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pasto76

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24. hey when it all crashed in 2008, was it intentionally hard to file a claim?

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Mon Apr 9, 2012, 12:02 PM

Apr 2012

seemed like it!!

website was a joke; almost impossible to get through on the phone. Literally spent days just trying to connect.

Keep up the good work. Get out there and educate some of the whackos in our state!

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