Gonna give my perspective.
All this is to say try to do the simple things if you can. Find someone willing to scrub and disinfect first. If you must demolish and repair make sure it is a turnkey quote. But yeah mold guys are scummy because they are 1000% incented that way.
I had a fairly serious mold problem in my basement several years ago. To avoid (or at least minimize) the problem you mention, I hired a mycologist to diagnose the problem and develop a remediation plan of action. She also agreed to do a post-remediation inspection. (She is not in the remediation business, so there was no way she was going to get that job.) I then went to several remediation contractors for bids to execute the remediation plan. A couple of contractors didn’t want to bid on jobs this particular mycologist had diagnosed because she is such a hard-ass on inspections.
Being a retired military guy, I recall the old dictum, “what isn’t inspected is often neglected” and I was just as glad those guys took themselves out of the running for the job. By following the mycologist’s recommendations, I have been mold free for several years now.
If the OP is in Massachusetts and wants specific names, feel free to PM me.
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