The Safe Home Project
Buying or renting a home with MCAS, CIRS, or mold sensitivity?
For someone with environmental sensitivities, a home isn't just a purchase — it's a medical decision. We give you the data to make it before you sign, not after you've moved in.
Inspection Only — No Referral Fees
HBIA Certified Biotoxin Assessor
Accredited Laboratories
Physician-Coordinated
22+ Years
Disclosure: our founder holds a partial ownership interest in HBIA and serves on its board, so that credential is not an independent audit of our work. Full disclosure here.
If you've ever walked into a house and felt your body shut down, you're not imagining it.
Headaches that started in the foyer. Brain fog by the second bedroom. Hives, racing heart, throat tightness, sudden panic, exhaustion you can't explain. By the time you get back to your car, you're not sure if the house is wrong or if you're wrong.
You're not wrong. The house is talking to your immune system, and your immune system is listening. For someone with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS), or any form of mold or chemical sensitivity, the wrong home isn't just uncomfortable.
Conventional realtors and home inspectors aren't trained to look for what's making you sick. We are.
Who This Is For
Who The Safe Home Project serves
If you see yourself in any of these, you're our person.
MCAS Patients
Anyone with diagnosed or suspected Mast Cell Activation Syndrome who reacts to mold spores, VOCs, fragrance, or biotoxins.
CIRS Patients
Patients following the Shoemaker Protocol, or working with CIRS-literate physicians, who need ERMI or HERTSMI-2 verified housing.
Mold-Sensitive Renters
Renters who won't sign another lease without knowing what's in the air, the walls, and the HVAC system.
Environmentally Ill Families
Families relocating to escape a sick home — or any home where a child, spouse, or pet is unexplainedly ill.
What We Do
Six services built around the buyer the rest of the industry isn't trained for
A complete pre-purchase and pre-lease toolkit for environmentally sensitive buyers and renters.
Service 01 · Next-Day Decision
The Sensitivity Walk-Through™
Before you fall in love with a house, we walk it with you. Real-time particle, VOC, humidity and temperature readings while you're inside.
A plain go/no-go verdict by the next business day, so you can make an offer — or walk away — on data instead of a feeling.
Lab panels take longer. The walk-through verdict doesn't wait on them.
Service 02 · Physician-Grade Testing
ERMI & HERTSMI-2 Pre-Purchase Testing
The dust testing your CIRS doctor actually wants to see. We collect properly, ship to a qualified lab, and return results your physician can use under the Shoemaker Protocol — not a generic mold report.
Formatted for your CIRS-literate practitioner, not for a real estate file.
Service 03 · Chemical Sensitivity
VOC, Formaldehyde & Mycotoxin Screening
Newer is not safer. Fresh paint, new carpet, vinyl flooring and engineered wood off-gas chemicals that MCAS bodies can't tolerate.
We screen for what your nose can't catch in time.
Service 04 · Hidden Damage
HVAC, Crawlspace & Water Damage Forensics
Hidden moisture is where mold lives. We open the systems other inspectors close — supply trunks, return plenums, crawlspaces, attic platforms, behind washer hookups.
We read the history the seller didn't disclose.
Service 05 · Clinician Coordination
Physician-Ready Documentation
Your CIRS or functional medicine physician gets a report formatted for their charts — not a generic mold inspection PDF.
We coordinate directly with your provider when you authorize us to.
Service 06 · Remote
Remote Listing Pre-Screening
Out of state? We review listing photos, satellite imagery, county records and floodplain data before you fly out.
We've talked clients out of bad properties over the phone. We've also told them which ones were worth the trip.
How It Works
A clear path from "I'm worried" to "I can sign"
Four steps. Tell us your contingency deadline on the first call and we'll tell you honestly whether it's achievable.
01
Intake Call
We learn your sensitivity profile, timeline and physician. Free, 15–20 minutes.
02
Property Triage
Listing review or a sensitivity walk-through to decide whether the property is worth full testing.
03
Lab Testing
ERMI, HERTSMI-2, mycotoxin, VOC — only the panels your case actually needs.
04
Decision Report
Plain-English go/no-go with physician-ready documentation. You make the call.
Why Sensitive Buyers Choose Us
Independent. By design.
22+ years in indoor environmental health. Minority woman-owned. Guided by the functional medicine community. And the most important thing you'll read on this page:
We do not do remediation. Which means we have zero financial reason to find mold that isn't there — or to miss mold that is.
That independence is what makes a go/no-go report worth acting on. It's why our documentation holds up when a physician, an insurer or an attorney reads it. And it's what makes a Safe Home Project assessment genuinely different from a standard home inspection.
Inspection Only
No Referral Fees
HBIA Certified
Physician Coordinated
Our founder holds a partial ownership interest in HBIA and serves on its board, so we don't ask you to read that credential as an independent audit of our work. Read the full disclosure.
Under Contract? The Clock Is Ticking.
Don't sign anything until we've walked it.
If you're under contract, your contingency window won't wait. Call and we'll tell you what we can get done in the time you have. Out of state? Remote pre-screening can start today.
Healthier Homes. Healthier Families. · Breathe Better. Live Better.