What is the best path to take after a natural disaster to recover the maximum amount in damages?

I would have your Atty draft a letter to the brokers they work for and cc a copy to the local real estate board and the state Atty generals officeOr you could just send an email to all of the above Truly is remarkable how people will take action on something when they're made aware that the email you're sending them is also being CCed to the state Attorney General's office Such a simple thing and yet I've been able to recover thousands of dollars by doing just that.

That means means the market is finally recovering here! 

At times prices fall drastically and it feels like the trend has reversed, but sure enough they recover the next day or week.

In the sidewalk example, if the manager negligently failed to repair the sidewalk, that injured party may be able to sue the manager personally and recover.

Historically this makes sense as well because as Reinhart and Rogoff pointed out in This Time Is Different, recovering from a debt bubble involves lower spending as debt is paid down and savings built up.

I will be submetering and recovering approx $40 per unit after bad debt.So ... my question to you guys out there is how aggressively would you go after the rent increases and submetering.

If you might be moving soon, you may not have time to recover any savings (if any exists) in home ownership compared to renting because of the cost of acquisition (closing costs) and sale (commissions) of the property you would buy.What is your family situation? 

You would be recovering that $30k over 16 years in $1872 increments/year.  

Richard, when do you see the market recovering?