Tag: home insurance

Insuring Your College Student’s Property

August is here, and the start of fall classes is just around the corner. I usually have a couple of phone calls from clients whose son or daughter are about to head to school and they want to confirm that their stuff is covered. The answer is usually yes, but there are a couple of considerations worth confirming. Let’s view this in light of where the student will live.

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When Home Insurance Doesn’t Cover Your Remodel Project

Last week, I wrote about when home insurance may cover a remodel project (see https://wiseinsurancegroup.com/will-home-insurance-policy-cover-remodel-project/). It may hinge on if the home is occupied as most home insurance companies do not want to write a policy when a home is vacant. In cases when your home insurance policy won’t cover the project, then I suggest either a vacant remodel or builder’s risk policy.

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Will Your Home Insurance Policy Cover Your Remodel Project?

A friend of mine texted me the other day and asked me to quote her home insurance. I called her to discuss some questions I had about her home when she informed me she would be starting a remodel project in the next week or two which coincided with when she wanted to start a new policy. Her concern was if she changed home insurance now, would it cover her home remodel project?

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Comparing Home Insurance Offers

Your offer on the home has been accepted and you’re working your way through the tasks to close. One of those tasks will be to find home insurance for your new home. If you’re wondering how you compare this offer with that offer, you’re not alone! Over 95% of the people I talk with don’t know anything about home insurance or how to compare multiple offers. Aside from rate, there are 4 areas you should review when comparing.

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Roof Age and its Impact on Home Insurance

Roof age has become increasingly more important over the past 3 years to home insurance companies due to the amount of money they’ve paid for hail damage claims in north Texas. Knowing when it was last replaced can have a positive or negative impact for the home buyer. Here are 4 ways the roof’s age can impact a home buyer.

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Hurricane Season Insurance Review

Sheri and I visited family in Alabama over the Memorial Day weekend. We all watched the weather reports on sub-tropical storm Alberto as it turned north in the Gulf and headed toward the Florida panhandle and Alabama. It serves as an excellent reminder that hurricane season officially begins on Friday, June 1 and runs through the end of November. With that in mind, let’s review home insurance and remember a hurricane or named storm can impact central and north Texas residents as easily as it does our coastal neighbors. Specifically, I’ll address two key areas of your home insurance policy to review along with two other related policies.

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Firearms and Home Insurance

… what does home insurance cover when it comes to firearms and was addressed in an Insurance Journal article that appeared after the Parkland shooting. There are two coverage types within most home insurance polices that potentially address firearms, personal property and personal liability coverage.

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Home Insurance and Volcanoes

I’ve been fascinated watching the news on the Kilauea volcano eruption and its lava flows from the 17 or so vents that have opened across the area. It’s amazing to see the lava sprays and flows as it moves downhill through the forests and into populated areas. I can’t imagine what the people living in the area are going through wondering and waiting to see if their homes and anything else they left behind will be there once the volcanic activity subsides. One of the things I’ve wondered about is if home insurance covers such a force of nature as it’s engulfed about 25 homes and 10 other structures so far.

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