Family Gets Free Roof After Contractor Mixes Up Addresses

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FORT PIERCE · Many homeowners are having trouble getting contractors to replace their hurricane-damaged roofs, and when they find someone, the price is as high as the sky they can see through rips in their blue tarps.

But Rimmon Juerakhan doesn't have either problem. He's getting a new roof on his Fort Pierce home without even asking, and he's not paying a cent.

Juerakhan is on the lucky end of a misread street number.

A crew from Federal Construction Co. of Miami was supposed to repair Dave Miller's roof at 1103 Colonial Road, but they went to work on Juerakhan's roof at 1003 Colonial instead.

Juerakhan was curious when a load of tar paper and shingles was dropped in his driveway the night of March 9. As he left home the next morning, he noticed the packing label stated they were meant for 1103 Colonial, and figured the roofers would realize their mistake before starting work.

But when he returned home that afternoon, workers had already stripped the roof off his house.

"I told the foreman that they had the wrong house," Juerakhan recalled.

"It was a mistake on our part," Jarvis Osorio, owner of Federal Construction, said Monday.

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