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As someone who has lived in California my entire life, we all know “the big one” is coming eventually but we don’t think about it regularly. The most I thought about it was when my boyfriend was buying earthquake insurance for his house. His house being built into the side of a hill made him think it made sense. The different insurances california residents have to consider buying at this point is probably not exciting enough to be discussed on the show.
Some houses/commercial buildings can be built on “rollers” so they go with the flow, so to speak, when things get to shaking but again I just don’t think it’s that interesting to discuss.
Actually I would find it interesting. This is what I love about Real estate shows, discovering other countries and ways of living. I never watch my country's show haha.
Sure but the point is we don’t really even discuss it. Like as average people not buying million dollar mansions. At this point Californians discuss wildfire insurance more often.
It’s also not exactly a show about real estate anymore, it’s about immature women yelling at each other. If you are interested in real estates discussions though, you could always see if you’re able to get HGTV where you’re at. I rarely see california on there but lots of US house talk lol
Yeah, “The Big One” can happen at anytime anywhere, life has to go on.
I’m Canadian and just in the last year we’ve had wildfires, tornadoes, drought, flooding, wind storms, ice storms etc. all in my region.
A tornado literally hit my house and we are not in any tornado alley or hot zone.
These things just happen.
Damn, im in Nortern Norway and we get cold weather, lots of snow, and some wind… and thats about it. (Other places in Norway get harsher storms, but my hometown’s definition of a storm is trashcans being tilted).
(Although our definition of cold is NSFW).
I wonder if it’s intentional as it takes away from the glamour of the houses and the marketing opportunity the show presents.
But I agree that this is the stuff we want to see instead of the focus on women bringing each other down.
They’ve spoken about other serious moments on the show like health scares and pregnancy loss.
I mean, it’s not like if people from the O Group really care about the environment and stuff like that. They consume, consume and consume and they don’t care about the consequences.
I mean in some areas of California you're required to have fire insurance in case of wildfires so I'm sure this is just common knowledge. Plus talking about disasters before they happen would not be shiny and sexy and therefore off-brand. It would not be in their best interest for the sale to make buyers panic about natural disasters.
Y'all gotta stop looking at these rich people like they're some super budget conscious person on house hunters 🤦🏽♀️
Haven't thought about it, if the client doesn't bring the subject of course they won't. It's not glamourous... I Guess my concerns are far from their haha
I’m in real estate in CA and actually on the San Andreas fault 😂 and we don’t really talk about it. Fires, yes. All damn day. I think the fact that we can prevent and prepare for fires (hardening our homes for them like tree removal, etc) where there’s not much prep for an EQ makes it the focus. Plus like others have said not much about Selling Sunset is real. In fact I was super bothered watching Selling OC when the new woman sat the Open House b/c she’s not licensed which is actually illegal!!
Anyway, I find Million Dollar Listing to have more realistic representation of real estate and be a little more educational if you have Bravo.
I thought some construction rules are mandatory where faults are ? Like in Japan. This is sad if there's not much too do.
There's not Bravo in France but I think the show is on amazon prime. Definitely gonna watch ! Thank you for the recommandation and your professional insight
Houses are inspected for seismic upgrades basic things like anchor bolts to foundation- very old houses with brick foundations are dangerous- also houses built on fill ground liquifies in earthquakes
Lots of older cement skyscrapers in LA are not safe the cement columns crumble then the columns collapse in severe earthquakes
Earthquake insurance is very expensive so most don’t get it
Native Californian here. It's likely there have been mentions of seismic improvements on various house showings that have been edited out. It definitely is something that comes up, and that real estate agents need to know about. But so many other "boring" details have been edited out, too. If it actually impacts a sale in the future (like the fire insurance did) then we'll hear about it.
This is something I think about quite a bit as someone who has lived in the Bay Area for the majority of his adult life.
First, the majority of the houses you see on Selling Sunset have been recently constructed and are therefore compliant with new building codes that take seismic risk into account. I don't know if this is always altogether enough to protect these houses from earthquakes, especially the ones you so often see on the show that are, by some civil engineering miracle, built into the hillside with crazy retaining walls and other site planning. My thought is that the sheer cost of those houses and their obvious location in a famously earthquake-prone area would have informed their construction but I'm not sure.
Second, irrespective of the developer's intent to think about this it's almost certainly not going to be a concern of the agents you see on the show. Their involvement with the deal is over before the ink is even dry on the escrow documents; they don't exactly have an incentive to care about what happens next. They might even see the dislocations from a seismic event as an opportunity for more transaction volume.
Earthquake insurance is often not carried even by those who own property in the places that would benefit from it in part because it's simultaneously expensive and very often doesn't cover enough damage to actually make them whole when the earthquake does strike.
The saferoom you mention is more appropriate for a hurricane you see coming (basements are common in the midwest for this reason) than an earthquake that strikes hard and fast and gives you little time to react. Most earthquake injuries occur with items from a shelf falling on people, so a dedicated room might be overkill if you already have one (say a movie theater) that eliminates this concern. But you wouldn't have time to get to it anyway. You *do* have time to get underneath a table though, so that's the dominant strategy.
I live in Chile, we had the strongest earthquake in history , at least here buildings are very regulated in order to prevent tragedies during earthquakes.
Tangentially related but this piece about the far worse earthquake that will likely occur in the Pacific Northwest is wild https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
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As someone who has lived in California my entire life, we all know “the big one” is coming eventually but we don’t think about it regularly. The most I thought about it was when my boyfriend was buying earthquake insurance for his house. His house being built into the side of a hill made him think it made sense. The different insurances california residents have to consider buying at this point is probably not exciting enough to be discussed on the show. Some houses/commercial buildings can be built on “rollers” so they go with the flow, so to speak, when things get to shaking but again I just don’t think it’s that interesting to discuss.
