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Oh don't worry, the management will have legal action against them. After I'm out and safely in another property with my perfect rental history safely hidden away, anyway. The property manager has made my life a living hell since this whole thing started. Contacting my parents to tell them they're kicking me out, WTF?!?
Also, friend that does title/deed work for the county I'm in called me today and said that the property I live at just went into foreclosure this week. Current owner hasn't even owned it a year and pretty much stole the place with what he paid for it (valued at about $10M, paid a few M less) and hasn't made a single payment. Explains why it's such a bitch to get maintenance done now and why they're always looking for shit to question you about now. When they came up to fix my door, one of the guys saw a plastic bag with a white substance inside it and immediately snatched it up and started yelling at me about having drugs in my apartment. Asshole, it's a white bezel for a fucking DVD burner, and VERY obvious when you pick it up that it's plastic. Then grabbed a pill bottle off the counter that had... benadryl in it. Had to tell the guy to leave.
As for the rental, I discussed that with my appraiser. He told me what he's going to do is reimburse me for the full contracted daily rate ($25/day), times 13 days (his estimate of how long the claim process started until I should have cash in my pocket - Friday). So $325. I've extended the rental for 3 more days for a whopping $12 and change, so for a week and a half the rental has only cost me about... $205 or so. He told me to use the excess toward my deductible. They've been very fair and open with me, the process is just pretty slow since I'm working with people in multiple states and it's a small, but well established company. The local adjuster I've worked with is local, when I got sent back to the guy in California I told him "You really need to keep this guy, he's great". Turns out the local guy has been with the company for close to 20 years and the guy in Cali said he's one of his favorite coworkers.
I'm also raising my daily contracted rental rate to the maximum after this, shouldn't cost more than a few extra bucks a month.
I feel they also gave me an extremely fair value for the car - if anything, they overvalued it a little. I even mentioned (stupidly) to my adjuster that the value seemed a bit on the high side, he said that before the damage, the paint was like new, I had just done the timing belt/water pump, valve cover gasket, cam seals, front main seal, had fairly new tires (under 8k miles), and he took into account that while the brakes were shot and had just started grinding, I had receipts for new pads that hadn't yet gone on. Had a newish aftermarket exhaust that I got for free (Greddy2 catback, traded the stock one for it, immediately decided I hated the aftermarket, but never put a stock one back on). Interior was so so - original upholstery, everything on the car worked like it just rolled out of the factory including the a/c and power options, but no floormats and the drivers seat was stained (but nothing torn). We discussed what I paid for it and how long I owned it, he said I must have blindsided the dealer I got it from and said it had way, way below average mileages and was in better than average condition for its age. Plus it's very difficult to find a decently optioned Accord of that vintage with a manual transmission.
I do admit I got a damn good deal when I bought the car 4 years ago, especially considering I got it from a Honda dealer. Wasn't CPO or anything, but I walked out that dealer feeling like I just raped the salesguy (got $2k off of their sticker price and even got them below their "absolute bottom line" price, later found out they just barely turned a profit on it from a family member that works with the guy).
Overall, the whole experience with the apartments and vandalism has sucked, but the adjusters I worked with made it as painless as possible. It's a 2001 Honda Accord LX sedan, which, if it was automatic, is the textbook definition of "most common car in the world" around here right down to the color. Since it was manual that made it a lot harder to easily replace. Just rolled over 116k miles, got it 4 years ago with 82k, and it was the most dependable, reliable, boring car I've ever owned. Don't want to discuss what I paid for it or what I'm supposed to get until the cash is in the bank for obvious reasons though.
Also, friend that does title/deed work for the county I'm in called me today and said that the property I live at just went into foreclosure this week. Current owner hasn't even owned it a year and pretty much stole the place with what he paid for it (valued at about $10M, paid a few M less) and hasn't made a single payment. Explains why it's such a bitch to get maintenance done now and why they're always looking for shit to question you about now. When they came up to fix my door, one of the guys saw a plastic bag with a white substance inside it and immediately snatched it up and started yelling at me about having drugs in my apartment. Asshole, it's a white bezel for a fucking DVD burner, and VERY obvious when you pick it up that it's plastic. Then grabbed a pill bottle off the counter that had... benadryl in it. Had to tell the guy to leave.
As for the rental, I discussed that with my appraiser. He told me what he's going to do is reimburse me for the full contracted daily rate ($25/day), times 13 days (his estimate of how long the claim process started until I should have cash in my pocket - Friday). So $325. I've extended the rental for 3 more days for a whopping $12 and change, so for a week and a half the rental has only cost me about... $205 or so. He told me to use the excess toward my deductible. They've been very fair and open with me, the process is just pretty slow since I'm working with people in multiple states and it's a small, but well established company. The local adjuster I've worked with is local, when I got sent back to the guy in California I told him "You really need to keep this guy, he's great". Turns out the local guy has been with the company for close to 20 years and the guy in Cali said he's one of his favorite coworkers.
I'm also raising my daily contracted rental rate to the maximum after this, shouldn't cost more than a few extra bucks a month.
I feel they also gave me an extremely fair value for the car - if anything, they overvalued it a little. I even mentioned (stupidly) to my adjuster that the value seemed a bit on the high side, he said that before the damage, the paint was like new, I had just done the timing belt/water pump, valve cover gasket, cam seals, front main seal, had fairly new tires (under 8k miles), and he took into account that while the brakes were shot and had just started grinding, I had receipts for new pads that hadn't yet gone on. Had a newish aftermarket exhaust that I got for free (Greddy2 catback, traded the stock one for it, immediately decided I hated the aftermarket, but never put a stock one back on). Interior was so so - original upholstery, everything on the car worked like it just rolled out of the factory including the a/c and power options, but no floormats and the drivers seat was stained (but nothing torn). We discussed what I paid for it and how long I owned it, he said I must have blindsided the dealer I got it from and said it had way, way below average mileages and was in better than average condition for its age. Plus it's very difficult to find a decently optioned Accord of that vintage with a manual transmission.
I do admit I got a damn good deal when I bought the car 4 years ago, especially considering I got it from a Honda dealer. Wasn't CPO or anything, but I walked out that dealer feeling like I just raped the salesguy (got $2k off of their sticker price and even got them below their "absolute bottom line" price, later found out they just barely turned a profit on it from a family member that works with the guy).
Overall, the whole experience with the apartments and vandalism has sucked, but the adjusters I worked with made it as painless as possible. It's a 2001 Honda Accord LX sedan, which, if it was automatic, is the textbook definition of "most common car in the world" around here right down to the color. Since it was manual that made it a lot harder to easily replace. Just rolled over 116k miles, got it 4 years ago with 82k, and it was the most dependable, reliable, boring car I've ever owned. Don't want to discuss what I paid for it or what I'm supposed to get until the cash is in the bank for obvious reasons though.
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