A House Caught Fire While being Rehabbed

[Naga A.]

I bought this house last month, and my local partner (working as a project manager) and I (I am an out of state investor) have been working on to rehab it for about three weeks.

We were very close to completing the rehab, and then I got a call from my project manager yesterday that the house was on fire.

We were not completely sure what caused fire, but our HAVC guy flicked the circuit breaker and then all of sudden it caught fire and the fire spread very quickly.

I attach pictures, and the roof and third of the house was burnt down.

I called my insurance company to file a claim yesterday, and we engaged a disaster recovery company to board up the house. We will contact our electrician who is insured to understand the cause of fire.

Obviously, this is my first (hopefully last) experience with fire. Is there anything I can do? I am a buy and hold guy so if the insurance company covers the damages, I would like to keep the property.