Fire in Portsmouth, destroys strip mall, off Tyre Neck Road

Hello,

My name is Larry Betterton, I am the owner of Betterton Home Improvement.

I would like to say thank you for trying to get help to those business owners who suffered such a terrible loss.  I can only speak for Betterton Home Improvement so I must limit what I can say:

As far as Betterton goes, we are a family run business: my wife, daughter, son, brothers all work with me and and most have been with me for the past 30 years.

The fire that started next to our business office did in fact take the entire building along with our  office and everything in it required to run a business, nothing is left but ashes and our faith in God.

I just wanted to let it be known that we do have all of our people working and that not one of our customers jobs were left unattended for a single day.

It will be a little while before our office can be rebuilt but in the mean time I still must keep everyone working.

We are not asking or expecting anyone to help us, We only want to work and take care of our customers first.

We are all happy that no one was injured, yet sadened by the fact that some of the companies (like us) were not insured.

 It will be costly to rebuild our business to the point that it was prior to the fire so, we need work and losts of it.

All we ask is that people keep us in mind and allow us the prividgle to continue providing their free estimates for home improvements.

Thank you all.

Larry Betterton

President: Betterton Home Improvement  (757) 483-164

Sorry the phone number got cut off. 757-483-1640