Disaster Recovery Handbook and Household Inventory Guide : How to Recount and Recover from Your Losses after a Fire, Flood, Earthquake, Hurricane, or Tornado

The Disaster Recovery Handbook and Household Inventory Guide, affectionately known as "the little yellow book" has guided thousands of disaster survivors through the process of recovering from the loss of their homes. Written by survivors for survivors, along with expert advice from trusted consumer advocates and personal finance professionals. The book includes:First steps and sources of help on the road to disaster recovery, advice on using tax rules specially designed for loss victims, step-by-step guidelines for optimizing insurance claim recovery, tips for reconstructing the contents of a destroyed home, including detailed lists of items commonly found in households and how to find the right professional help.

Property owners need all the help they can get to recover fair insurance claim settlements after major losses. The deck is stacked against them. This book will help even the odds. --J. Robert Hunter, Director of Insurance, Consumer Federation of America, Former Federal Insurance Administrator and Texas Insurance Commissioner

The Disaster Recovery Handbook is full of useful and clearly written tips from seasoned disaster recovery veterans who have distilled the best lessons they learned so future disaster survivors need not re-invent the wheel. --John Garamendi, Two-Term Insurance Commissioner, former California Senate Majority Leader, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior under President Bill Clinton

When a firestorm destroyed our home and all our possessions in 1993, we were overwhelmed at learning our insurance company required us to list every item we lost. Each pen, hammer, and shirt had to be itemized! To forget an item was to forfeit a portion of our claim. How could we possibly remember everything? Fortunately, my wife and I received a copy of a little yellow book called The Household Inventory Guide. The memory-jogger provided us with the information we needed to complete our lengthy contents list. Now, with these updated lists and practical recovery aid chapters, disaster survivors have a complete package to guide them through their recovery. --Fred Sharman, Director, 2003 Laguna Relief