Insure Your Rental Property
Posted by on Aug 04, 2011 | No Comments »
If you own rental property whether it is a house or an apartment you should carry landlords insurance or even buildings and contents insurance on the building and any property that is in your building. This will pay if there is an event that causes damage to your property. Without insurance on the building and property you could lose everything if there is a fire or flood. This is not insurance to cover damages to your tenants property but to cover yours. A tenant will have to get separate insurance to cover their property.
Landlord insurance will cover the building and any property inside that building that belongs to you. That means if you rent out a furnished apartment or house your furnishings will be covered by this insurance. The building will be covered. You can purchase two different types of landlords insurance. One will be more reasonable than the other.
The first type is replacement value insurance for property contents. This is the most expensive of the two but it will pay to replace whatever was lost. It does not depreciate the value first. That means you will get to replace everything with new property regardless of the age. Your premiums will be higher for this insurance. The other type of landlords insurance is cash value insurance. This type is the cheapest of the insurances. It will give you the value of what the property was worth at the time of the loss.
Things depreciate rapidly so you can expect to get much less than what it will cost you to replace it. Your premiums for this type of insurance will be very reasonable but you will have to pay towards everything you need to replace. In the long run it is probably better to carry replacement value and not have to worry about coming up with the money to replace your property. When you are talking about a furnished place your cost could be extreme. This insurance also will cover legal costs if you have a dispute with a tenant that you cannot resolve. It will not pay for the tenants belongings. They will have to get their own insurance to be protected.
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