All Forum Posts by: Zoe Lee

Unless is wider than 6 ft you may be able to leave at the curb for bulk pick up. City of fort worth has a bulk collection day once each month. You may also be able to haul and drop off yourself at the fw dump

Thank you! We are in Plano so a bit too far for us. Any small business can take care of this for us?

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Hi fellow investors,

We had to evict a tenant who left bunch of stuff behind. A motor bike frame, a rubber kayak, and much more.

So far all we could find from the county is very pricy, a couple of grand.

Does anyone know if there are more affordable options to take care of this?

Thanks!

Zoe

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Originally posted by @Mark Buskuhl:

https://ahsc.us/

Thanks Mark.

on that website I saw this:

"Not required to be reviewed, inspected or filed with the state, however these services are available, if desired."

Does this mean it's not required?

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Yes guys it is a fourplex. In Fort Worth.

Any good testing company to recommend?

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Are asbesto and lead testing required for water damage repair related demolition in Texas?

Been working with a california-based water damage repair company. They said they cannot open the wall without asbesto and lead testing.

Is this a California regulation or Texas? The property was built in 1985.

Thanks,

Zoe

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Originally posted by @Bob Freitag:

I am a public adjuster and sorry to hear you are going though all of this. This is not uncommon. Water/Sewage backups are not always covered under a policy. Many times you have to endorse this extra coverage on your policy. So the first thing I would do is contact your adjuster and have them send you a denial in writing if they have not already done so. I will be happy to review their denial and your policy to confirm this for you. If you have a lot of properties, sit down with your insurance agent and make sure you have this coverage on all policies. It is pennies on the dollar.

As far as the first restoration company, I assume that once they discovered you have no insurance for the claim, they do not want to do anymore work for you and have moved on. They know it is unlikely that people have funds to come out of pocket to pay for work and are not crazy about doing a lot of work and then fighting you to get paid. You need to terminate their contract in writing, and you will owe them for any work they have done for you. Then at that time you are free to hire anyone you chose to do the repairs.

Bob, got the letter, stating "wear and tear". But a week before the flooding, we just replaced a sewer line intending to fix the problem. If after fixing, still "wear and tear", does that mean after we fix again, if something happens again, they can call that "wear and tear" again? Unless we replace the whole septic system, they could keep citing the same thing and demy claims?

Another bad news: The water damage company billed us $6,000 for extracting water, dry, the only thing they yet to do is to remove contaminated floor, dry wall. They quoted us $9k for the entire "Mitigation". A week later the water backed up again. Now if we send them back to extract the water again, is that amother $6k? Or they charge by project, meaning maybe the second time extraction is included in the 9k?

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Originally posted by @Bob Freitag:

Thanks Bob. Will the contract termination written in text message be sufficient?

The insurance company denied this time due to "ongoing issue". After we fix the system, could they cite the same reason again in the future to deny us?

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Originally posted by @Colleen F.:

@Zoe Lee We have a similar setup with a pump behind the barn to the leach field. The main line was clogged for us and that was the line had to route. The guy could do nothing from the apartments. You could see if someone will scope the line (put a camera in it) that will tell you if it is collapsed or something but I would just try to clear the main line first. 30 year old septics can be fine. Could be an issue but I wouldn't jump to replacing septic unless you get more then one qualified opinion it is failed from people who aren't going to make money by telling you it failed..

Colleen, thanks so much for your continous responses.

You hired three companies.

1, a plumber

2, pumper

3, routing guy

Is the pumber just a regular plumber? Did he scope the lines?

Is the routing guy from a septic tank company or a regular plumber? Or a specialist specialized in routing?

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Originally posted by @Michael Jones:

@Zoe Lee I recommend you pursue this angle. It's worth continuing to try to work with insurance. Your tenants should have submitted a work order to the PM if they were having issues. If they did not submit an order, then there's no evidence that there were issues and no reason your insurance company should only side with one side of the story that is entirely verbal.

If you have evidence that the septic maintenance company was not maintaining the system and fulfilling their part of the contract, you may be able to take them to small claims court.

My tank maintaines company only services the tanks, not the connecting sewer lines. My plumber only checks the plumbing inside the property and replaced the sewer line. There is no company that does both, hence the foreseeable finger pointing which makes it difficult to pinpoint one party and make him accountable.

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