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Post# 473530   10/6/2024 at 07:59 by fan-of-fans (USA)   |   | |
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I’m getting so nervous about this storm that’s expected to be a category 3 before it makes landfall. Especially seeing the devastation from Helene across 5 states just a week ago.
It looks like this could not only severely impact the coast, but all of central Florida given it’s path, I don’t think it will have much time/land to even weaken before it gets here. 20 years ago I didn’t get so worried about the storms, in 2004 we had three major storms within two months, and I never really got nervous. But I noticed during Ian a few years ago I was quite stressed out. If I didn’t have family here, I’d consider just leaving the state, but I don’t want to deal with the really cold weather and constant cloudiness of the winters in other places. I don’t suppose I’ll ever be able to afford to buy a home here anyway, no matter how much I save up, due to the increasingly high insurance costs. I do wonder how many people are going to have to sell their homes because they can’t afford homeowners insurance anymore. |
Post# 473603 , Reply# 1   10/11/2024 at 09:09 by kloveland (Tulsa)   |   | |
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Post# 473682 , Reply# 2   10/15/2024 at 20:56 by fan-of-fans (USA)   |   | |
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This is a major reason I’m afraid to buy a home. I don’t want to leave Florida because all my family are here, but it’s becoming increasingly expensive the last few years to insure a home. But if you have a mortgage, you have to have insurance. What if it gets so expensive you can’t afford it anymore. Or can’t even get insurance?
So I guess the only way to afford to live here is to just rent an apartment forever? That wasn’t what I had in mind, but seems like it might end up being the case. Especially with home prices and interest rates more than doubling in just 4 years. |
Post# 473712 , Reply# 3   10/17/2024 at 17:31 by panasonicvac (Northern Utah)   |   | |
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Regardless where you'd move to, there's always going to be a natural disaster. Blizzards, earthquakes, twisters, volcanoes, wildfires, etc. Also don't forget other things that could go wrong in a home such as fires from something electrical for example or flooding cause by a broken pipe which just happened earlier this year from my grandfather's cabin up in Montana. He's very lucky that his insurance is paying for almost everything. My uncle owns a rental home down in Davenport FL which is close to where the theme parks like Disneyworld are at, he just had someone inspected it for him cause he lives in Oregon and there was very minimal damage like some of the screens from the enclosure got ripped.
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