such a deal!
Looking to own a piece of history — or just want someplace to put those pesky in-laws when they show up unexpectedly? The General Services Administration has a deal for you! The government agency is selling off thousands of
FEMA trailers leftover from the Hurricane Katrina period at rock-bottom prices. Of course, as with any second-hand product, these come with some caveats. In this case, it's a warning that "the government may not have tested all of these units for formaldehyde."
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flood insurance
Reader Nate and his wife recently bought their dream home, which they admit is more modest than most people's dream homes, for $60,000. During closing, they wrote in their offer "that if the home was found to be in a flood plane we withdrew our offer," but were happy to find out that the house was, in fact, not in a flood plain. That is, until Chase, decided that their house
was in a flood plain after all and is requiring $185,000 in flood insurance.
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out of the ashes
The small cottages designed to replace
FEMA trailers after Hurricane Katrina are popular, so popular that Lowe's has decided to offer them in their stores.
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government waste
FEMA has some used trailers (41,000 of them) to sell and so far, they've been netting "about 40 cents on each dollar spent by taxpayers," according to the Washington Post.
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Consumerist
salmonella peanut butter
FEMA employees posed as independent reporters in a fake and staged news conference to ask softball questions of the agency's response to the California wildfires. [MSNBC]