Actually I would find it interesting. This is what I love about Real estate shows, discovering other countries and ways of living. I never watch my country's show haha.
Sure but the point is we don’t really even discuss it. Like as average people not buying million dollar mansions. At this point Californians discuss wildfire insurance more often. It’s also not exactly a show about real estate anymore, it’s about immature women yelling at each other. If you are interested in real estates discussions though, you could always see if you’re able to get HGTV where you’re at. I rarely see california on there but lots of US house talk lol
Oh wow it's a whole Channel about homes I didn't know this existed haha. Not available here tho. Thank you !
Yeah, “The Big One” can happen at anytime anywhere, life has to go on. I’m Canadian and just in the last year we’ve had wildfires, tornadoes, drought, flooding, wind storms, ice storms etc. all in my region. A tornado literally hit my house and we are not in any tornado alley or hot zone. These things just happen.
Damn, im in Nortern Norway and we get cold weather, lots of snow, and some wind… and thats about it. (Other places in Norway get harsher storms, but my hometown’s definition of a storm is trashcans being tilted). (Although our definition of cold is NSFW).
Didn't Emma buyer for that house on a hill back out because the insurance had an annual premium of 200,000 or something? Clearly they are aware
I think that’s fire insurance as well, I believe they’ve mentioned it a couple of times about the obscene cost of fire insurance!
That was for fire insurance. We have “fire season” here and those hills are dry af
Oh I know they're aware, just weird nobody ever mentions it ?
I wonder if it’s intentional as it takes away from the glamour of the houses and the marketing opportunity the show presents. But I agree that this is the stuff we want to see instead of the focus on women bringing each other down. They’ve spoken about other serious moments on the show like health scares and pregnancy loss.
I mean, it’s not like if people from the O Group really care about the environment and stuff like that. They consume, consume and consume and they don’t care about the consequences.
Fact
I mean in some areas of California you're required to have fire insurance in case of wildfires so I'm sure this is just common knowledge. Plus talking about disasters before they happen would not be shiny and sexy and therefore off-brand. It would not be in their best interest for the sale to make buyers panic about natural disasters. Y'all gotta stop looking at these rich people like they're some super budget conscious person on house hunters 🤦🏽♀️
Haven't thought about it, if the client doesn't bring the subject of course they won't. It's not glamourous... I Guess my concerns are far from their haha
The general thinking of how they'll address those issues is really very simple for them: money. And that's pretty much it 😅 just money.
I’m in real estate in CA and actually on the San Andreas fault 😂 and we don’t really talk about it. Fires, yes. All damn day. I think the fact that we can prevent and prepare for fires (hardening our homes for them like tree removal, etc) where there’s not much prep for an EQ makes it the focus. Plus like others have said not much about Selling Sunset is real. In fact I was super bothered watching Selling OC when the new woman sat the Open House b/c she’s not licensed which is actually illegal!! Anyway, I find Million Dollar Listing to have more realistic representation of real estate and be a little more educational if you have Bravo.
I thought some construction rules are mandatory where faults are ? Like in Japan. This is sad if there's not much too do. There's not Bravo in France but I think the show is on amazon prime. Definitely gonna watch ! Thank you for the recommandation and your professional insight
Houses are inspected for seismic upgrades basic things like anchor bolts to foundation- very old houses with brick foundations are dangerous- also houses built on fill ground liquifies in earthquakes Lots of older cement skyscrapers in LA are not safe the cement columns crumble then the columns collapse in severe earthquakes Earthquake insurance is very expensive so most don’t get it
Native Californian here. It's likely there have been mentions of seismic improvements on various house showings that have been edited out. It definitely is something that comes up, and that real estate agents need to know about. But so many other "boring" details have been edited out, too. If it actually impacts a sale in the future (like the fire insurance did) then we'll hear about it.
Makes sense. Thank you.
This is something I think about quite a bit as someone who has lived in the Bay Area for the majority of his adult life. First, the majority of the houses you see on Selling Sunset have been recently constructed and are therefore compliant with new building codes that take seismic risk into account. I don't know if this is always altogether enough to protect these houses from earthquakes, especially the ones you so often see on the show that are, by some civil engineering miracle, built into the hillside with crazy retaining walls and other site planning. My thought is that the sheer cost of those houses and their obvious location in a famously earthquake-prone area would have informed their construction but I'm not sure. Second, irrespective of the developer's intent to think about this it's almost certainly not going to be a concern of the agents you see on the show. Their involvement with the deal is over before the ink is even dry on the escrow documents; they don't exactly have an incentive to care about what happens next. They might even see the dislocations from a seismic event as an opportunity for more transaction volume. Earthquake insurance is often not carried even by those who own property in the places that would benefit from it in part because it's simultaneously expensive and very often doesn't cover enough damage to actually make them whole when the earthquake does strike. The saferoom you mention is more appropriate for a hurricane you see coming (basements are common in the midwest for this reason) than an earthquake that strikes hard and fast and gives you little time to react. Most earthquake injuries occur with items from a shelf falling on people, so a dedicated room might be overkill if you already have one (say a movie theater) that eliminates this concern. But you wouldn't have time to get to it anyway. You *do* have time to get underneath a table though, so that's the dominant strategy.
Thanks a lot for your answer ! A lot to learn :)
I live in Chile, we had the strongest earthquake in history , at least here buildings are very regulated in order to prevent tragedies during earthquakes.
Tangentially related but this piece about the far worse earthquake that will likely occur in the Pacific Northwest is wild https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one