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I wrote a very positive article about the responses to Katrina for http://ezinearticles.com
Entitled “New Orleans My Home - Katrina My Nightmare” and another article “Katrina What It Is Like To Be An Evacuee” In both articles I endeavored to stay on the upside and we aren’t complaining to anyone but today was the straw that broke…etc

Everyone it seems, has an answer for who is to blame or who to call for help or how to deal with your insurance company. But I wonder if anybody is really asking the right questions! As evacuees, as victims of Katrina we have our own set of questions. They are not a product of bitterness but of pure frustration and at times exhaustion. Anyone may answer these questions since the people or agencies we are dealing with have not…so far.

Here is just a short list of our questions. The long list would overwhelm you.

Why has my wife been dialing Red Cross for five days only to hear someone say she should keep trying but all the lines are busy. Then a recording says we are going to hang up now, and they do!

Where are the 40,000 volunteers said to be helping the Red Cross when we call them?

What does Red Cross do exactly with the billions of dollars it collects in times like these? Have they thought of contacting some of the giant telecommunications companies that boast so often about their ability to connect the whole world? But would these giant companies actually answer the phone?

Has anyone of the agencies helping people in shelters considered that giving people food, water and a blow up mattress for the next few months contributes nothing to their starting a new life.

Do insurance companies that are already trying to find ways out of paying for losses have a legal right to do this? Is it decent? Is it moral? If they file for bankruptcy do they know that under the new bankruptcy laws they must still pay after they re-organize? Would they, or the banks let us pay after we re-organize or would the insurance cancellation warnings come in the mail as usual?

Do the national guard soldiers that were standing by as we entered our neighborhood assuring us that all was safe and secure realize that it is a little to late for safe and secure? Does a pile of rubble need to be secured?

Have all the warnings about those who are committing fraud when it pertains to being a legitimate Red Cross site or collection point sufficiently scared away what might amount to thousands of donors. What ever happened to check it, then give. Is “it might be fraudulent” the new excuse for indifference.

Is there something wrong with helping an individual or a family. Is it just as conscience soothing to dump big checks into big organizations as to actually help a real person, one with a name and not just a social security number.

Does FEMA really expect people to return from places they have gone to for refuge, some that are hundreds or thousands of miles away from the Gulf coast area to keep an appointment with them to see their house? Is there even a child in America that doesn’t know that these houses have been photographed sitting in ten feet of water for the past ten days? Could one of these children please call FEMA and let them know? Oh, I forgot it took my wife over five hundred attempts to reach FEMA before she got through. The result is now the familiar “hurry up and wait.”

Will America with its worldwide reputation for its short attention span and its penchant for the pop culture, hottest item, latest news mentality really carry this thing through. Will interest wane before the water is dry?

President Bush said, “New Orleans will rise again.” But infrastructure and Superdomes do not a city make. A city is people. How can we help people? How do you help people?

Rev Bresciani has written many articles over the past thirty years in such periodicals as Guideposts and Catholic Digest. He is the author of two books available on Amazon.com, Alibris, Barnes and Noble and many other places. Rev Bresciani wrote “Hook Line and Sinker or what has Your Church Been Teaching You,” publisher, PublishAmerica of Baltimore MD. He also wrote a book published by Xulon Press entitled “An American Prophet and His Message, Questions and Answers on the Second Coming of Christ.” His book is now being heralded as the clearest book on the subject of the second coming of Christ since Hal Lindsey’s “Late Great Planet Earth” Rev Bresciani’s website is,

http://americanprophet.org

Acquiring and offering houses on a public auction should be straightforward and gainful for both sellers and buyers. Locate a public auction though is not trouble-free process. Details with reference to the assets for sale on auctions can be read in the regional or national press, or on UK property site. Estate agencies often possess facts of properties to be sold by auction too. However a system of finding public auctions is to note down the contact numbers of any “Sale by Auction” sign posts.

There’s generally a price to be on the auctioneers mailing catalogue and for obtaining an index complete of photographs and details with reference to the estates. Free of charge directories are commonly inadequate.

You’ve only got three or four weeks to understand what’s available on at sale, so act as rapidly as possible.

The type of house largely sold are the one-offs that property agencies consider tricky to evaluate or to sell, although they have improvement promises.

Auctions are also exciting for the repossession lands put for sale by credit lenders, which typically are good bargain and hold low reserve prices. Before the day of the public auction pay a visit and possess a glimpse at the property. Examine the immediate area and, essential, set up with your property expert to complete the basic exploration - like an official investigation and a professional valuation.

It’s clever to set up your budget, and very vital, set up the economics to leave a in general 10 percent on the auction day, and the residual 90 % in the following 28 days afterwards. If your bid is successful, you will pay in advance the 10 per cent to the auctioneer as soon as possible and the seller’s representative will countersign the Memorandum of Agreement. Penalties for failure to meet the payment commitment are acute.

Take into account that if you don’t make the highest bid you will throw away grand part of the money you have spent on the inspection plus the legal price, but it is worth informing the mediator of the sum you could be ready to spend for a specific home that has been withdrawn; who knows, in most of the cases the vendor may be keen to think your bid.

The auction accord is corresponding to swap of agreements in the usual sale by private negotiation. This also indicates that the buyer will not be rejected by higher offers and the vendor is not nervous of last-minute fee renegotiations. If you are searching for overseas bargains, find a rapidly increasing choice of properties for sale France on the online property market.