Property owners are increasingly purchasing minimum homeowners insurance policies

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Consumers are increasingly choosing to buy the smallest possible amount of coverage. When the vast majority of people purchase homes, they do so with a mortgage that requires them to carry a certain minimum amount of homeowners insurance coverage. That said, to an increasing degree, consumers are deciding to buy no more than the minimum allowable amount of coverage. Property buyers are facing a rapidly growing total of costs, leaving little room for extras. While homeowners insurance is required – and will provide exceptionally important coverage in the case of…

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Colorado Homeowners Insurance Rates Experience a Staggering Uptick

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Both house and condo owners have been watching their premiums head through their roofs. Condo owners in Louisville, Colorado have been reporting that their homeowners insurance rates have skyrocketed by 700 percent. This isn’t an isolated incident, as rates throughout the state have been rapidly rising this year. Colorado homeowners insurance premiums have been going up for a number of reasons, but they are mainly being linked to high inflation in addition to increasingly common and destructive wildfires, floods, and hailstorms. State Rep. Kyle Brown, a resident of Louisville, Colorado,…

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Florida passes homeowners insurance bill including $10k for home hardening

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State residents could receive $2 for every $1 they pay for upgrades to protect their homes from damage. Florida state lawmakers have passed a bill to update homeowners insurance regulations and bring back a 16-year-old program that would pay an owner as much as $10,000 for home hardening upgrades. The goal of the legislators was to help ease the sharply increasing rates residents are paying for coverage. The new program meant to help reign in the skyrocketing homeowners insurance rates is called My Safe Florida Home. It has been designed…

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Homeowners insurance companies impacted by late home buying trend from Millennials

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The change in trends between generations is leading to challenges for coverage providers. The results of new research have found that Millennials and the youngest of the Gen X generation have experienced substantial delays in buying homes, and this trend is affecting homeowners insurance companies. This trend has been made only worse by the trends in out-of-state migration from those same generations. Those trends toward migrations out of state are driven in part by the COVID-19 pandemic. That behavior is posing a risk to homeowners insurance companies. These, among other…

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What Gen Z Should Keep In Mind When It Comes to Insurance

Navigating the murky world of insurance can be intimidating at best. However, when you’re a member of Gen Z and you’re still trying to figure out the whole “adulting” thing, trying to figure out which types of insurance you need and how to get it can feel downright paralyzing.  The good news is that getting insured is probably not as complicated as you think. You just need to know how to figure out what policies are right for you. Life Insurance It can be hard to think about your own…

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