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Before you insure your home, you have to have some basic knowledge about what you are going to get involved with in order to be able to choose the right insurance provider and the right types of insurance cover.
In general home insurance can be of two types – building insurance and contents insurance.
Building insurance covers your building. Imagine your house when it had just been constructed – bare walls, no furniture, no household appliances, no pictures, only windows, doors and floors. Everything that is related to your building and its structure is building insurance. Contents insurance covers everything that is mobile – furniture, electronics, clothes, decoration elements, etc. The difference between these two types of insurance is quite distinct, but still sometimes they slightly merge.
In addition to building and contents insurance you can get extras. These are additional policies that you may or may not add to your insurance, if you need. You have to make a list of everything that you need to insure in order not to miss something out. A good insurance is characterized by one global feature – if your house is totally destroyed and there is nothing left at all, a good insurance will cover everything from A to Z, including the cost of rebuilding works and other expenditures. Whether your insurance is good is greatly dependant on you.
One thing you have to bear in mind is that it is very hard not to miss anything out and not to fail to notice some minor pitfalls in your insurance. These pitfalls may sometimes be so unnoticeable and obscure that even a professional may not notice them. For example, it often happens that insurance providers refuse to cover damage caused by people who live inside the house. It seems not that important, but eventually, if your house is destroyed with fire and this is the fault of someone of the tenants, the cover will not take place. In order to avoid such a situation make sure you read the small print carefully and add all the extras you may possibly need.
Landlords and tenants do not have to purchase both types of insurance. It is up to landlords to insure their building, and tenants have to handle contents insurance. It is a common situation when the very building is the property of the landlord and the contents belong to the tenants. But the situation is different when the tenants rent their dwelling on a furnished basis – in this case they have to insure the things they possess, and the landlord has to insure furniture and fittings.
It can be really hard to find a good and honest insurance provider, but your peace of mind and sound sleep are totally worth the time and money you spend on your home insurance.
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