{"id":34387,"date":"2023-05-18T16:27:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T20:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/?p=34387"},"modified":"2024-02-10T04:30:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T09:30:36","slug":"is-citizens-property-insurance-in-the-roof-tile-salvage-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/blog\/is-citizens-property-insurance-in-the-roof-tile-salvage-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Citizens Property Insurance in the Roof Tile Salvage Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>An appraisal of a disputed roof loss resulted in Citizens Property Insurance Company sending a salvage letter stating the following:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5541-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34390 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5541-1-1024x368.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5541-1-1024x368.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5541-1-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5541-1-768x276.png 768w, https:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5541-1.png 1239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Is Citizens now in the business of trying to harvest used roof tiles from damaged roofs and place them onto roofs of other policyholders? The above photo shows how well harvesting tiles works. It is a disaster for the policyholder and results in lower-valued structures that actually lower the value of entire communities. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Do the claims executives at these \u201cus versus our customer\u201d insurance companies have any empathy for their customers? Do they follow anything close to the Golden Rule most of us learned as children? Mandating placing used roof tiles on another structure is crazy. It does not work.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Just when you think you have seen it all from the slow and underpaying insurance claims industry, these geniuses think up another way to have customers lose faith in it.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>An Afternoon Thought\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong><em>The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer&#8217;s place.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>\u2014Orison Swett Marden<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An appraisal of a disputed roof loss resulted in Citizens Property Insurance Company sending a salvage letter stating the following:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":34389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122,4,47],"class_list":["post-34387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-citizens-property-insurance-corporation","tag-insurance","tag-roof-damage"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is Citizens Property Insurance in the Roof Tile Salvage Business? 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