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[quote=Anonymous]We live on the top two floors of a condo. We are responsible for damage inside our unit and the HOA is responsible for the outside. We learned last night (thanks to Sandy) that our roof is in desperate need of replacement. We had water pouring through the drywall in our ceiling and coming out of the seams in our glass patio door. We had similar damage to the ceiling over our bay window after the derecho, which the HOA supposedly fixed. After Sandy though, the fixed area leaked 10 times worse than it did in the derecho and I think the fix was just a crappy patch. The HOA is planning on replacing the rooftop deck roof, but not for two years.

So, I don't know if the condo board will decide to just go ahead with roof replacement or if they'll try to patch us up again just to get us through the next two years. I do know that we definitely need to replace that glass door and the floors around it, which sustained heavy water damage. The glass door opens onto the roof that caused all the leaking. (We live in a two story condo and the roof problems are from a flat, rooftop deck area. The glass doors open to the deck.)  I just don't know if it's worth it to do these things before the roof is fixed. If there are leaks in the roof, won't replacing the glass doors just make them worse? OTOH, the leaks in the glass doors caused all the damage to the wood floors near them and we can't fix the floors until those get fixed.

Also, has anyone ever used their homeowners insurance? Any advice there?

This was our first hurricane so I really am out of my depth here. TIA.

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