Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Affordable Home Insurance Rates -- Don't Ignore These Tips

By Chimezirim Odimba

Affordable Home Insurance Rates: It doesn't usually take applying very many tips to realize massive savings while maintaining sufficient coverage. Just understanding some compulsory steps and using them will make a big difference. Let's examine a good number of them here...

1. Getting dead-bolt locks on all exterior door will reduce your home insurance premium. This makes it difficult for intruders or burglars to have their way. And since a home's risk of burglary is a key factor in calculating your home insurance premiums, you will spend far less.

2. Buy an umbrella policy and reduce your home liability coverage. You spend far less for more extensive coverage from liability claims by doing this.

You buy home liability coverage to ensure you don't incur losses on account of injury to someone on your property. Lawsuits that may arise from such injury claims are as well covered. Nevertheless, every liability coverage has limits that might not even be enough to take care of some lawsuits.

Nevertheless, an umbrella insurance policy will easily pay fully for even the most cost-intensive of lawsuits and all it would have cost you is just a negligible premium amount.

3. Verify an insurer's rating and do NOT be deceived by just low rates. You do NOT want to pay your rates diligently only to discover later that your insurance provider cannot keep to its part for a number of reasons. Spend time to check with your state's department of insurance website. Find out if your preferred insurance company is licensed to offer home insurance in your state.

BBB, A.M Best Company, Phelps, Inc., Standard & Poor's Insurance Rating Services, Moody's Investor Services, Inc. are resources that you'll do well to visit before you buy a policy from any company.

4. A household that has a smoker or smokers will get more expensive premiums. And reports have it that over 23,000 residential fire annually could be linked to smoking. Do your best to make sure no one smokes in your home and you'll pay cheaper premiums. If you quit smoking successfully for up to 13 months, let your agent know it and ask for a well-earned discount. What if your insurance company refuses to grant you discounts because some insurers do NOT give non-smokers discounts? Then it's time to shop for an insurer who does except you have something else to justify your continued stay with such an insurer.

5. Ensure you do NOT leave ladders lying around. Doing this would be making a thief's job a lot easier. Do NOT as well leave pieces of tools lying around. They also make breaking and entry much easier for burglars. All such things will ultimately add to premium if you do not keep them in the properly.

6. You can lower your home insurance costs by getting and comparing quotes from at least five good insurance quotes sites.

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