FEMA is here to help and may save your day in the early days but be careful for your long term recovery.

FEMA remote inspectors omitted the Substantial Damage Estimate process for Manufactured homes.

Thousands of manufactured home owners were not screened properly during the FEMA application process to determine if their manufactured home was worth repairing or if the home sustained more than 50 percent in damages compared to the homes market value.

By Murray Wennerlund published 12-27-2022 updated 1-3-2023
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How to collect the data needed for your Manufactured Home Substantial Damage Estimate report.

You will need information from Flood Insurance Rate Maps, Topographical Maps, Certificates of Elevation, Wind zones, local building codes, property tax information, floodplain managers contact, declared disaster number, disaster assistance ID, DMV title.

By Murray Wennerlund published 1-2-2023 updated 1-3-2023
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How to complete your Manufactured Home Substantial Damage Estimate.

Step 2 is to enter the correct data the first time and with your FEMA NFIP Community Rating System Floodplain Managers in mind. You dont want them to reject your file for missing data. The data is collected and reviewed by the person creating the report.

By Murray Wennerlund published 1-10-2023 updated 1-10-2023
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Livingston Parish RE: Notification of Substantial Damage and NFIP Non-Compliance

FEMA Substantial Damage notice dated April 19, 2021 and sent by the Livingston Parish LOHSEP to homeowners. It is estimated that more than 3,800 homeowners have been requested to follow the FEMA mitigation policies that should have been processed in 2016

By Murray Wennerlund published 4-23-2021 updated 12-31-2021
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What you will find on your substantial damage letter generated by FEMA Substantial Damage Estimator software

A detailed look at what you will find on your FEMA Substantial Damage Estimator SDE output. For more details about each section I recommend that you read the SDE 3.0 User Manual and Field Workbook published by FEMA for the SDE software.

By Murray Wennerlund published 5-2-2021 updated 5-2-2021
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