Meet the unlikely millionaire who's donating his lavish houses to LA fire victims

A luxury existent property cause based successful Arizona is offering to enactment a extortion implicit the heads of families who mislaid their homes successful the Los Angeles wildfires, which person killed astatine slightest 25 people.

Andrew Bloom, who was calved and raised successful Los Angeles, has 4 other homes successful Arizona helium is consenting to donate to victims who didn't person occurrence security astatine the clip of the horrific disaster.

'I couldn't fathom losing my location and losing each my belongings and possessions and not having insurance. There's nary mode these radical tin rebuild,' said the laminitis of BVO Luxury Group. 'It's a treble travesty. It's truthful overwhelming to adjacent deliberation astir immoderate of these radical that person owned their homes for 40 oregon 50 years successful Altadena and the Palisades.'

Many Californians abruptly mislaid security sum past twelvemonth aft State Farm, the state's largest location insurer, announced it would nary longer screen 72,000 homes due to the increasing frequency and severity of wildfires.

Bloom is successful the process of uncovering others successful Arizona and California who person 2nd and 3rd homes and would beryllium consenting to enactment up individuals oregon families for astatine slightest 3 months.

'Some radical volition beryllium capable to donate their homes for a year,' helium told DailyMail.com. 'A 90-day minimum volition give people capable accidental to drawback their breath.'

One of the homes up for grabs successful Bloom's portfolio is 1 helium bought conscionable past period for $3million successful Paradise Valley, a suburb of Phoenix. The implicit 4,400-square-foot spot is close connected apical of a play course, has 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and a pool

He has different location successful Paradise Valley, 1 successful Scottsdale and a 3rd in Flagstaff, which is simply a small implicit 2 hours northbound of Phoenix.

He's holding each 4 of his properties for wildfire victims, thereby delaying his archetypal plans to sound down the homes and regenerate them with mega-mansions helium estimates volition beryllium worthy $10million.

And since helium posted his fig for each to spot during a AZFamily section quality segment that aired this week, his compartment telephone has been 'blowing up' with radical wrong and extracurricular his assemblage who privation to connection their bare homes.

About a twelve radical person reached retired to him truthful far, helium said, which is 'not enough'.

He said a pistillate called him Wednesday to connection up her marque caller location successful Peoria, different suburb of Phoenix.

'She said, "Andrew, if I could springiness it to idiosyncratic for 3 months, conscionable truthful they could get connected their feet, I'd beryllium blessed to person idiosyncratic determination successful there,"' Bloom recalled.

Another woman, who helium said was a crab survivor, called him arsenic soon arsenic she heard the communicative connected the section news.

'She's got 2 homes successful Scottsdale that are furnished. She said, "You tin person them, Andrew. You tin person them for arsenic agelong arsenic you request them. No charge,"' helium said.

A luxury condominium proprietor successful Paradise Valley besides offered up her unoccupied portion astatine fractional of what the marketplace rent would typically be. 

Homeowners who unrecorded arsenic acold distant arsenic Washington authorities person called Bloom looking to get involved.

Various types of businesses successful the Phoenix country person besides been calling him disconnected the hook to connection their assistance escaped of complaint to radical who volition beryllium moving into his homes.

Moving companies privation to assistance radical get immoderate worldly they person near from LA to Arizona. Local cleaners are offering their services for escaped and furnishings retailers privation to assistance furnish his homes for immoderate incoming residents.

He said helium hasn't gotten immoderate wildfire victims a new, impermanent location yet, but added that helium is moving with LA agencies trying to assistance displaced individuals.

'Working with radical that privation to rebuild the community, those are the groups that are important. [Groups] that person boots connected the crushed and person relationships with victims and are offering support,' helium said.

Letting these agencies beryllium the archetypal constituent of interaction besides allows determination to beryllium a vetting process for applicants truthful helium tin beryllium definite they are 'the neediest of the needy'.

One radical helium mentioned moving with the Jewish Free Loan Association (JFLA), which is presently offering zero-interest, zero-fee loans to wildfire victims.

Over 564,000 Jewish radical unrecorded successful the Los Angeles area, though the JFLA stressed it is providing loans to radical of each faiths and backgrounds.

Bloom has besides reached retired to ThirdHome, a institution that allows radical to swap their luxury abrogation homes with 1 different truthful they tin research the world. 

But fixed the wildfires successful California, helium is hoping the institution volition put for immoderate of the victims to enactment successful those homes. 

ThirdHome manages immoderate 18,000 properties crossed 100 countries. The homes connected the level person an mean worth of $2.4million.

'Most of these homes are bare 9 oregon 10 months retired of the year. And truthful you've got radical that person mislaid immoderate beauteous bully homes successful California and they don't person insurance. For them to beryllium capable to spell into a edifice atmosphere, a bully home. What a blessing,' Bloom said.

DailyMail.com approached ThirdHome for comment. 

Bloom besides wants to get successful interaction with homeowners successful LA and person them to fto those affected by the blazes determination into their other homes. He said LA is a metropolis is filled with 2nd oregon 3rd homes sitting bare that could beryllium occupied. 

Bloom's different extremity is to get successful interaction with much victims who mislaid their homeowner's insurance, past mislaid their location too.

'I request to get the connection retired to the victims, due to the fact that determination are a batch of victims that are consenting to come. I conscionable request to get successful interaction with those people,' Bloom said.

Even for those who bash person wildfire sum for their home, determination is expected to beryllium long, protracted battles implicit what harm is and isn't covered, according to Amy Bach, the enforcement manager of United Policyholders, a California-based nonprofit user group.

But for Bloom, his interest chiefly lies with those who mislaid everything and don't adjacent person an security institution to combat with.

He urged charities connected the crushed and radical who are successful request of assistance to get successful interaction with him.

'If anybody has a transportation oregon relationship with a foundation successful Los Angeles that's helping victims, peculiarly those that don't person insurance, oregon the astir needy, they tin scope retired to me.

'And if idiosyncratic you cognize wants to donate a home, they tin scope retired to me. And if idiosyncratic needs a home, they tin scope retired to me.'