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Michael Carliner Quotes
«Although there's no official assessment yet, I think the number of housing units destroyed is going to dwarf any previous disaster. Hurricane Andrew was estimated at 28,000 homes destroyed. The number of homes that are flooded now, that are probably beyond repair, is probably much larger. There are 200,000 homes in New Orleans alone.»
Author: Michael Carliner
«With clean water, if you submerge a house for a week, it's not going to be livable anymore. It would be very difficult to get those contaminants out of the houses.»
Author: Michael Carliner
«It's not unusual when you first start to see the beginnings of a rate increase, that the immediate effect is an acceleration of sales as people try to lock in the lower rates,»
Author: Michael Carliner
«In most hurricanes, you're talking about wind damage, lost roofs -- that kind of thing. Flooding is much more insidious. Structures are still standing, but there are devastating effects. With the dirty water, it may never be possible to repair it. You'll have to rebuild, or at least gut it.»
Author: Michael Carliner
«[Only after that will contractors turn to rebuilding, and] that takes a long time, ... A lot of people who get insurance money for rebuilding don't do so -- they just move someplace else.»
Author: Michael Carliner
«It's not so much profiteering as panic buying out of fear there will be shortages later on.»
Author: Michael Carliner
«In a way we've outsourced building speculation.»
Author: Michael Carliner
«We had expected to see a slowdown and this confirms it.»
Author: Michael Carliner
«We had expected to see a slowdown, and this confirms it.»
Author: Michael Carliner
«Excluding homes that haven't been started, the months' supply is historically low.»
Author: Michael Carliner