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4 Home Insurance Rating Factors That Aren’t Related to Your Home

Last week, I gave a presentation to a group of people on Home Insurance Frequently Asked Questions. It was a delightful time that spurred even more questions from the audience. This gave me the idea to take some of the points and write a series of posts on them, many of which I write about annually. With that as our guide, let’s look at four factors insurance companies use to determine your annual rate that have nothing to do with your home. They do, however, have everything to do with you!

Home Insurance and Scheduled Articles Coverage

Most home insurance policies provide a wide array of coverage on the home you’re your personal property. However, one policy area that is purposely weak when it comes to coverage is when it applies to certain items such as jewelry, artwork, and collectibles.

Financial Oriented Home Insurance Options

The third category of home insurance options is oriented toward financial protection. These are options can be added to some home insurance policies are designed to protect the homeowner from a financial loss. Admittedly, all insurance policies are designed to protect the policy holder from a devastating financial loss, yet these are focused on certain types of financial loss.

Personal Liability Oriented Home Insurance Options

There are three areas or categories home insurance options tend to fall into. Last week I opened this series with a look at property-oriented options. These options provide additional coverage that either extends the base limits of coverage contained within a home, renters, or condo insurance policy, or they provide additional coverage that isn’t a part of the base policy. In this week’s post, we’ll examine options that provide coverage for personal liability.

Property Oriented Home Insurance Options

Home insurance has several options which can be added to a home or condo policy. Some may even be added to a renters policy. These options provide additional coverage to further protect the home or the owner’s contents. Some options may provide additional liability coverage or enhance the protection of the policy holder’s financial status. We’ll examine each of these three areas over the next couple of weeks.

Replacement Cost Home Insurance and the Other Kind

Over the past few weeks, I’ve written about home insurance covering traditional homes, condos, and town homes, as well as, renters insurance. In all the posts, I’ve mentioned the term replacement cost. On a renters policy, this refers to contents or personal property, while on a home, condo, or town home policy this refers to the actual structure and the contents. Let’s examine what replacement coverage is and how it’s different from the other type of coverage.

Home Insurance Three Broad Coverage Areas

Home insurance can cover a lot of different things depending on the options offered by the company and selected by the homeowner. There are three broad areas that are common to most policies regardless of the home insurance company. These are coverage for property, personal liability, and policy extensions.

How the Government Shutdown Impacts Insurance

As I write this, it appears the members of the Senate and House of Representatives have come to their senses and agreed to fund the federal government for at least 17 more days or until February 8. Who knows what will happen by then! Regardless of who’s at fault, I thought it would be interesting to look at how such a shutdown impacts individuals and insurance.

2017’s Impact on Texas Home Insurance in 2018

One of the sayings I heard after moving to Dallas was, “If you’re tired of the weather in Texas, just wait a few hours and it will change.” That may not be entirely accurate, but our weather does tend to be filled with surprises. 2017 held a couple of major surprises for Texans and its effect on home and car insurance will be felt this year. Let’s look at what happened and how it will impact home insurance this year.

Home Insurance and Historic Homes

While Dallas is renowned for tearing down old homes and replacing them with new ones that are “bigger and better,” there are some areas in east Dallas, Lakewood, the Park Cities and parts of Fort Worth near TCU that have some beautiful, stately homes built at the turn of the past century. Some of the homes appear on National and Texas historic home registries and more reside in historic districts. How does writing a home insurance policy for a home in a historic district or on a registry differ appear from writing one built in the 1950’s or that was just finished?

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4 Home Insurance Rating Factors That Aren’t Related to Your Home

Home Insurance and Scheduled Articles Coverage

Financial Oriented Home Insurance Options

Personal Liability Oriented Home Insurance Options

Property Oriented Home Insurance Options

Replacement Cost Home Insurance and the Other Kind

Home Insurance Three Broad Coverage Areas

How the Government Shutdown Impacts Insurance

2017’s Impact on Texas Home Insurance in 2018

Home Insurance and Historic Homes

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