The post whore thread.

[ChickNorris]

Im entertaining going to the Tanner doodad tomorrow as I have never been to a gun show. Maybe.

[Irving]

That's almost word for word what the weather advisory said.

[CS1983]

#IGrewUpInFlorida

[SideShow Bob]

Don’t pay out on that siding, they had the grill too close to the house while cooking in the hurricane.

Or had the flamethrower out when the wind was blowing in the wrong direction.

[Irving]

I ran into this sunset a minute ago. A lot less color in the wide angle.





I like the waves in this one.

[ChickNorris]

Nice. How could anyone look at those colors & not feel happy? Thanks Irving

[Irving]

#IGrewUpInFlorida

I didn't have time to try and swim during those few days. I probably would have today since it went down by half, but that actually looked pretty intimidating so I wasn't going to try.

Don’t pay out on that siding, they had the grill too close to the house while cooking in the hurricane.

That's what I thought as well, and said as much to them. The guy was like, "The house is all the way over there, funny place for a Weber!" I was thinking to myself, 'weren't you just telling me about a dock that was right here?' That dock doesn't show up on the satellite images either, which I'm going to mention in the file. I'm torn on paying for the siding. On one hand, I like to pay for whatever I can reasonably get away with and really try not to nickle and dime people. On the other hand, I really don't like being lied to, and after he tried to convince me there used to be a dock there, I'm a little irritated. On the Gripping Hand, when writing damages for a Cat 5 Hurricane, a lot of stuff gets paid for that wouldn't otherwise and people are generally very happy about that.

While we're talking about it, there are some shady roofers down here.

[Irving]

Google maps has the year in the bottom of the corner. You can also download Google Earth and scroll back through the years and see what was on the property in those past photos. I also inspected the property two doors down and everything they have that was built within the last 3 years shows up in the photos. I did another house across the lake that had a roof installed 3 days before the storm hit, and you can see the old roof in that photo. This carrier ordered a lot of Eagle Views for me, and some of those pictures were so new that they were taken after the storm, but before I inspected, so I could actually see how large the trees on the roof were before they were pulled down before I got there. This one has an Eagle View, but it wasn't after the storm. Either way, they are lying. That's good info on that sat image though. Especially for when I'm looking at stuff where I can't even tell what the building looked like before the storm knocked it to the ground. That picture a few pages back where most of the Florida room was laying in the pool is a perfect example. I've got a lot of claims where I take a picture of some foundation, then walk across the yard, or even into the neighbors yard and take a picture of the debris pile to tell what was there (metal shed, vinyl shed, stick built shed, etc).

[Irving]

On another note, I'm bummed that there apparently any more work down here. I was hoping I could make enough to buy a property and VRBO it. Even though these properties probably have a bit of a touristy premium as far as price, they are CHEAP compared to Denver prices. I think the most I've seen something insured was only $400,00 something. Some of my favorite properties are on an acre lot that is heavily treed, detached garage with a dock right onto a fresh water lake and the dwelling is insured for only like $140k. Whole thing probably goes for $300k, but you could easily pay the mortgage only renting it out half the year.

[iego]

Hey Irving, I have property in Gulf Breeze, just outside Pensacola. If you are still down there, I would appreciate it if you could ride by and give me an idea of what to do with it. The seawall has failed, because the next door neighbor has no seawall and the land has eroded to the point where my seawall has failed.

I think I have an action against the neighbor, but, hey he's a neighbor, right? My seawall wasn't perfect, by any means, but it was $40k when I built it 13 years ago, and now $60k to replace.

Not Hurricane Michael related, it had failed before then.

PM me for more info,

Thanks.

-John