I own a 16 pad trailer park, plus the trailers. Today when I was leaving work I got a call that one of my trailers burned down. Fortunately noone was injured. The fire was caused by a contractor putting in a new sewer line for the township and they hit a gas line. Turns out the gas company did not mark the gas line, so the fault lies on them.
The adjuster for the gas company is sending out an appraiser tomorrow to appraise this 30 year old trailer. Book value of this trailer is about $1k. However, I was recieving rent of $400/month for this trailer.
So the question is, how hard can I push on getting made whole? Another factor is that they no longer make trailers this size, so to replace it, one would need to be custom made to fit in this spot.
I guess a better way to put it would be, I can see them balking at $400/monthX12 months X 20 years, which is roughly 100k, or paying 60k to custom made a new one. So from your experience, is it worth getting an attorney to fight this? Can I be made whole? What is reasonable to expect?
The adjuster for the gas company is sending out an appraiser tomorrow to appraise this 30 year old trailer. Book value of this trailer is about $1k. However, I was recieving rent of $400/month for this trailer.
So the question is, how hard can I push on getting made whole? Another factor is that they no longer make trailers this size, so to replace it, one would need to be custom made to fit in this spot.
I guess a better way to put it would be, I can see them balking at $400/monthX12 months X 20 years, which is roughly 100k, or paying 60k to custom made a new one. So from your experience, is it worth getting an attorney to fight this? Can I be made whole? What is reasonable to expect?
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