[QUOTE=Boomer;1653256]Thank you, Marilyn Riccio. I have been following that situation, off and on, for a while. Those people have to feel trapped and heavily stressed. I have the ability (or maybe it’s a curse) to put myself in another’s place and give thought to how they must feel. (Sometimes I wish I were callous and self-absorbed. But I do not think my personality will change after having it for oh so many decades.)
Many people in TV have mortgage-free homes. A lot of them have paid cash up front, having sold their houses up north for a tidy profit. While there is a definite comfort zone in having no mortgage, it means that the homeowner is the bank, the whole bank, and nothing but
the bank — the risk-carrier. unquote snipped
This does not explain why the builder of any community would or should be expected to repair the results of an event of nature.
Sinkhole insurance is available but may not be cheap. Neither is Hurricane insurance if you live on the coast. The builders of the home are not legally or morally responsible if they blow down.
It is really just as annoying and wrong to always find something to belittle about successful big business as it is to always defend successful big business.
THAT, I believe is on subject.
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