I heard from the tenant in my beach house last week. He reported that the siding on his house was coming off. Oh wow, just what I needed to hear when I’ve recently been unemployed and hemorrhaging cash like it’ll never run out (insurance on 2 places, credit cards from last vacation and estimated 2015 income taxes!).

Since I was home (looking for a new job), I went down there to take a look and get some pictures of the damage to try and decide if it was worth calling the insurance company about.

Turns out, on one side of the house most of the siding was already falling off or gone! My property manager mentioned that I should take a look at the roof too, since there was a bad hailstorm recently. I figured I had better call the insurance company.

Since it was already late Friday, I couldn’t call them yet. I had to wait til the holiday weekend was over. I figured I might as well enjoy my planned sail on Saturday (and I did). 🙂

Tuesday morning, bright and early (a LOT earlier than I like to wake up), I called the insurance agent. Since I was leaving to go back offshore in just a couple of days, they tried to get me set up with a claims adjuster as soon as possible.

So, that’s how I spent my afternoon (morning was spent frantically trying to finish up taxes to deliver to the accountant since the deadline to get them in to the IRS would fall before I’m due back). Turns out, there was quite a bit of hail damage (I never would have noticed- but then I don’t spend much time up on the roof anymore). 😉

Looks like I’ll already be plenty busy when I get home. Trying to deal with this kind of thing is not real easy from hundreds of miles away. I do have a manager and she’s extremely helpful, but I still like to see the estimates and make the final decision.

So, I guess I’ll deal with roofing and siding repairs when I get home. Hopefully we don’t have any hurricanes come through here before then!