Public Service Announcement—Palisades Fire

[mountainboy]

Another article from WSJ re plight of avg Joe's & Janes, affected by the fires...
Praying for everyone...

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/los-angeles-fire-housing-shortage-a1424502?st=CvfB6e&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

 

[Ken555]

This site launched today. It is heartbreaking for those of us who know these homes, and not just as statistics.

Palisades Fire – LA County Recovers

recovery.lacounty.gov

 

[klpca]

This site launched today. It is heartbreaking for those of us who know these homes, and not just as statistics.

Palisades Fire – LA County Recovers

recovery.lacounty.gov

It is always amazing to see homes with no damage alongside homes that were destroyed. We saw it in San Diego, and the map shows it again in Pacific Palisades. Fire is wild.

Btw, my BIL who is a fire captain, says that they see homes burn from the inside because the heat causes things like curtains and blinds to catch fire. He tells us to take the window coverings down, and leave hoses out and attached to a spigot in the backyard.

 

[clifffaith]

Found out today that a neighbor at the old folks home lost two rental homes in the Altadena fire. One tenant had rental insurance, was very nice while asking for her January rent back. The other tenant without insurance was grumpy with her. And double whammy, she lived for twenty years in the Palisades. Built five homes, lived in two, sold them all over the years. Kids grew up there. All gone.

 

[VacationForever]

Found out today that a neighbor at the old folks home lost two rental homes in the Altadena fire. One tenant had rental insurance, was very nice while asking for her January rent back. The other tenant without insurance was grumpy with her. And double whammy, she lived for twenty years in the Palisades. Built five homes, lived in two, sold them all over the years. Kids grew up there. All gone.

The main question is whether your neighbor had insurance on the 2 rental properties.

 

[clifffaith]

The main question is whether your neighbor had insurance on the 2 rental properties.

Never occurred to me to consider that an intelligent well-to-do business woman would not have insurance on homes she had tenants in. No reason to doubt she was insured.

 

[VacationForever]

Never occurred to me to consider that an intelligent well-to-do business woman would not have insurance on homes she had tenants in. No reason to doubt she was insured.

So then "All gone." refers to the rental homes being gone and memories that went with them, but is not financially devastating.

 

[clifffaith]

So then "All gone." refers to the rental homes being gone and memories that went with them, but is not financially devastating.

For her I imagine it’s just a big PITA that she has to deal with whatever one does with two piles of burned rubble. Possibly the path of least resistance is to sell the lots and let someone else deal with the rebuild. My impression is that the Altadena homes were originally bought only as an investment. Having actually lived in the Palisades she is quite emotional over what that community has lost. There is a new resident who rumor has it has her house still for sale in one of the burn areas. Imagine funding your stay at the old folks home with a house, even if it is still standing, in the midst of a disaster zone. OFH allows move in with your funds still tied up until your house is sold a few months later, not sure how flexible they are, but I expect they’d allow a compassionate reprieve to get the problem sorted out.

 

[pedro47]

Just heartbreaking, how do you replace thirty or forty years of memories???