Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Cheaper Hawaii Auto Insurance -- Your Credit Rating?

By Chimezirim Odimba

The topic of interest in this article is still on my series on Hawaii car insurance savings. This page will focus on another factor that really affects the risk most insurance companies associate with insuring you. It, therefore, affects your costs...

Your credit record is a factor you must not joke with. If you have something to do with people and marketing you'll understand why this is an increasingly important factor with a growing number of insurers...

Your credit record shows much about you. If you have a very bad credit record, an insurer will certainly see you as a bigger risk than another of similar circumstances who has an excellent history.

Insurance companies believe that people who miss payment of their regular bills are less likely to attend well to issues in other aspects of their lives. Yes, including driving. For them a pattern of negligence with personal bills means general irresponsibility which is often carried on behind wheels.

If you have a bad history, you've neglected your payments and that is not good news for insurance providers. Neglecting your rates is more likely apart from the fact that bankrupty is also more likely.

What will an insurance company do if a client goes bankrupt? That's a subject for another discourse. The issue is how this will affect what you pay on insurance.

Since you are a bigger risk to them, they raise your rates. You can see your rate doubled in some cases if you miss a couple of payments on a credit card. Depending on how many times you miss payments, you may even lose your auto insurance policy.

Since it now also affects your car insurance rate thus affecting your general expenditure, try to build a great credit record.

A very good credit history is a basis for getting savings. Believe it or not: Everybody likes doing business with people who have a great credit history. They are very unlikely to default on their insurance premium.

I have told you that your credit record can help you make some savings. I know you're itching to know how so here it is: Get as many quotes as possible from as many Hawaii car insurance quotes sites as make sense. Thereafter, compare each of them and select the best quote. This is extremely important as it can result in savings of over $1000 in some cases.

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