Generate cash flow by taking advantage of the South Carolina Safe Home Program as featured in Carolina Homes and Interiors magazine!
To date, 750 grants totaling over $4 million dollars have been awarded to homeowners taking advantage of the South Carolina Safe Home Program! Are you getting your fair share of this money?
Take advantage of this multi-million dollar opportunity for inspectors and contractors by advertising in Carolina Homes and Interiors magazine! The next issue of Carolina Homes and Interiors magazine/web site will feature an article explaining the South Carolina Safe Home program, and how South Carolina homeowners can save money on their home repairs and homeowners insurance.
This is your opportunity to showcase your business in the South Carolina Safe Home Service Directory which will be published along with the Safe Home Program article in print and online. The rates are affordable, and your ad will position your company to take advantage of this outstanding opportunity to generate new business and cash flow!
I've included details on the Safe Home program below for your convenience.
I've also attached our rate card to explain our readership, rates and deadline for our next issue. I'll take the liberty to follow-up with you this week to discuss your options.
Joel Cardwell
General Sales Manager
Carolina Homes and Interiors
843.881.1481 x16
Joel.Cardwell59@gmail.com
The South Carolina Safe Home Program
The South Carolina Department of Insurance has implemented an effective and efficient program designed to address and minimize hurricane wind damage in coastal areas. The SC Safe Home Grant Program was established by the state legislature’s 2007 Omnibus Coastal Property Insurance Reform Act, in response to rising insurance premium costs and the diminishing availability of insurance for coastal properties.
The Coastal Act provides for Catastrophe Savings Accounts, insurance rate and premium discounts, and tax incentives to homeowners for retrofitting their property to withstand and resist wind damage. The bill also entitles SC Safe Home to apply for FEMA grants. The program enables homeowners to prepare today for the certainty of a major storm by anticipating the effects of nature and protecting property rather than rebuilding after catastrophic loss.
To date, SC Safe Home has awarded more than 750 grants, totaling $4 million, to qualifying homeowners through matching and non-matching grants of up to $5,000 each. SC Safe Home helps individual homeowners help themselves by matching, dollar-for-dollar, the costs of making their property more resistant to hurricane and wind damage. A comparatively small financial investment that will, in time, represent a savings of billions of dollars in insurance claims and property repair.
Applicants are eligible for grant consideration following a thorough wind resistance inspection of their owner-occupied, single-family home. Low-income applicants meeting the eligibility requirements can be awarded grant funds up to $5,000 and are not required to provide a matching amount to receive the grant.
Among the positive results of preparation through SC Safe Home are a stronger, more resilient coastal infrastructure with buildings designed to survive, less demand for federal support after the storm, a successful model for other states to follow, and far-reaching economic benefits for the entire region, including the creation of jobs for contractors.
These simple, cost-effective wind protection measures include:
* Retrofitting an existing roof with stronger roof-deck attachment; secondary water barriers; hurricane-resistant, wind-rated covering materials; installing metal tie-down straps and gable end braces.
* Addressing problems with weakened trusses, studs and other structural components.
* Opening protection, such as installing storm shutters to protect and secure windows, and upgrading exterior doors.
* Installing support braces or hurricane-rated garage doors.
* Repair or replacement of manufactured home piers, anchors and tie-down straps.
• And numerous mitigation techniques as approved by the Advisory Committee appointed to advise and assist in administering the SC Safe Home program. |