Damp problem
I live in an apartment and I mostly love it, it’s sunny, it’s quiet, it’s affordable, and I don’t really want to move, BUT:
it gets mold along the windows and glass no matter what I do. They did a landlord special before I moved in, everything painted over with primer, ok pretty standard, and mold control is outlined as my responsibility in the lease so I stay up on cleaning it, and haven’t complained about it. They haven’t been very responsive to other issues (took a year to fix the package locker when someone broke in, it was fixed two months and then someone broke in again and it’s stayed like that; we have an ongoing DV situation that escalates periodically that they can’t do much about legally but I don’t think they’ve even tried, &c), so I don’t have high hopes about their responsiveness with this and I don’t want to be charged for mold damage when I have been doing my best to keep it under control.
Then in the last year there’s been a mild persistent smell of damp that in the last four months has increased to rank mildew and sometimes rot. I got air filters that I run constantly to deodorize, but no dice. There’s a coating of white powdery mold on stuff in my closet I don’t use often (suitcase, less comfortable shoes) and in a desperate attempt to get rid of the smell I got three bags of damp rid which filled IMMEDIATELY.
This feels like something structural that’s beyond my ability to address with cleaning and keeping the environment dry.
Anyone have experience with a situation like this, is there anything I can do besides move, or should I give in and move?