I have an update as to what is happening with this claim at this point , today July 7th,2014 , I spoke to the public adjuster this morning about this matter and he told me that basically we are done , there is some monies to claim if and when I get the work done concerning the roof and air conditioning system on the house itself , but told me that Mr Brent Bowen and himself , have worked so diligently thru out this past year on this matter that there is no place else to go with it , I am not pleased at these results obviously , but feel backed up against a wall by a group of bullies handling the situation so I do not see a mutual agreement being reached here , there are still unanswered questions out there , number one being that I still never got paid for my personal belongings lost in the guest house , yes American Family did send me a check for that , but I did not accept it and sent it back to Mr Jim O,TOOLE UNSIGNED , he was to dispute the amount , I never heard any more about that , American Family I was told says all checks they sent out were cashed , I do not know what happened to the one I did not sign and sent back to him , if it was signed it was not signed by me , and I did not see any of the money from it , I suppose now I am just suppose to turn my head and let it go as lost and forgotten , the check was for the personal items , it was one of the largest sent out , it was either 14,000 or 16,000 dollars however not enough in my opinion for the personal , so it is a lot of money regardless to just ignore and forget about , especially since someone else took it upon themselves to keep , there is also the question of Mr Brent Bowen stating that my home here suffered no smoke damage , he was up here , and even now whenever anyone comes up they can still see how close the actual fire was to my house , only inches , it is extremely a miracle that the house did not burn , but smoke damage , it was too close to have not suffered any , instead he thought it was all nicotine , however the color is different with nicotine than an actual fire , there was blackened soot on the walls in here and else where , that did not come from nicotine , and last but not least just the way American Family inserted everything into each bundle with the checks they paid out , when my stubs only said payment for building , or AC payment whatever , now there is an entire list of things that are or were included in them checks , like everything , this is just another example of dirty under hand business practices in our system , like the VA Hospitals scandal , and the Child Protection Agency , and the Yarnell FIRE , STILL TO BE INVESTIGATED , for conspiracy , wrong communication , and other things that were and are held back , it is a shame that this goes on , just so some people out there will not get the care or money they deserve , but big business and governments can and do , I would like to remove this claim and say it is resolved but just can,t bring myself to do it yet , it may not bring the results I expected it to but I do see some holes here to fix yet and until I receive what ever little amount of money to be paid to me , I will not be taking it off this site or others , this kind of greedy , inhumane actions need to be cleaned out of business and government , other insurance companies have done the same thing to people in the Yarnell Fire particularly , so not necessary , I have sent an e-mail to Mr Bowen , and to Mr O,Toole as well concerning my question regarding the check that I never cashed and where it is ? , but I have to wait for people to get back from their vacations and such to have this matter taken care of so it may be another year yet or so before we get to the bottom of this one , it just is not important enough because of the total amount we are talking about here , to get it resolved sooner .However these kind of business practices are something to get involved with , so they don,t continue to happen to others .