Your concrete slab and the concrete fixtures around your property can pose a threat to your family’s well-being if they’re allowed to suffer extensive damage. Pitting, flakes, and stains may not seem like an immediate cause for concern, but if you leave them alone, they can easily worsen. Even before these conditions evolve, they can lower the overall value of your home, making it more difficult to sell.    Selling a Home with Damaged Concrete    Putting a home with damaged concrete on the market isn’t impossible. It can, however, be difficult. If you don’t make a point of repairing your home’s damaged concrete, you may have to list as much on the ad you put out for your home. This is always the case if the damage has caused your foundation or concrete slab to slip; however, you may be able to get away with not listing pitting in your initial advertisement.    However, there’ll be no hiding any pitting, stains, or flaking when families start to make their way out to your property. In these cases, if you refuse to take care of the damage at hand, you risk losing up to 30 percent of your home’s market value.    Caring for Your Family    Damaged concrete poses two dangers to your family, especially if you allow the damage to fester. First, it can make it more difficult for those parties who have trouble getting from place to place to maneuver outside of or throughout your home. Pits, in particular, can catch walkers’ feet or mobility aids, generally making your home less pleasant to maneuver around. This kind of damage can also evolve into the kinds of cracks or decay that can make a driveway or sidewalk unusable over time.    Second, damaged concrete can easily become an incubator for all manner of molds, many of which can cause your family to start suffering from respiratory problems. Your family doesn’t have to have a recorded history of these conditions. Instead, long-term exposure to allergenic, pathogenic, and toxigenic molds can make those residents who come into contact with them suffer from coughs, new allergies, and weaker lungs. Even if the mold growth appears outside of your home, their spores will have an easier time getting into your HVAC system, where they can wreak havoc for the whole of your family.