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There is always one. Did you even take the time to go to Flickr.com to view the photos before you started bashing. Go read what the boro inspector said about "damage to structural elements of the floor". My bedroom floor is leaning to one side and is unstable. While just walking thru the room my entertainment stand rocked back and forth and my 27 inch tube TV fell off from 5 feet high and smashed to the floor. What if that had been a 150 gallon fish tank and two little kids were playing and jumping up and down and the fish tank fell on them. That's a serious, legitimate problem.......use your head!

Thanks for all the advice guys. I think I'll reach out to the governor's office and the channel 12 NJ news team, they have an investigator who covers stories like mine. The management company has several apartment complexes thru out the state so if he airs it on TV the repairs will be made real quick.

First of all, I already went to see a doctor and showed him the photos. He said that the black mold could definitely be causing the sinus infections and polyps. He said that he couldn't comment on the white powder because he doesn't know the chemical makeup. I have an appointment to see him again, this time I'm going to see if he can give me something in writing as to mold being a cause. Second, I'm surprised that your answers are to just move out. That's one of the reasons that America is so screwed up, everyone has this attitude of "Just let it go, don't fight it". Once you let something go, there's no turning back, it just becomes the new norm. I plan on moving out, right after they fix everything. Why should I just leave it for the next tenants to deal with, suppose they have young children, it's not fair to them. I'm really disappointed that no one had anything to say about the state inspector who refuses to do an inspection. I guess my next step will be to get the press involved and place a call to call the NJ governor's office to find out why this person is being paid to hold the position of state inspector if he's not willing to do his job.

I don't think it's cellulose, I have cellulose falling down from my kitchen soffit and it is more brown in color and is a different texture. This stuff is more of a fibrous, whitish grey color with little shinny particles mixed in. What ever it is it's causing me breathing problems and nasal polyps. There is standing water down there that is causing condensation to build up in the insulation which then gets very heavy and pulls down the supporting plastic. I also have black mold growing inside my apartment and wet, cracked support beams which is causing my floors to lean to one side. I called the Boro Inspector who sent the management company a letter asking them to make repairs, but they just ignored him. He says that he can't force the repairs because it's out of his jurisdiction because the building has more than 4 units. I also took them to court and received a judgement because they did not show up. I called the NJ State Housing Inspector, but he refused to come out and do an inspection. He said, "I'm not coming there to do an inspection, what's their number, I'll call them". This was back in the 1st week of August and here I am in the middle of winter freezing because of all the missing insulation. Here are photos of everything that is going on. https://www.flickr.com/photos/8377217@N ... 827472191/ Any ideas on who I should call next?

The apartment complex was built in 1964.

I have this powdered insulation between the floor joists of an apartment that I'm renting. The plastic that was holding it up has ripped down and it's now all over the floor. This crawlspace is vented and the wind is blowing it all around. I now have a layer of fine white powder dust on everything. I guess it's coming up into my apartment thru cracks in the floor and around all the copper heating pipe gaps. My question is: What the hell is this made of? I've googled powder insulation photos and none of them match what I have. I've included a link for the full size photo so you can get a real close look at it. In the bottom right hand corner, click on the 3 dots and then original size, and then click on photo with cursor to view full size. www.dropbox.com/s/c60yvjegsv8q6jy/23.jpg?dl=0 Could this be asbestos?