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A friend of mines is financially better off after the flood. The floodedhouse (IP) is in Fairfield, Brisbane. The insurer paid them rents during the time they were waiting for assessment. Then they opted to received 250K as anone off payment for the rebuilding of the house. But they are currently renovating the house with an estimated cost of 70K (it is nearly done now) and will re-rent it at 400kisk per week. They pocket nearly 200K.
OK the value of the house on the paper has sure been reduced, but they dont have to sell.
This link may help,i had a listen yesterday to what they had to say and all the questions asked,but noone could answer my question,"Where is the money to pay everyone to come from,"Qld already broke..By the second anniversary of the flood, we may have a decision as to what's happening, though it'll certainly be closer to 2.5 years before we have any hope of moving back home.
But even more importantly, I have been hoping that your young family are dealing with the two flooding episodes so close together and not finding things too difficult. Though being away from home for so long is definitely not helping things.
I think we've been through enough therapy to somewhat alleviate the trauma of the floods themselves, though now, as you say, there's the ongoing disruption to our lives, and feeling like everything is "temporary", and we don't even know when or how it might end; it's definitely not fun.2.5 years away from home my heart breaks for you and for the disruption to your little ones. I remember your son had a bit of trauma from the floods the 1st time round... how are they coping now?
Thanks. Yes, I've registered to be a member of the class action with regards to damages for loss of amenity, ie being out of our house for 2 1/2 years, but I don't know whether that's within the scope of the class action.This link may help
Thanks.Perp you have my deepest sympathy.
I could just about write a book. As we may end up in court, I don't yet want to get too specific, but there have been some incredibly dodgy manoeuvres and conflicts of interest that we've discovered through this process. It's outrageous. If a government department were involved there'd be grounds for a Royal Commission... but alas private enterprise is not nearly so accountable.Hope your insurer gets its act together, and the 3rd party too. I think it sucks that the builder has a vested interest in trying to do the job and therefore giving you guys the run around. There is something wrong with the process!!
We're in Kenmore. There are a few other empty houses around, but by and large, most people in my area have moved on, either because they weren't too badly affected, weren't insured anyway and made do with grants, or just gave up fighting the insurers and accepted a scope repairs that was inadequate. (Like our neighbours.)tess85 said:can I ask which suburb it was?
Not sure on that,, most i talked too were going for high land value loss but in the street we still have a property in 7 houses are still vacant,and from what i'm told the higher river areas bottom levels are higher now prior too the 2011 floods river levels,so next time the spread may be greater..Thanks. Yes, I've registered to be a member of the class action with regards to damages for loss of amenity, ie being out of our house for 2 1/2 years, but I don't know whether that's within the scope of the class action.
Tell me about it! At least we're headed in the right direction - insurer recently more than trebled their offer, and we're now "in the ballpark" - but some people still have made little progress since the floods, apparently.Hi Trace
You are still going through that crap?! That's crazy.
There is a lot of that going on in Rocklea with the movement in the walls and stumps but Rocklea has a lot of black soil and you always get that in black soil,plus there is still a lot of houses in Rocklea where the houses are still same as they were in 2011,insurance company never gave us one cent nor the government..Yet another group of people experienced movement of their house during the flood, and the insurer refused to stabilise (underpinning etc.), and they thought "oh well, the insurer has to cover it with their lifetime warranty anyway; if the house moves in a few years' time they can fix it again".
Little do they realise that they won't be covered at all. The lifetime warranty is only guaranteeing the quality of the scope of works that were actually done; it doesn't cover future movement, or work that should have been done and wasn't.
When you accept your home back from the insurer after repairs, you have to sign a release that basically says - if anybody bothers to read it - "the insurer has fixed every bit of damage that was attributable to the flood". So if they didn't do any structural works, you're committing, in writing, to agreeing that the flood didn't do any structural damage.
Seriously, I predict that for many years we're going to hear of flood-related structural problems with houses - up to and including sliding down hills and even falling down - due to the soil disturbance and damage caused by the 2011 floods, which the insurers will completely deny any responsibility for.
And the insurers will be able to produce written proof from homeowners - who were just desperate to get back home - that the flood had nothing to do with it.