Smell first is the normal pattern here. What the inspection checks, in the order it checks them.
The $10 to $25 per square foot anchor, the small job band, and what actually moves the number.
Condensate, coils, and oversized units: the three AC failure modes that grow mold on this coast.
Homes shut for weeks with a damp basement grow mold on their own schedule. The checks that prevent it.
In a dry climate, mold is a diary entry, not a condition. Reading Arvada colonies back to the water events that wrote them.