When BreAnna Eshun and her husband moved into a rental house in Norwood this spring, she says they noticed hints things were amiss. Each room had air fresheners in multiple outlets. And there was a lingering odor — like animal waste — that wouldn’t go away.

Eshun says she began asking the company they rented from, Second Avenue, to address the odor via its online maintenance portal.

"It took months of maintenance requests to get the air vents cleaned," she says.

Eventually, contractors came to do the long-awaited vent cleaning. But they left quickly. Eshun says they told her there was asbestos that prevented them from cleaning the vents.

Meanwhile, the couple started feeling sick.

"I take medication for my allergies, but my husband doesn’t," she says. "When I noticed him really sneezi

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