New Lead Paint Renovation Rules

We just had NJAR's legal team give  a legislative update at our board a week ago, and this was one of the topics.  More fun for us to deal with!

Deborah,

Like most things, over time the worry will disipate and become common place. It is all our responsibilities to be good stewards of our environment.

In many cases this is just not about a little dust. It is often about contractors who scrape and sand lead based paints and allow the dust and chips to fall to the ground and into the water table.

Rules and laws are put into place when common sense rules are ignored.

Deborah: I wonder if we'll see something similar down the road having to do with repairing Chinese drywall.  It's always a shame when a good idea (like no lead paint for kids) is enforced through extremes.  Hopefully the impact really will be minimal, while still getting rid of lead in homes where children are present.  Thanks for sharing!