Elaine Culotti

It comes out Friday, I believe.

I don't think this looks any better.

I'm sorry, Doug.

I tried to pull myself together quick for you.

But you do, you sound like crap.

I'm so...

Gosh, okay.

I guess I woke up, you're absolutely right, in 2018 when my house burned in the Woolsey fire.

And I'll put this out there.

We were well insured at the time, exceptionally lucky, lost no one, not one animal, nothing.

We lived on a farm.

So when I say not one animal, there were quite a few animals.

Having said that,

What happened after is what woke me up to what I would literally call the corruption created by Gavin Newsom.

And the bottom line is that red tape was weaponized against homeowners so that you couldn't rebuild and you would have to tap out.

And after a year...

of trying to get a permit just to clean up the property.

If you have a mortgage, you're paying your mortgage, your insurance eventually runs out on temporary housing.

I was a year into it and I didn't even have a permit to clean up the property.

So long story short, myself and many other residents tapped out and you sell the property.