Our final paperwork from insurance got here for us to sign. It has a cost breakdown that seems to be exclusive of the construction/rebuild work. They spent over $33,000 on rent for our temporary furnished apartment, which kind of blows my mind. They paid the condo corporation $10,000 for something unspecified, and $35,00 to us and a disaster ( Read more... )

Stuff from yesterday:

I went to the dog park with the intent of walking for an hour while Ella ran around, but the whole place was like walking through a living cloud of mosquitoes. Someone even gave me some bug spray and they were *still* getting me. Ugh. I left after about 10 minutes.

In the evening, I unexpectedly smelled a burning-related smell ( Read more... )

It's not as wonderful a thing as our other news today, but the replacement CD changer I bought arrived in the mail today. I couldn't find any CDs in it; Miriam thinks maybe the seller noticed them while packing it and took them out. I was only able to plug it into my computer to test at first, since we didn't have an amp, but as I suspected, it ( Read more... )

Someone in Fenelon Falls, Ontario is selling a serviced Marantz 2270 with the original optional wooden cabinet for $2175 CAD, pick-up only. I did the math and it would cost $828 in gas to get there and back, which makes it totally unreasonable. I thought it might be, but it's really disappointing to see the numbers. I really miss long road trips. I ( Read more... )

Insurance has approved our proposed alternates for the stereo, the turntable, and the monitor Miriam was borrowing from work. We approved the new assessment report, so the next thing is that we'll get a check for the "assessed cash value" (ACV) of the items. After we buy replacements and send receipts, we are further reimbursed up to, at maximum, ( Read more... )

Okay, I sent our response to insurance! Now we wait again. Thanks to those who offered their input! Now it's time for the metaphorical 3-dimensional chess portion of the waiting process.

We weren't sure if we should send our response to the person at the third-party organization that did the assessment of our list of items. The adjuster said that to ( Read more... )

I'm trying to find a suitable replacement to give insurance for a unreasonably nice monitor Miriam was borrowing from work and the thing is made of pure unobtanium and there isn't anything much like it either. It was still listed on the Apple store for something like $800 CAD when we first filled out the list, but it's gone now. From there and ( Read more... )

If anyone is up to it and has time, I would really appreciate comments on the below. Specifically, I'd like to make it as simple, easy-to-understand, and non-confrontational as possible. Thank you!

Please forgive the formatting; it's much better as a PDF.

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Item 1: Your proposed replacement of a Marantz 2270 receiver with a Marantz ( Read more... )

I think I might be done with my argument for the replacement for my receiver! Looking at integrated amplifiers today instead of receivers led me to items with much smaller feature sets that are closer to my 2270. This makes sense because receivers were always meant as an "all-in-one" solution to replace separate components, and there are a lot more ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about this language in the insurance contract. In fact, I asked my brother, who was a lawyer but is no longer practicing law, if he has time to talk to me about this stuff because I'm really curious.

"We will not pay for increased costs that result when you cannot repair or replace your property because material or parts are ( Read more... )