Tag: Highland Park home insurance

Filing a Home Insurance Claim for Hail Damage Step 1

Hail season in north Texas typically runs from April through June each year. You wouldn’t know that considering the two hail storms that struck our area in March. The combined estimated losses are around $1.1 billion dollars in damages to homes, cars, and business property. It makes you wonder what the rest of the season may look like!

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Home Insurance Options Part Two

… no Texas home insurance policy covers everything a homeowner can experience. Nor does everyone need the same coverage across the board. This is why all home insurance policies come with options. These options enable a person to tailor the level of coverage to their specific needs and risk tolerance. Some people wouldn’t dream of having a policy without identity theft and credit card fraud coverage while others think such coverage are a waste of money. In this week’s post, I’ll outline more options you can include on your Texas home insurance policy.

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Home Insurance Options Part One

Texas home insurance policies don’t cover everything a homeowner can experience. Neither does everyone need the same coverage across the board which is why all home insurance policies come with options. Policy options allow a person to tailor the level of coverage to their specific needs and tolerance for risk. Some people wouldn’t dream of having a policy without sewage and drain backup coverage while others think such coverage would be a waste of money. Over the next two weeks, I’ll delve into a variety of home insurance options to help you determine what you can or can’t live without.

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Liability Coverage, Deductibles and Your Home Insurance Policy

Two weeks ago, I provided an overview of the coverage contained in a Texas home insurance policy (see https://wiseinsurancegroup.com/a-texas-home-insurance-overview/). Last week, we dug deeper into the policy with a look at the four categories of property coverage including dwelling, other structures, personal property, and additional living expenses (see https://wiseinsurancegroup.com/4-property-coverage-categories-home-insurance-policy/). In this week’s post, we’ll examine personal property, medical coverage, and policy deductibles.

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A Texas Home Insurance Overview

March is here and that signals the arrival of the home buying season. It also means it’s time for me to take a revisit home insurance. Beginning with this post, I’ll outline the coverage found on a typical Texas home insurance policy before drilling down into the different areas of a home policy. The goal is to help new home buyers know what to look for when shopping for home insurance, as well has raise questions to consider they may not have thought of.

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Home Insurance and the Disappearing Back Yard

Homeowner’s in Frisco finds themselves caught between a rock and a hard place as they wait for their homeowners association and neighborhood developer to decide who’s responsible for the collapsing slope behind his home. It also raises a question of what their home insurance policy covers and doesn’t cover.

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Misleading Home Insurance Offer Letters

Sheri’s and my home insurance renews in March. Over the past few weeks, we’ve received a number of offer letters from insurance agents with a variety of companies. All of them offer what appears to be huge savings. If I were not an insurance agent, I would be very interested, however, I am an insurance agent and I know what I’m looking at when I read these offer letters. The savings they promise really is too good to be true!

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Demolition, Debris Removal and Home Insurance

Over the past five weeks, I’ve written about home insurance topics related to the tornadoes that hit north Texas on December 26th including picking the right roofer or contractor, claim steps, important coverage in the event of a total loss, how claims are paid and why a home inventory is invaluable after a major claim. I felt it appropriate to end this series with a look at two things home insurance covers which are factored into the home’s dwelling value that most homeowners don’t think about, demolition and debris removal.

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Do You Have a Home Inventory?

On Saturday, December 26, the temperatures were unseasonably warm, due to the warm air flowing up from the Gulf. A cold front rolled in from the west late that afternoon to collide with the warm Gulf air and set off 11 tornadoes across north Texas which killed 11 people and damaged or destroyed over 1,200 homes and businesses in Red Oak, Garland, and Rowlett.

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