What the equipment in North Lauderdale can and cannot remove
Split systems with the air handler in an attic, a closet or a garage. The line to check is the one carrying water that has just been condensed out of warm humid air, because biological growth inside that pipe closes it gradually and the first sign is the pan overflowing. A secondary pan with a float switch is what should stop that, and in this stock it is frequently absent, blocked itself, or disconnected because it kept shutting the system off on a hot day.
The reason that matters is a gap between two numbers, both from the Florida Solar Energy Center at the University of Central Florida. Through the hot months, with cooling running, indoor relative humidity should not exceed 55% during the day on a regular basis. And the great majority of mold species need a material moisture content corresponding to a relative humidity of at least 70% to grow at all.
Note where that second number is measured. Not in the room. At the material. Air holds less moisture as it cools, so the film of air against a chilled surface sits at a far higher relative humidity than the room average. A wall at 68F with 78F room air at 55% is close to saturation at its own face, and it does not need a leak to get there. That is the mechanism behind almost every complaint where nobody can find a source.
So in North Lauderdale we read surface temperatures with an infrared thermometer alongside the room air, calculate the dew point of that air, and record the margin at every surface that has one worth recording. FSEC also give the point at which cooling alone stops being enough: sustained readings of 70 to 75% mean dehumidification rather than a colder thermostat, and turning the thermostat down at that stage chills the surfaces further and makes it worse.
The commercial position in North Lauderdale is the one published on every page of this site, because the rate card is not a Fort Lauderdale rate card. A flat price by property size, agreed before anyone drives out, with the accredited laboratory fee already inside it. It does not rise if the samples come back positive, nothing is added for the drive, and we take no payment of any kind from anyone who removes mold.

What North Lauderdale itself changes
The buildings in North Lauderdale
North Lauderdale holds 16,396 units at a 1978 median, 36% single-family detached and 60% owner-occupied, with a substantial workforce rental component across townhouses, small blocks and manufactured homes at 4.8% of the stock. The buildings themselves are unremarkable for the period and that is the point: ordinary 1970s construction, ordinary attic air handlers, ordinary duct runs. What makes an assessment here worth the money is usually not an exotic building, it is how long a failure has been allowed to run.
Where the water comes from
The most repeated moisture complaint we could find anywhere in Broward's public forums was written from this town, and it describes the mechanism exactly: an air conditioning unit leaking water in a rented flat for five months, mold growing in it, the health department saying it could not act on apartments and code enforcement finding the unit installed improperly and without permit. That is not a weather story or a building story. It is a condensate line, and it is the most common failure in this county.
Where it hides in these buildings
The place to look is wherever the air handler discharges, which in this stock is a closet floor, a garage wall or the ceiling below an attic unit. A condensate overflow is silent and it is usually behind or beneath something, so it is found by meter rather than by eye and it is frequently months old before anybody notices. Everything around and beneath the equipment gets metered on these jobs before anything else.