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Reasons You Should Never Be Without Renter's Insurance
Stephen Sikes
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While you may not worry so much about insurance for your home if you are renting, you should be. Here's why
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If you are renting a home or apartment, you may think you're in the clear if something goes wrong. If there is a fire, storm or other problem that damages the building, that's the building owner's problem, right? Well in part.
What you may not think about is that all of your things are inside of that building, and the building owner is not responsible for those items. While they will have to fix any problems with the building, you will be out all of your belongings.
Imagine if you lost all of your possessions. How much would it cost to replace them? Do you have that kind of money on hand? If not, you need renters insurance.
How Much Renter's Insurance Do I Need?
This is a tough spot for many people. You literally need to come up with a dollar amount that will replace all the things in your home. The best way to do this is to literally take an inventory of your home and all the belongings and try to come up with what it would cost to replace everything. While it may be tempting to far over-estimate the worth of your belongings, just remember, your renter's insurance premium will directly correlate to how much coverage you have purchased.
What Else Does Renters Insurance Do?
In addition to covering any of your belongings that may be destroyed in a fire or other disaster, there is another benefit to renter's insurance a legal benefit. Imagine if someone were at your home, tripped, fell and was hurt. Or perhaps they were bitten by your dog. While you may never want to think that your guests would sue you, they well could decide to and that can put you out a lot of money.
With renter's insurance you will usually be covered for these eventualities and they will take care of any money you are forced to pay out for the injuries.
Another popular part of many renter's insurance plans is that they offer payments if you are forced out of your home and have to find somewhere else to live while your apartment or home is being repaired. If there is a fire in your rental home, you will not be able to move back in right after the fire. You will have to wait for repairs to be done. Many renter's insurance policies will pay for your living expenses as you wait for your home to be repaired.
Steve Sikes is an MBA and writes articles on insurance and other financial products. To read other educational articles on insurance at the InsuredItAll Learning Center or to get free insurance quotes for auto, home, health, life or long term care insurance, you will want to visit http://www.InsuredItAll.com
Article submitted Monday, October 06, 2008
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