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By Tyler Treadway
Fort Pierce Tribune
March 17, 2005
FORT PIERCE · Many homeowners are having trouble getting contractors to replace their hurricane-damaged roofs, and when they find someone, the price is as high as the sky they can see through rips in their blue tarps.
But Rimmon Juerakhan doesn't have either problem. He's getting a new roof on his Fort Pierce home without even asking, and he's not paying a cent.
Juerakhan is on the lucky end of a misread street number.
A crew from Federal Construction Co. of Miami was supposed to repair Dave Miller's roof at 1103 Colonial Road, but they went to work on Juerakhan's roof at 1003 Colonial instead.
Juerakhan was curious when a load of tar paper and shingles was dropped in his driveway the night of March 9. As he left home the next morning, he noticed the packing label stated they were meant for 1103 Colonial, and figured the roofers would realize their mistake before starting work.
But when he returned home that afternoon, workers had already stripped the roof off his house.
"I told the foreman that they had the wrong house," Juerakhan recalled.
"It was a mistake on our part," Jarvis Osorio, owner of Federal Construction, said Monday.
"We were off by one number, and by the time anyone noticed, we had the whole roof stripped off. Our guys are real fast. A lot of time the media give roofers a bad name, but we're not here to rip off people."
Juerakhan said that after a bit of negotiating, "They said they'd do it for nothing."
Turns out Juerakhan's house did need a new roof and he had already gotten estimates of $7,000 to $9,000 for the job.
"I've just been waiting on the insurance money," he said. "Now I can use the money I was going to put into my roof into fixing other hurricane damage to my house."
Meanwhile, Federal Construction crews have tar-papered the roofs at both Juerakhan's house and Miller's house, and are awaiting a city inspection before installing the shingles. Both were told their roofs should be finished by the end of the week.
"They got to my house a day late, but that's no biggie to me," Miller said.
"I'm a wait-and-see kind of guy; I'll wait and see how this all turns out, but so far everything seems OK." Juerakhan feels the same.
"I won't know for sure until the roof is done."
<cite>South Florida Sun-Sentinel</cite>
Fort Pierce Tribune
March 17, 2005
FORT PIERCE · Many homeowners are having trouble getting contractors to replace their hurricane-damaged roofs, and when they find someone, the price is as high as the sky they can see through rips in their blue tarps.
But Rimmon Juerakhan doesn't have either problem. He's getting a new roof on his Fort Pierce home without even asking, and he's not paying a cent.
Juerakhan is on the lucky end of a misread street number.
A crew from Federal Construction Co. of Miami was supposed to repair Dave Miller's roof at 1103 Colonial Road, but they went to work on Juerakhan's roof at 1003 Colonial instead.
Juerakhan was curious when a load of tar paper and shingles was dropped in his driveway the night of March 9. As he left home the next morning, he noticed the packing label stated they were meant for 1103 Colonial, and figured the roofers would realize their mistake before starting work.
But when he returned home that afternoon, workers had already stripped the roof off his house.
"I told the foreman that they had the wrong house," Juerakhan recalled.
"It was a mistake on our part," Jarvis Osorio, owner of Federal Construction, said Monday.
"We were off by one number, and by the time anyone noticed, we had the whole roof stripped off. Our guys are real fast. A lot of time the media give roofers a bad name, but we're not here to rip off people."
Juerakhan said that after a bit of negotiating, "They said they'd do it for nothing."
Turns out Juerakhan's house did need a new roof and he had already gotten estimates of $7,000 to $9,000 for the job.
"I've just been waiting on the insurance money," he said. "Now I can use the money I was going to put into my roof into fixing other hurricane damage to my house."
Meanwhile, Federal Construction crews have tar-papered the roofs at both Juerakhan's house and Miller's house, and are awaiting a city inspection before installing the shingles. Both were told their roofs should be finished by the end of the week.
"They got to my house a day late, but that's no biggie to me," Miller said.
"I'm a wait-and-see kind of guy; I'll wait and see how this all turns out, but so far everything seems OK." Juerakhan feels the same.
"I won't know for sure until the roof is done."
<cite>South Florida Sun-Sentinel</cite>