Even $3300 is a rip off with a 275K replacement cost. My house replacement cost is over 700K and I pay around 3K with Liberty Mutual. I will eventually switch to State Farm which will be around 2K.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 22, 2020, at 9:26 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > That is amazing you would think home insurance would be way more expensive > there. The currently policy with USAA is $3300 with a $2500 deductible and > they are valuing house at $275k. Replacement cost anyway. When it renewed > next month it looks like it’s going up to about $4300. 5 years ago it was > something like a little over $2k. Wtf? > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Aug 22, 2020, at 7:40 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> I can’t compare home insurance here because of the hurricane stuff, but to >> give you an idea of scale, I’ve got a 2500 SF 20 year old home with a three >> car garage and pool, and I pay $1600/year. That’s with a $500 deductible >> except for hurricane (wind) damage, which has a $5000 deductible, I believe. >> >> Car insurance in Florida is a screw no matter how you look at it, mainly >> because we have no-fault. We’re not as bad as Michigan (sorry, Mitch!) but >> we’re in the top ten most expensive states to insure a car. I pay about >> $4000/year for three cars, two of which have full coverage on them - I don’t >> have collision on the beater ML500. >> >> We were customers of State Farm since before we were married, totaling 32 >> years of business. One of our friends here in Florida was our agent for >> years. When we returned to the state in 2012 we had a teenager, and that >> coupled with rising rates and massive insurance fraud had State Farm >> charging us almost $9k/year to insure three vehicles. >> >> Our friend/agent told us it was because “Things have gotten a lot worse down >> here since you left.” I started shopping, as there was no way I was going to >> pay close to $10k/year to insure our cars. Allstate was the most reasonable >> of the big insurers, so we went with them for like $4500/year (remember, I >> had a 16 year old driver in the house.) >> >> I called our friend/agent to tell her we were canceling our policy with >> State Farm after 32 years, and she was like, “Well, you should have told me! >> We’ll sharpen our pencils and see if we can get you a better deal.” >> >> “Nope. After 32 years, if you couldn’t give us your best deal up front, we >> don’t want to do business with you or State Farm. Good day.” >> >> We even pulled some life insurance away from her, which is difficult to do >> with State Farm. Had it transferred to another agent closer to home that we >> didn’t know. That was our final FU to her for screwing us. >> >> Allstate has done well for us, paid off quickly and fairly when we’ve had >> claims, and since they have some sort of interest in Hagerty they can even >> write policies for my old stuff at a very competitive rate. >> >> -D >> >> >> >> >>>> On Aug 22, 2020, at 6:02 AM, Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> I have houses insured with State Farm and Liberty Mutual. State Farm is >>> cheaper and easier to deal with but I never had a claim with either so I >>> can’t speak for which company is actually better. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>>> On Aug 21, 2020, at 11:13 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >>>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I ran a couple of online quotes and cheapest I came up with so far was >>>> Liberty Mutual. It was around $600-$1k cheaper depending on deductible. >>>> I have not tried State Farm yet. The problem is USAA and all these others >>>> put a rebuild value WAY higher than what we paid and what I figure the >>>> actual house is worth/would actually cost to replace. >>>> >>>>> On 8/21/2020 10:10 PM, Dimitri Seretakis wrote: >>>>> 4K is outrageous. Try State Farm. >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>>>> On Aug 21, 2020, at 10:08 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >>>>>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I have all of my insurance thru USAA, 2 houses, 4-5 cars etc. The >>>>>> insurance for our primary house is escrowed and I have not checked on it >>>>>> in a while. At one point both houses were around the same amount per >>>>>> year, low to mid $2k range. I just checked the policy online and was >>>>>> shocked I am now being charged over $4k for the main house now. The >>>>>> rental is still around $2.5k. This seems out of control and has now >>>>>> prompted me to start shopping. Anybody have a recommendation for >>>>>> homeowners insurance and/or auto? 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