Sunday, June 3, 2012

Keeping the Insurance Check From a Hail Damaged Roof

Don't Replace Your Hail Damaged Roof - Keep Your Insurance Check For Hail damage - If you have received an insurance check to replace a hail damaged roof, you may wish to cash the check and keep the proceeds due to a job loss, financial hardship or you even have other investment opportunities that you would like to spend the money on.  Well this blog is here to tell you that keeping that insurance check might be a good idea.  I am a landlord and live in the mid-west and my properties have been through numerous hail storms.   The truth is that a roofing company can find damage on most roofs and claim it is hail.  When they meet the insurance adjuster to state their case, the insurance adjuster usually pays out for marketing reasons, not for roof damage reasons.  Often, the insurance adjuster won't even get on the roof if a roofer from a roofing company claims their is hail damage.  Most damage claimed to be hail damage is not going to effect your structure negatively due to the simple fact that the shingles overlap.  In the unlikely event that rain ever leaks through a "hail dimple" after many years, there is a 99.5% chance that it will leak onto the shingle underneath it which will protect the house from water damage.

In my years as a landlord, I have kept over 20 insurance checks and up to 20+ years later the roofs didn't leak.  I eventually replaced the roofs because they got old and looked bad which had nothing to do with hail.
  
So unless you had softball sized hail which caused massive dimples and blisters that you can see from the ground, then keep your insurance check from hail damage.  Your better off  investing the insurance check and getting years more life out of your current roof and then replacing it down the road with the insurance check money you kept and invested.. hopefully having much interest in addition.

To keep your insurance check from a hail storm, YOU ALWAYS WANT TO CALL A ROOFING COMPANY FIRST who will then meet the insurance adjuster.  Most roofing companies will give FREE ESTIMATES.  If you feel guilty about wasting a roofers time by getting a free roof estimate while you have no intention of actually replacing the roof, then tell him he can put one of his roofing signs in your yard for a few weeks.  Most roofers will jump at this opportunity for advertising.   Do not call the insurance company first! If you call the insurance company first, the adjuster will get on the roof and might not be convinced of hail damage.  If you call the insurance adjuster first and you do have hail damage, they often will want to only replace parts of the roof which will yield you a smaller insurance check.   If the roofer from the roofing company is there with the adjuster, he/she can argue that your whole roof needs to be replaced because your current shingles won't match  new shingles or that your current shingle is no longer made etc...  Your best chance at getting a check for replacing the whole roof is by calling a roofing company first and let him call the insurance adjuster.

Also, your roofer can point out dings in gutters, air conditioners, decks, screens, hot tubs and covers etc...to the insurance adjuster.

Once the roofer meets the adjuster to agree on and point out damages, then the insurance company sends you a check.  Then simply keep the check and tell the roofer that you are going to wait to replace the roof.   Some insurance companies might require 3 estimates from 3 different roofing companies.

In rare instances like hail storms in a few parts of St. Louis, Missouri, Maryland Heights, Missouri, Bridgeton, Missouri, Florissant, Missouri, St. Charles, Missouri,  St. Peters, Missouri, O'fallon, Missouri there was huge hail large enough to do real serious damage to shingles and even the plywood.  In these instances fix your roof immediately.  This post is refering to those pea sized hail . 

What if I don't replace my hail damaged roof?   Don't worry


23 comments:

  1. Hail damage is a difficult one to spot. Most of the time, you won’t notice the effects of the hail damage once it has already happened. The severity of hail damage is sometimes dependent on the orientation of the angles of your roof. You might want to have it oriented in such a way that hail strikes would feel like glancing blows rather than direct hits. It’s good that you opted to go and get an expert, a roofing contractor, to check your roof for hail damage. A lot of roofing contractors here offer excellent roof repair services for hail damage.

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  3. It is also important to take photos of damaged roofs, soffits, siding, doors, windows, etc. If you’re unable to capture pictures, search for news photos of the hail storm that fell in your area online. You can show these documents to your insurance agent together with the report from the roofing contractor. Thanks for the very informative piece!

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  4. It’s really a must to let the experts deal your roofing problems. By doing so, you can tell if your roof needs further renovation. And it may be easier for you to get the approval from your insurance company since your contractor will confirm the conditions of your roof.

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  5. Choose good companies will easily be able to determine if your roof has experienced hail hits and if your roof has the minimum required by most insurance carriers to qualify for a claim. A knowledgeable roofing contractor will be able to assess your roof and show you photographs of roof damage.

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  7. Yikes, I didn't realize that failing to replace your roof could have such negative consequences. We had some hail damage from a bit ago but I have been trying to put off the repairs for as long as possible. We are a little tight on money right now. Looking at it now though, it might be a ton more expensive to replace if we don't repair it now.
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  12. If you were approached unexpected by a roof contractor, who filed for you and also had you sign something, ate you obligated to work with that roofer? Because now that I've done some homework, I'd like to find a well known company for any repairs and I'm wondering if I can get out of any contact since no work has been done and no materials purchased etc. Thanks for any advice

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  13. If you were approached unexpected by a roof contractor, who filed for you and also had you sign something, ate you obligated to work with that roofer? Because now that I've done some homework, I'd like to find a well known company for any repairs and I'm wondering if I can get out of any contact since no work has been done and no materials purchased etc. Thanks for any advice

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  15. I'll have to think this over. I do know that the guys at digital roofing innovations told me this was illegal. Not sure what to believe. Here in Decatur, Alabama we don't see much hail.

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  16. It is also insurance fraud and a felony to keep that check

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  17. The writer of this article is a con man. Conning honest hard working men and women out of their time and expertise. The writer is also wrong in his assumption that the adjuster won't inspect the roof of you have a contractor. There is also the issue of acv & rcv. A homeowner with a replacement value policy will lose the recoverable depreciation by not getting the work done. For an older roof there is no way to invest the first check to make you for that. In summary the writer is a con and wrong on the subject.

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  18. If you dont replace your roof or other property damages that the insurance company paid for, you will not be paid for it again unless its replaced. This is the most absurd article i have ever seen. So, if your roof gets paid for, and you dont replace it and a leak starts.....you will not be paid for the leaking. This guys is a joke

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