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Originally Posted by Blackheart
Originally Posted by JeffA
FEMA money is a fickle thing.

You can only qualify for repair/replacement if it's your primary residence.

If you're insured, you don't get none.

If you're a dead beat renter, they shovel it to you so you can become a dead beat home owner.

If you're already a dead beat home owner and have zero insurance on your primary swamp located home, FEMA brings you crisp hard cash by the truckload typically within 3 to 5 days after the related storm.

Don't ask me why I know this.

I've seen single wide 12x70 mobile homes magically turn into 3500sf sprawling waterfront estates after FEMA gets done fixin' them up.

They need to start naming hurricanes more appropriately.
Names such as Bingo, Jackpot or Yahoo would be more fitting.
Our doublewide was destroyed by flooding in June 2006. We did not have flood insurance as we didn't live in a floodplain. Our property hadn't been flooded in the last 100 years. We still owed 11K on it so still had to make the monthly payments to the bank or default on the loan, even though we could no longer live in it. It took until November 2006 {five months} before FEMA finally paid off the loan for us so we could start looking for a new place. Meanwhile we stayed with my inlaws {what a blast}. Paying off the loan on our destroyed home so we could start over with a new loan on a new place was all FEMA did in our case. We ultimately went from living in a doublewide that would have been paid off in two more years to a singlewide that took 12 more years to pay off. 90% of our belongings were destroyed. FEMA inspectors estimated our total loss, including furniture, appliances, TV, stereo, etc. etc. at 184k. Many things were destroyed that just can't be replaced. Perhaps the worst being all the family photos from when my kids were little. Yeah, we made out like bandits and it was grand. I highly recommend the experience for everyone.

What a loser.


Originally Posted by Geno67
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual.
Originally Posted by Judman
Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
Originally Posted by KSMITH
My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I live in the woods, if a forest fire burns down my house I have homeowners insurance.... simple
I even up my policy as values rise


Originally Posted by Judman
PS, if you think Trump is “good” you’re way stupider than I thought! Haha

Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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Originally Posted by JeffA
Originally Posted by renegade50
Remember all those 5k prepaid they handed after Katrina..

That was a bunch of bullschit nationwide....

5 grand?

We're not even on the same planet here.

Yesterday I sat and listened to a guy bitching because FEMA capped him at $300K after Hurricane Hermine in 2016 put 8 inches of water in his double wide.

When I worked as a subcontractor post Katrina out of Gulfport,MS, Major Damage Flood was not designated below 11". It was a debacle to navigate the system then (for me as a newbie) and at least 30% of the inspections I did had a fraudulent feel to them!

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Originally Posted by Blackheart
Originally Posted by JeffA
FEMA money is a fickle thing.

You can only qualify for repair/replacement if it's your primary residence.

If you're insured, you don't get none.

If you're a dead beat renter, they shovel it to you so you can become a dead beat home owner.

If you're already a dead beat home owner and have zero insurance on your primary swamp located home, FEMA brings you crisp hard cash by the truckload typically within 3 to 5 days after the related storm.

Don't ask me why I know this.

I've seen single wide 12x70 mobile homes magically turn into 3500sf sprawling waterfront estates after FEMA gets done fixin' them up.

They need to start naming hurricanes more appropriately.
Names such as Bingo, Jackpot or Yahoo would be more fitting.
Our doublewide was destroyed by flooding in June 2006. We did not have flood insurance as we didn't live in a floodplain. Our property hadn't been flooded in the last 100 years. We still owed 11K on it so still had to make the monthly payments to the bank or default on the loan, even though we could no longer live in it. It took until November 2006 {five months} before FEMA finally paid off the loan for us so we could start looking for a new place. Meanwhile we stayed with my inlaws {what a blast}. Paying off the loan on our destroyed home so we could start over with a new loan on a new place was all FEMA did in our case. We ultimately went from living in a doublewide that would have been paid off in two more years to a singlewide that took 12 more years to pay off. 90% of our belongings were destroyed. FEMA inspectors estimated our total loss, including furniture, appliances, TV, stereo, etc. etc. at 184k. Many things were destroyed that just can't be replaced. Perhaps the worst being all the family photos from when my kids were little. Yeah, we made out like bandits and it was grand. I highly recommend the experience for everyone.


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