Tenants agreed in a pretrial settlement to pay their landlord $50,000 for back rent after claiming exposure to mold in their leased Sunny Isles Beach condo unit made them sick.

Yakov Sarousi signed a lease with Ivetta Golovneva. During the first year of the lease, he claimed water leaked from the laundry room into the living room, saturating the walls and causing mold contamination. Sarousi said he complained of a leak that traveled through the drywall from the laundry room to the living room.