{"id":5673,"date":"2015-08-05T05:29:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T09:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2015-08-05T00:41:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T04:41:48","slug":"letters-ordering-home-elevations-repairs-received-by-some-brick-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/08\/letters-ordering-home-elevations-repairs-received-by-some-brick-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters Ordering Home Elevations, Repairs Received by Some Brick Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A house being raised following Superstorm Sandy damage. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Brick residents whose homes were considered substantially damaged \u2013 meaning damage eclipsed half of their home\u2019s value \u2013 in Superstorm Sandy have been receiving letters ordering them to bring their homes into compliance by elevating the structure, however officials say there are other options.<\/p>\n

One resident who contacted Shorebeat said she feared losing her home since she could not afford to raise it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to be out on the street,\u201d she said, asking that her name be withheld from publication.<\/p>\n

The reality is that elevating a home is just one way to bring it into compliance. After the storm, those whose homes were substantially damaged were given three years to either repair their homes or elevate them to bring them into compliance with state laws. With the three-year anniversary of Sandy coming up, some of those homeowners have never submitted documentation to town hall indicating that repairs were made, thus proving their home was no longer substantially damaged, said Joanne Bergin, the township\u2019s business administrator.<\/p>\n

Homeowners were granted temporary, three year certificates of occupancy allowing them to remain in their homes while repairs were being made.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state is saying to us \u2026 you need to be following up on those substantially damaged properties that have not come in and gotten permits to elevate or brought in receipts, because they\u2019re just kind of out there in this void,\u201d Bergin said.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s edict prompted the township to send out letters to property owners who have not been in touch with the town since their homes were declared substantially damaged. But township officials have also been worried that homeowners are selling homes that were substantially damaged without notifying the buyer.<\/p>\n

Homeowners from numerous neighborhoods in town have reported receiving the letters, from those in lagoon neighborhoods to residents of the Seaview Village senior citizen community.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur concern is that people are selling these properties and not telling the buyers that the properties are substantially damaged,\u201d said Bergin.<\/p>\n

Elevating a home is one way to bring it into compliance, but so is submitting receipts that prove damage from the storm has been repaired, Bergin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have to bring in receipts and say, \u2018I did all these repairs, let\u2019s sit and do the math,\u2019 said Bergin. \u201cThe options are very specific to what works best for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brick residents whose homes were considered substantially damaged \u2013 meaning damage eclipsed half of their home\u2019s value \u2013 in Superstorm Sandy have been receiving letters ordering them to bring their homes into compliance by elevating the structure, however officials say there are other options. One resident who contacted Shorebeat said she feared losing her home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[24,1563,1562,66],"class_list":["post-5673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-superstorm-hurricane-sandy","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-house-raising","tag-substantially-damaged-homes","tag-superstorm-sandy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0439.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1tv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}