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Envision Homes offering free consultation and evaluation
The Stonefield Rebuilding Center
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Local resident offers help with construction paperwork
A Westwood resident with twenty four years construction experience has offered her services to verify licensing (validity & in trade they are offering), verify workman's compensation coverage, review contracts, and obtain certificates of insurance, for free. Please contact
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, (phone: (858) 485-1292, fax (619)699-6612) for more information.
Free Tree/Plant Debris pick up
Environmental Services will assist property owners in RB who were impacted by the fires, by picking up private tree and plant debris (only) that they pile up at curbside. The phone number to schedule pick-up is (858) 694-7000. For the county areas, the phone number to call for this type of assistance is 1-877-308-8111.
Erosion Control
The Erosion Control center has closed in RB. A limited number of sandbags are available at Station 33 or you may go to the county's four erosion control centers and pick up filled sand bags there. For more information call 858-485-1292 or log on to www.sandiego.com
Need a dumpster or storage container on the street?
If you need to put a dumpster or storage container on the street, permit applications are NOW (thanks to Brian Maienschein's office and the Tutunjian Family!) available at the Rancho Bernardo Local Assistance Center (LAC) at the Rancho Bernardo Community Park.
TAX REASSESSMENT (Info from Merilee Boyack, Deputy Mayor of Poway):
IF YOU FILE THE CALAMITY CLAIM FORM:
Your tax payment is placed on hold and no penalties will be assessed. Your property will then be reassessed (the form will trigger it -- you don't have to do anything else). The Tax Collector will then send out an adjusted tax bill for you to pay. You then pay that lower amount. When you have a permit to rebuild your house, they are notified. Your property then will be reassessed.
IF YOU BUILD A SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR HOUSE,
your assessment will be the same as it was (with full Prop 13 protection.)
IF YOU BUILD A SMALLER HOME,
it will be the lesser of the previous assessed value or the full market value -- whichever is LESS.
IF YOU BUILD A BIGGER HOME,
you will have the same assessment as you did before PLUS that portion which is bigger is reassessed and added. For example, if you had a 2,000 sq. ft. home and built a 3,000 sq. ft home, you would have the previous assessed value PLUS the assessment on the 1,000 increase.
Bob Pack of Stonefield (a custom home builder) has opened the Stonefield Rebuilding Center
16959 Bernardo Center Drive, Ste. 100 (where the old Charles Schwab offices were located, across from the fire station), 858.487.4400. Ask for Debbie Dorcey or Julie Magner.
This particular builder helped many of the homeowners from the Cedar fire rebuilid homes in Scripps Ranch at a much lower cost per square foot due to the number of homes he was able to build. Many of the Scripps Ranch homeowners realized by joining in the program to rebuild and selecting from 7-10 different plans they had choices to build a semi-custom home at a reasonable price without having to manage the project the entire way. Stonefield has been around for over 3 decades and I have been told a majority of homeowners who chose to go this route in 2003 were really glad they did.
An initial interest meeting was conducted Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007 and they are currently setting appointments with local homeowners to get ideas of what size, style and elevation of homes the owners are interested in building. This will allow them to begin modifying the 7-10 different floor plans used for the 81 homes they built for Cedar Fire victims. I also understand some of the Scripps Ranch homeowners will be opening their homes to those of us affected, on December 2, 2007.
I, like many other homeowners, am still in the exploritory stage and whether a homeowner is interested in rebuilding or not, please pass my name and number onto them. I would be more than happy to provide any information I have or refer them to the proper people to answer their questions.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Smith
12572 Cloudesly Drive
858.676.6117
Team Colby: Homeowner Advocate "providing "relevant and accurate information on how to rebuild your home
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Property Reassessment
You can contact the San Diego County Tax Assessor’s Office and request they reassess your property at 858-505-6262. Their website is arcc.co.san-diego.ca.us and has a whole section devoted to this issue.
McMillin Realty has Floorplans to RB Homes
In the 2007 Firestorm, Jorge Garza, a businessman who is a local owner of City Channel and works in conjunction with the Convention and Visitors Bureau, finds himself rebuilding his life again. His two-story, 4 bedroom home and all his belongings are now reduced to ash. He, like so many of his neighbors in Rancho Bernardo, 4 S Ranch, Poway, Westwood and the surrounding communities, has lost his home. “How do we begin to rebuild? Where do we start?” Garza wondered.
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Contact McMillin Realty at 858-487-2002. Or call Lori Shannon at 619-204-3517
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