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Home Owner's Insurance Policy

Published Saturday, September 6, 2008 by bloggerblognet37044 | E-mail this post

This is basically the policy that protects your home. It is an agreement between you and an insurance company that you will be paying a certain amount (known as deductible) monthly, every six months, annually or any how you agree upon. Then in event of any loss or damage to your house they would pay you a predetermined sum. The insurance company would also pay for any injury that is incurred on your property for which your are responsible. This would cover specified period of time as agreed by both parties.

The basic home owner's policy does not cover natural disaster. You would therefore need to take out extra coverage to protect you in times of natural disaster. Most mortgagors would insist that you get a basic home owners insurance policy before they do business with you. But like I mentioned, it is not always the best to take out only the basic policy.

Home owner's insurance policy has different typed of coverage. They include:

1. The basic home owner's insurance policy covers the following: damage or destruction to the house and property arising from explosion, riots/civil unrest. Fire/lighting, volcano eruptions, vehicles, aircrafts, wind/hail, self destruction (part of the house falling on itself), theft, smoke and vandalism.

2. Plan 2 covers loss or damage to house and property arising from all the disasters listed in number one and also an addition of the following; a)water damage (dishwasher breaks, washing machine overflows), (b) electrical power surge (c) snow damage (like snow falling trees).

3. The thirds plan covers number 1 and 2 and also specialty items. The only events on the exclusion lists are earthquakes, war and nuclear blasts and floods.

4. Complete risk coverage: This covers any loss and damage to the house and property. Remember to always read and understand everything that is listed in the exclusion list

5. Renters insurance policy: This covers only the property of the tenant in a house from the disasters listed in number 1 and 2

6. There are special policies for homes with historical value. The policy only covers the disasters listed in number 1 and is limited to repair or cash value of the items involved. The policy does not cover rebuilding costs because most of these buildings are often times higher than the current market value. (Especially the historic aspects of the house).

7. Condominium Insurance: This is similar to the renters' insurance policy.

All these plans come with variation. It all depends on the insurance company and the need of the person buying the insurance policy.

For you to get the best out of your home insurance policy, you need to make out time to shop.
Just as you took out time to look around for a house to buy, you also need to carefully check out quotes from different insurance sites and compare prices and services. This way, you'll be able to get what is best for you and at an affordable price too!

Here are recommended pages for home insurance quotes...

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Chisomeje Odimba writes for Quality-Insurance-4-Less.

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