Homes are assessed for risks to health, safety, and viability of the home as a long-term asset for the family.
Common services include:
For aesthetic home updates and renovations not critical for health and safety, please instead contact your preferred home remodeling professional.
Homeowners partner with Habitat through partnership hours (volunteer activities based on physical capabilities) and partial repayment (based on an income-based sliding scale).
– Background check will be run.
– County records will be checked to verify that you are
paid up on your property taxes and that you are the
owner on record.
– You may receive a request for more info to clarify
results from these checks.
– If all is clear you will be forwarded on to construction
to schedule an assessment.
– At that point your assessment will be done within 30
days.
– Our Construction Department will be calling to
schedule an assessment.
The Accessor Will…
▪ Review structural damages
▪ May take pictures to document damages
▪ They will not determine eligibility
– Construction department will submit either an
estimated job cost or recommendation to deny to
rebuild within about 2 weeks of assessment.
Be Ready To…
▪ Keep your appointment window (appointments are 30-45 minutes).
▪ Have all pets confined
▪ Identify all damages to assessors
If at any point in the process your project is deemed
ineligible you will receive a letter of denial which will
include referral information to other assistance
agencies.
– This meeting is to discuss Scope of Work, cost of
repairs and repayment plan.
▪ Repayment is based on ability to pay.
▪ If we need you to vacate the property for work to
commence, or entirely or partially remove
belongings, you will be told at this meeting. This
will depend on the extent of the work.
▪ You may choose to take the agreement home to
consider and sign within two weeks.
– Any lump sum payment, insurance or FEMA funds
would need to be remitted at this time or prior to
work commencing. Checks can be made payable to
Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity.
– Partnership Hours plan will be discussed at this time.
– If you agree to the terms and sign the agreement you
would move on to Step 6.
– You are under no obligation to use the REPAIR
program and nothing will be charged to you until an
Agreement is signed.
– Construction will contact you regarding repair scheduling within 30 days of signing your agreement.
– Development may contact you for photos of the project or to get your story in order to report to our donors.
– Start completing Partnership Hours.
You have 30 days from the time work is completed to complete your Partnership Hours. Staff will meet with you to complete final paperwork. Insurance would need to be in place at this time.
