A SIGN OF THE TIMES

By Bob Walsh

 

 

The huge home builder K&B has just announced a new development in Escondido, CA.  The $1 million + homes are all fire resistant.  This encompasses both the basic design of the house and the materials used as well as the layout and components of the landscaping and hardscape.  In many places in CA it is now virtually impossible, and very expensive, to get fire insurance which means it is difficult to impossible to get a mortgage.  This is I believe a notion whose time has come, especially in CA. 

Just as an aside, ABC news has just done a huge expose on the elected State Insurance Commissioner in CA.  He seems to spend a LOT of time traveling out of state and even out of the country on the taxpayers dime while missing a LOT of meetings with legislative committees about the MAJOR problems in the insurance market in the state.  It must be nice to be an elected official.  Who don't have to give a shit about the peons.