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You say you found very little mold, and have made no claim that it is either obvious or a health risk, so I doubt that you will get very far trying to break your lease on that basis.
I am not a mold expert and that is why I think it is not obvious to me. The location of it is very easy to see. It is in the bathroom area spotted about a foot long on the ceiling, maybe a total of about 8 spots some being about half dollar size.

As for the health risks we have not moved in, to test if it will irritate us health wise. We have a 6 month old baby, and finding out by moving in and "finding out" is not the way we would want to do it.

There are also spots where you can see the roof is leaking (water spots on the ceiling) and a pretty good water leak under the kitchen sink which could house mold (I didn't look in there in too much depth when I saw the water damage).

My concern is the mold in the attic / between the walls because of the water leaking from the roof.

California Law requires that the roof does not leak, but I believe it includes the word "substantial" with leaking, and I don't know if I would consider the current leak "substantial" but then again, it isn't even rainy season and the previous tenant (which we know) said it didn't lean while they were there (There was about a 6 month time between the move out of the last tenants and the move-in by us)