Home Insurance: Do You Really Need It?

The typical dream is to have a high paying career and buy a home where you and your family can live without fear of a landlord knocking on your door or having to move every time rent increases. But it is not only a landlord’s unpleasant face that will come knocking on your door. There are much more undesirable visitors that may show up. That’s why you need Home Insurance.

Like Car Insurance, Insuring your home protects you and your home in case of natural or man-made disasters that may affect you and your family home. But what will a Homeowner’s Insurance policy do for you?

The Structure of your Home: The physical structure of your home is the primary focus of home insurance. Basically, when your home is hit by earthquake, flood or even robbers, the insurance company repairs or rebuilds your house as appropriate. In this way, you don’t have to plunge into your life savings to start afresh with repairing damages done to your house or going through the process of buying another home. This saves you a ton of headache.

Protection of your Assets:  A typical home insurance policy should also cover assets you have in your home. This way if and when disaster strikes resulting in the loss of your personal properties, they will be replaced for you. This way you won’t have to start all over again as against when you don’t have them covered under the insurance policy.

Protection of Liability: Sometimes instead of you having to be the recipient of unwanted home or property damages, it is the other way round. You, your family or pets may accidentally damage your neighbor’s home or properties and would be liable for repairing or replacing them. But if you are enrolled in a homeowner’s insurance policy that covers such issues, they will be responsible for compensating the victims. Under such a policy the legal cost of defending you in court and any damages that the court rules that you pay will be provided by your insurance company.

In addition, any extra costs of living outside your home like your hotel bills, costs of meals and any other living expenses that are incurred while living outside your home because of being hit by a catastrophe such as fire, a storm or any other insured disaster will be paid for by the insurance company and not out of your pockets.

Whatever you decide to do, make sure that your home is adequately insured against any man-made or natural disasters that may affect you now or in the future. It will definitely save you a lot of stress, money and family troubles when the time comes. It is the passport to better safeguarding your American dream.