[StBernard] Blighted List

[Westley Annis]

try calling your flood insurance carrier or agent to see if you can file for
icc, they will demo the house remove the slab and grade the property if you
can get it done for 30,000. check it out.

Judy	



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>Okay, Now I'm pissed off and I gotta vent. My home has been on the FEMA 

>demolition list for about two months. Knowing that it would take some 

>time for the demolition to commence I also listed the house for sale -

CHEAP.

>About one week ago my realator told me that someone was very interested 

>in purchasing the home, but, he didn't want to buy it while it was on 

>the demolition list. So I made a special trip to the parish and removed 

>the home from the list. While doing so I was advised by parish 

>officials that I could not place it back on the list. SO, with fingers 

>crossed and a St. Joseph statue buried in the lawn I removed my house 

>from the list, hoping to sell it and spur neighborhood revitalization. 

>Well "Murphy's Law" is at work and we have not heard anything from the 

>potential buyer for about four days. We do not intend on rebuilding the 

>home and if all else fails we will sell it to the state through the LRA 

>program. Sell really isn't the correct word, actually "give it to the 

>state" would be a better term. We would receive less that $10.000 

>dollars for the home.

>And now our parish officials are producing a "Blighted List" that most 

>people can't see and they are threatening us.This is too much. If I 

>ever even slightly entertained the notion to rebuild this home it's long

gone.

>Those of you who have risked everything to rebuild should be concerned. 

>The vast majority of the population of this parish are having their 

>worst fears confirmed. Instead of welcoming arms we witness "Catch 22" 

>policies that make the risk far to great. I just don't get it. I've had 

>enough. I miss my friends, but I'm gone for good. I'll do the best I 

>can with the wreckage of my old house, but I'll make my HOME elsewhere.

>May God Bless all of us.

>Butch S.