Buck531 Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Neighbors house caught on fire a little after midnight this morning. Took ours with it. Everyone got out safe. This sucks http://flic.kr/s/aHsmEtD9qV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Holy shit dude! The most important thing is family though. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Couldn't imagine. You think of anything you need later on let us know. I know you're overwhelmed now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye1647545503 Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 You know all of og CR peeps will help in anyway we can. You've always been good to me and my people so don't be afraid to ask if you need Anything! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dharris89 Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Sorry to hear. Glad you are ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cordell Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Goddamn man. Words don’t describe how much that sucks. Glad you’re all ok. Cars ok at least? Looking for a bright side maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otis Nice Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Goddamn man. Words don’t describe how much that sucks. Glad you’re all ok. Cars ok at least? Looking for a bright side maybe. His laptop is toast so he won't likely reply quickly. Cars are all good. They were able to get some of their belongings out that they wanted. Garage wasn't touched. Buck, lets us know man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEVE-O Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 So glad everyone was safe first and foremost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck531 Posted June 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Ya the cars are all good. I called my insurance and i. Waiting for a call tomorrow to figure shit out. Gonna be a long fucking road. Bright side. Basically getting a new house. Always wanted to do a massive remodel anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest Gump 9 Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Ya the cars are all good. Bright side. Basically getting a new house. Always wanted to do a massive remodel anyways. That’s the attitude. I wish you a fast process with the insurance company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeitgeist57 Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 I saw that on FB. Glad everyone’s OK. Trippy to see that happen to your own house. That video you posted was bananas. Had a *small* fire in 2013 and got a TON of insurance work done to the interior of my home for smoke remediation. Again, most important thing is everyone was safe but it’s impressive how Insurance doesn’t fuck around with fire/smoke damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Let me know if you need anything man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstmg8 Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Very sorry to hear, but glad the family is ok. Definitely post anything you guys need. Hope the upcoming process is as Swift and stress free as possible. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck531 Posted June 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Only thing we need right now is some cheap android phone for my wife. She somehow dropped it yesterday morning and it cracked the screen and jacked the whole phone. If anyone has one locally we can pick up today that would be awesome. Something stupid cheap and old. She had a lg g2 which is like 10 years old so anything would work. No iphones though. Sprint is the carrier. Shoot me a pm if you have something. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Only thing we need right now is some cheap android phone for my wife. She somehow dropped it yesterday morning and it cracked the screen and jacked the whole phone. If anyone has one locally we can pick up today that would be awesome. Something stupid cheap and old. She had a lg g2 which is like 10 years old so anything would work. No iphones though. Sprint is the carrier. Shoot me a pm if you have something. Thanks can't help on the phone but if you need anything else as others have said, just post up here on CR. I would say collectively CR could prolly fix you up with just about everything you could need. I don't know your son but I have a 16yr old who is about 165lbs and and wearing Med-Large stuff with all kinds of extra clothing for kids. We are literally going through things this week too. Say the word. PM me if your wife needs anything too. My wife is going through all her stuff and lots of it is really nice stuff. Anything dude.....say the word. I'll see if we have something to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck531 Posted June 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 We were able to save just about all the clothes. Just wet and stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wease Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Holy hell dude, glad to hear the family is safe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckeyeROC Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Glad everyone is safe. Like others have said, if we can help somehow, just let us know. Sounds like you're doing pretty well under the circumstances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10phone2 Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 I swung by the house and no one has been inside. I go that way if I park on the street in front of my house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruizin01 Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 What a miserable situation. My grandparents lost their home due to fire and had to rebuild. It takes time but they have a nice place now and the insurance did them right. I hope the same for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Echoing the rest of the sentiments here, brother. Glad you and yours are ok, sorry to hear about the house, let me know if I can help in any way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 I saved this reddit