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29 March 2018 | 11 replies
These buildings all require steel girder retrofits to meet the new earthquake laws after the Northridge Earthquake.
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6 March 2018 | 3 replies
I am originally from Haiti but grew up in the northeast.
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10 March 2018 | 1 reply
Hi. all my eggs are in the NW real estate basket. my 2 best properties are big 2 story 6 bed homes w/ separate 1 bedroom cottages. super cash flow, easy to rent, great neighborhood. worth about 600k each. all 4 b...
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10 May 2018 | 7 replies
You can get insurance to cover volcano damage, just like you can get earthquake insurance in CA.
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10 April 2018 | 5 replies
-More natural disaster risk exposure, as I live in earthquake country.
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12 April 2018 | 68 replies
Tainted water in flint, oil spill on the coast, massive fire in Sonoma, earthquakes, floods, etc.
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14 August 2018 | 12 replies
Also doing so as a hedge from our local market, a consideration of worst-case if we get an earthquake up here.
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9 July 2019 | 10 replies
The crap repairs post earthquake plus the lack of restoration make it high risk.
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30 May 2018 | 2 replies
I’d like to look into buying a property that is in need of major* earthquake retrofit.
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20 February 2018 | 3 replies
In a sense, we would be accepting the risk of this place potentially decreasing in value as much as it could appreciate (e.g. if there's an earthquake or other major damage, etc).