Now, a federal regulation might cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. The FEMA 50% rule is catching some homeowners who ...

Pete Beach lives in a community where many homeowners suffered substantial damage ... your home is $200,000 under FEMA’s 50% rule, you could sustain $100,000 in damage and be fine.

and that damage is more than half of your home’s value –fifty percent– you’ve just triggered FEMA’s 50 Percent Rule. Now, you can’t simply repair your house to how it was before.

(WFLA) — U.S. Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna is fighting for FEMA to waive its 50% rule. Rep ... Petersburg knows all too well. “Once we got the substantial damage letter, we actually ended up having ...

The process is taking time because the city has been correcting inaccurate data and mistakes in some of the assessments.

(WFLA) — U.S. Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna is fighting for FEMA to waive its 50% rule ... “Once we got the substantial damage letter, we actually ended up having to send in all of the ...

The Federal Emergency Management ... must follow FEMA rules and make sure homes are not substantially damaged before issuing permits to rebuild them. If a home’s monetary damage is determined ...