organization!\u00a0 The Selling side states, the World Health Organization does not over-ride<\/span> the Environmental Protection Agency’s safe operating level of 4.0pCi\/L.<\/p>\n

The Realtor now has a problem that needs to solved between buyer and seller in order to get a commission.\u00a0 Who is correct is this matter; buyer or seller?\u00a0 Remember…RADON kills…right?<\/p>\n

The National Association of REALTORS has advised the EPA standard is still operative or law. The World Health Organization’s suggested standard has no legal or regulatory status as a binding authority.<\/p>\n

READERS!\u00a0 IT’S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND —><\/span> As industry professionals we need to draft accurate contracts without complicating our transactions.\u00a0 Simple and Effective are the two words that immediately come to mind.\u00a0 Remember to specify in your contracts what level of radon is acceptable before mitigation is required.\u00a0\u00a0 Just because we know the EPA standards legally apply, does not mean the buyer uses the EPA standard even though its law.<\/p>\n

Below I plagiarized a statistical graph from the EPA.gov website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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New standards released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on September 23, 2009 have taken a huge stance on the odorless cancer causing, radon gas.\u00a0 The World Health Organization has taken the already safe4.0 pCi\/L and reduced the safe breathing gas level down to 2.7 pCi\/!\u00a0 Who cares, right?\u00a0 Well, I care especially living the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3470,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3470\/black-pearl-from-starpower-buy-gas\/","url_meta":{"origin":9896,"position":0},"title":"Black Pearl from StarPower: Buy gas","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"No kidding. 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