post a while ago in case I ever needed it. You might find it helpful. I used to be the guy who worked for insurance companies, and determined the value of every little thing in your house. The guy who would go head-to-head with those fire-truck-chasing professional loss adjusters. I may be able to help you not get screwed when filing your claim. Our goal was to use the information you provided, and give the lowest damn value we can possibly justify for your item. For instance, if all you say was "toaster" -- we would come up with a cheap-as-fuck $4.88 toaster from Walmart, meant to toast one side of one piece of bread at a time. And we would do that for every thing you have ever owned. We had private master lists of the most commonly used descriptions, and what the cheapest viable replacements were. We also had wholesale pricing on almost everything out there, so really scored cheap prices to quote. To further that example: If you said "toaster - $25" , we would have to be within -20% of that... so, we would find something that's pretty much dead-on $20.01. If you said "toaster- $200" , we'd kick it back and say NEED MORE INFO, because that's a ridiculous price for a toaster (with no other information given.) If you said "toaster, from Walmart" , you're getting that $4.88 one. If you said "toaster, from Macys" , you'd be more likely to get a $25-35 one. If you said "toaster", and all your other kitchen appliances were Jenn Air / Kitchenaid / etc., you would probably get a matching one. If you said "Proctor Silex 42888 2-Slice Toaster from Wamart, $9", you just got yourself $9. If you said "High-end Toaster, Stainless Steel, Blue glowing power button" ... you might get $35-50 instead. We had to match all features that were listed. I'm not telling you to lie on your claim. Not at all. That would be illegal, and could cause much bigger issues (i.e., invalidating the entire claim). But on the flip side, it's not always advantageous to tell the whole truth every time. Pay attention to those last two examples. I remember one specific customer... he had some old, piece of shit projector (from mid-late 90s) that could stream a equally piece of shit consumer camcorder. Worth like $5 at a scrap yard. It had some oddball fucking resolution it could record at, though -- and the guy strongly insisted that we replace with "Like Kind And Quality" (trigger words). Ended up being a $65k replacement, because the only camera on the market happened to be a high-end professional video camera (as in, for shooting actual movies). $65-goddam-thousand-dollars because he knew that loophole, and researched his shit. Remember to list fucking every -- even the most mundane fucking bullshit you can think of. For example, if I was writing up the shower in my bathroom: Designer Shower Curtain - $35 Matching Shower Curtain Liner for Designer Shower Curtain - $15 Shower Curtain Rings x20 - $15 Stainless Steel Soap Dispenser for Shower - $35 Natural Sponge Loofah - from Whole Foods - $15 Natural Sponge Loofah for Back - from Whole Foods - $19 Holder for Loofahs - $20 Bars of soap - from Lush - $12 each (qty: 4) Bath bomb - from Lush - $12 High end shampoo - from salon - $40 High end conditioner - from salon - $40 Refining pore mask - from salon - $55 I could probably keep thinking, and bring it up to about $400 for the contents of my shower. Nothing there is "unreasonable" , nothing there is clearly out of place, nothing seems obviously fake. The prices are a little on the high-end, but the reality is, some people have expensive shit -- it won't actually get questioned. No claims adjuster is going to bother nitpicking over the cost of fucking Lush bath bombs, when there is a 20,000 item file to go through. The adjuster has other shit to do, too. Most people writing claims for a total loss wouldn't even bother with the shower (it's just some used soap and sponges..) -- and those people would be losing out on $400. Some things require documentation & ages. If you say "tv - $2,000" -- you're getting a 32" LCD, unless you can provide it was from the last year or two w/ receipts. Hopefully you have a good paper trail from credit/debit card expenditure / product registrations / etc. If you're missing paper trails for things that were legitimately expensive -- go through every photo you can find that was taken in your house. Any parties you may have thrown, and guests put pics up on Facebook. Maybe an Imgur photo of your cat, hiding under a coffee table you think you purchased from Restoration Hardware. Like... seriously... come up with any evidence you possibly can, for anything that could possibly be deemed expensive. The fire-truck chasing loss adjusters are evil sons of bitches, but, they actually do provide some value. You will definitely get more money, even if they take a cut. But all they're really doing, is just nitpicking the ever-living-shit out of everything you possibly owned, and writing them all up "creatively" for the insurance company to process. Sometimes people would come back to us with "updated* claims. They tried it on their own, and listed stuff like "toaster", "microwave", "tv" .. and weren't happy with what they got back. So they hired a fire-truck chaser, and re-submitted with "more information." I have absolutely seen claims go from under $7k calculated, to over $100k calculated. (It's amazing what can happen when people suddenly "remember" their entire wardrobe came from Nordstrom.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mensan Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 (Insurance info) This is amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morabu Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Shawn, sorry to here this. Years ago, we went through a house fire ourselves. Shit can get very stressful. If you need a break and just talk, or hangout. Let us know if we can help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwashmycar Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 This is amazing. x2. like jaw-open reading that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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