I’ve been thinking a lot about creating a check list of home insurance related items for home buyers after last week’s post on why home buyers should check insurance on the new home during the option period. Here are three items home buyers should check that may help them save money on their insurance, as well as avoiding some unpleasant surprises.
I dealt with an interesting situation this past week I believe is important to share with anyone buying a home. It reminded me why it’s so important for home buyers to review home insurance during the option period, not after it’s expired.
I received a call from one of two business partners last week. The partners bought a home that needed some TLC. Once they finish with
I have received several emails and calls over the last few weeks about home insurance for a duplex, so I thought this would be an excellent time to revisit this. Insuring a duplex can be the same as writing a home insurance policy for a single family home and it can be very different.
There’s an old saying, “If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it’s a duck.” That isn’t always the case when it comes to a town house. From an insurance standpoint, sometimes a town house is a house and other times it’s a condo. It really depends on the homeowners association and their insurance policy.
A colleague called me a couple of weeks ago. She’d been asked to provide a home insurance quote for a prospective client whose policy was being cancelled. The reason it was being cancelled is the insurance company discovered the home has a roof with three layers of shingles when it conducted the home inspection
August is here and it’s hot! The forecast for the next week, and probably the rest of the month, is 100 + degree days and no rain. It makes me miss the rain we had in May that erased the drought conditions we’d experienced the past three years. August, however, usually means little to no rain and with the clay content of our soil, it’s time to review foundation care.
No one wants to pay more for their Texas home insurance than they have to. What people want is to pay a fair price for their home insurance without being over or under insured. With that in mind, here are 13 ways you can save on your Texas home insurance.
My niece and fabulous intern, Lizzie, graduated from a Dallas area high school in June and will be heading for Fayetteville to attend the University of Arkansas in three weeks. I felt this would be a good time to re-visit property insurance for college students.
There are a number of things most people don’t know about flooding of flood insurance, such as flooding is the top natural disaster in the US, and that flash floods are the top weather related killer, or that 20% of all flood claims are from low and moderate risk flood zone areas (see https://wiseinsurancegroup.com/texas-floods-and-flood-insurance/). There is one other thing most people don’t know about flood insurance, and that is there are limits on how much a policy will pay on a claim.
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