Mold Inspection in the Village of Hempstead, NY, With a Written Report
You get one written report from a licensed, independent assessor on where the mold is in your Hempstead home and what is feeding it, which both a landlord and a tenant can act on.
Mold Inspection quote in Hempstead
Tell us the town, the lowest level of the house and where the damp is showing. In Nassau that is usually enough to say whether the water is coming up from the ground or out of the house, and which licensed trade the job needs.
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Tenant or landlord: who books the Hempstead assessment
If you are a tenant, the assessment is usually the landlord's to arrange, so start with a dated written request and photos; state health guidance sends tenants to code enforcement only if the landlord does nothing. If you are the landlord, booking an independent assessment gives you a scope your remediation firm has to follow and a record that the problem was handled properly. The village reports no land in the 100 year floodplain, which points the search indoors: a roof, a riser, a unit above or a bathroom that cannot vent.
Who is the client
The report goes to whoever hires the assessor. If you are the tenant and the landlord books it, ask for a copy.
The unit above and the shared pipes
In a large building, the assessor checks water from other units and common lines before anything else.
Photos with dates
Keep them from the first sign. They support the report and the request.
Hempstead's rental share and flood record
Census estimates for 2020 to 2024 count 18,747 housing units in the Village of Hempstead, 52.5 percent of occupied homes rented and 35.9 percent of units in buildings of twenty or more, against 18.1 percent and 9.0 percent for Nassau County, with a median year built of 1958.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, Hempstead village, tables B25034, B25035, B25003, B25024 and B25040, accessed 2026-09-23
The county hazard plan lists the Village of Hempstead with 43 flood insurance policies and 13 claims paid since 1978, totaling $222,195, and the village's own annex states that the village does not lie within the 100 year floodplain.
Source: Nassau County Hazard Mitigation Plan 2021, jurisdictional annex for the Village of Hempstead, accessed 2026-09-23
New York Labor Law section 936 bars any licensee from performing both the mold assessment and the mold remediation on the same property, bars any person from owning an interest in both licensees on that property, and requires the assessment licensee to give a written report to each client it assesses for pay.
Source: New York State Senate, Consolidated Laws, Labor Law 936, accessed 2026-09-23
New York Labor Law section 945 requires the mold assessment licensee to prepare a written remediation plan before work starts, covering the work areas, quantities of material, methods, protective equipment, clearance procedures and criteria, occupant notices, an estimate of cost and time and, where possible, the underlying sources of moisture with the type of contractor who should fix them.
Source: New York State Senate, Consolidated Laws, Labor Law 945, accessed 2026-09-23
The New York State Department of Health advises tenants to clean small amounts of mold themselves, to ask the landlord or superintendent to inspect and repair persistent mold or water leaks, and, if the landlord does not act, to ask the local building department or code enforcement official to inspect the home.
Source: New York State Department of Health, publication 7287, accessed 2026-09-23
What mold inspection involves in Hempstead
Why a Hempstead rental benefits from an independent report
What a Hempstead assessment produces is paper both sides can trust. New York requires the assessment licensee to give a written report to each client it assesses for pay, along with a remediation plan setting out the areas, the methods and, when it can be found, what is supplying the water. In this village that report often has two readers. Census estimates put 52.5 percent of the Village of Hempstead's occupied homes as rented and 35.9 percent of its units in buildings of twenty or more, against 18.1 and 9.0 percent across Nassau.
Renting or letting a home in the Village of Hempstead?
Say which side of the lease you are on and where the mold is. An independent assessor can report to you.
Hempstead questions from tenants and landlords about assessment
Can the landlord's repair company do the assessment too?
Not if it is also doing the removal. New York keeps those two jobs with two separate licensed firms on any one property.
Is this page about the Town of Hempstead?
No. It covers the incorporated Village of Hempstead. The wider Town of Hempstead includes places like Elmont and most of Levittown, which have their own pages here.
Get one Hempstead report both sides can use
Send the details of the unit or house. A person answers.