"Eric Tonks" wrote in message
i.com...
If you read your insurance policy -- you do have insurance -- in cold
climates, you will most likely find a clause exempting them from paying out
if the house is vacant and not inspected every 48 hours. The question is
what was the neighbor doing with the key, holding it for good luck. He
should have been checking the house on a regular basis. It is also very bad
to leave a house unheated through winter without extensive preparations. If
you could prove you did things right, possibly your insurance company would
pay out.

How is he going to prove he did things right when he turned the heat off with
exposed pipes in his basement where the temperature drops to way below zero
for hours and sometimes days, even if they were before the meter?

Tom J