Posts by Sofie Bribiesca
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Do all supplementary questions get written up? David was possibly a mere supplementary question around question 9. :)
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sacha,
It was either Ruth Dyson or Lianne Dalziel who mentioned him by name and his probable losses but cant see where that is now. You would be better than me at that though surely? Perhaps you can sort that out, yes? ;)
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Mr Haywood (good day to you sir and your fine family) has made it into Hansard during question time today with thanks to the Labour Party for their line of questions with regard, land value and losses to be incurred.
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If and when possible, NEVER sell the land! In this country land is your investment. The bricks and mortar, not so much. timber is more reliable in NZ as we happily pick up and move that asset. Fact is, the stuff on the land is always disputable on value. The land will always be there even if it's a swamp for some time. No matter. For an example half my parents land was swamp back in the 70's. Yes it was child labour when my parents made me wheelbarrow landfill as punishment for breaking my 1 am curfew. But now, there is a very valuable piece of Remuera north facing hectare that I will inherit 1/4 of one day.And just like fashion, someone will always want it.Another guy I know, spent 9 mil on a waterfront property with a derilect building on it. he didn't care about the building, he liked the view.The land is what has value to the Council. Hang onto it. maybe even consider something selling up cheap in a green zone and rebuild or move your house onto that as soon as is possible. Perhaps other than Brownlee authorised Demolition people can help in moving your house onto that. I'd look there as there must be many begrudging the elitist contracts to certain contractors.
I know it is despairing and depressing but now all the creative types need to think outside the square. First understand the stink sytem/headspace that governs all of this ,then create or find the loophole. This crew is not infallible. We see it all the time and many a person on this here thread is better. :) -
Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to kevyn,
I would certainly look at this option Cantabrians. Bravo Kevyn!
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to webweaver,
I so hope so. I'd love to see that . Could be a very interesting precedent set for future situations. And would your rates be really low without services? I suggest an email off to the Greens for advice. Also, costs wise, we are doing that up north and it is not that expensive to implement.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to BenWilson,
Sad thing (for me always) Ben is that it comes right back down to the mindset that has enveloped the world .The fact is, it's all about the money.Unfortunately it's always the little players in the casino that get stung. Like pawns in the chess game.Dispensable. The problem in Christchurch now is who's got stung. Next up is those who profit from this traumatic event.It ain't gonna be just the reinsurers.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Given the enormous success of ACC, in spite of it’s many flaws and absurdities it has done a much better job of compensating people for accident and injury than any private system in the world.
And given the evolving disaster that is private insurance in CHCH.
Then surely there is a strong case for a government run insurance scheme in New Zealand.
Bear in mind….
Tower was government owned originally
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National are paving the way to privatise ACC. Just ask Nick Smith about that!Sorry Ian, see and read, you got there first!
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Arbor1,
Whilst I think your argument is fair and possibly worth pursuing, after watching the leaky home saga up this end of the long white cloud, these corporations and I include the Council and the Government here have shown the spiralling hole one has to be prepared to deal with, in order to be apeased. My one fear is that, that hole must be lined with gold wrapped in what would become bought silence, which at the end of the day won't help the situation as a whole which this needs to be.Shitty situation.