It's important to get the right insurance for an Airbnb.

How do I insure an Airbnb?

A lot of people who travel are looking for alternatives to hotels, which is how Airbnb took off into a thriving business. It might seem like a quick and easy way to make some money, especially if you’ve got a place in an ideal area where people are going to want to stay. However, that begs the question – how do you insure an Airbnb? Getting insurance for an Airbnb might seem complicated, but we’re going to go over the basics.

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Protect your home from wind damage.

How to prevent wind damage to your home

So, we’ve all heard the expression “batten the hatches.” (If not, that’s okay.) Basically, it means to tighten and seal all the doors and windows and hunker down because a storm’s coming and it’s a fierce one. Wind damage is a major threat to a house – Mother Nature doesn’t play around, especially when summer rolls in and those storms sweep on through. It’s important to protect your house from the “water” part of storm damage, but you can’t forget about wind. Here are nine tips to protect your home from wind damage.

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What insurance would you need if you were in the Avengers universe?

How much insurance would you need in The Avengers universe?

Okay, so we’re getting pretty pumped about the premiere of the new Avengers movie, Endgame. The last Avengers movie, Infinity Wars, left off at such a cliff-hanger that we’ve been tapping our feet in impatience ever since. Anyways, we greatly enjoy the superhero antics (and squabbling) in the movies, but we noticed that there’s a lot of destruction that goes on – collateral damage if you will. We can’t help but wonder what would happen if we lived in the Avengers universe with the gaggle of superheroes – and supervillains – running around. More specifically, we’re wondering how much insurance the average person should carry if they shared a city with these guys. In case you forgot, New York City gets pretty trashed.

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It's important to get your insurance sorted out before hurricane season.

Get your home insurance ready for Atlantic hurricane season

Okay, we get that it might seem a little early to be talking about hurricane season. There’s nothing to worry about quite yet, is there? There’s still time before the big storms hit, right? Well, sure, but the thing is that it’s important to give yourself time to get your insurance situation sorted out. Here are five things to know about hurricane season and home insurance – we’ll explain why it’s never too early to prep your insurance for hurricane season.

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Generally, home insurance covers falling objects - including meteorites.

Does home insurance cover asteroids, meteors, and falling satellites?

So, here’s a great hypothetical for you: what happens if a meteor hits your house? What about an asteroid? Or what about a satellite that makes the life-changing decision that its true fate is no longer to be in space but to crash-land down to earth? Because, you know, stuff that’s meant to be in space (asteroids, meteors, and satellites, for example) don’t always stay in space. Sometimes they decide to, you know, relocate to earth. On top of your house. Because clearly, that’s a great place for it to be. Anyways – back to the question at hand: does home insurance cover a meteor, asteroid, or satellite if it crashes through your roof? Let’s explore that.

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It's important to ask a few questions when you get home insurance.

7 questions to ask when you get home insurance

When you get home insurance, it’s important to ask the right questions. But what are the right questions to ask? How can you know what questions to ask if no one ever told you? They don’t exactly teach Insurance 101 in school. To help you figure out what you should be asking the insurance agent helping you with your policy, we’ve come up with a list of seven questions.

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It's important to read your home insurance policy.

7 reasons to read your home insurance policy all the way through

Okay, okay, we get it: insurance might not be your favorite thing in the world to think about. And it’s probably not your favorite thing to read about either. In other words, when you got your (very lengthy) home insurance policy, you kind of squinted at it and then stuffed it in a drawer somewhere.

We get it. That thing is intense.

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Be sure to have a rental agreement when you're renting out your home.

10 tips if you’re renting out your home

If you’re going to be away from home for a while, you might be considering renting out your house so you can earn some extra cash. You may as well let your house earn its keep, right? It’s not like you’re going to be using it anyway. Renting your home, though it may seem like a great idea, opens you up to liability. Here are ten things to keep in mind if you’re going to rent your home.

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Get engagement ring insurance for your new jewelry.

How to insure your engagement ring

If you just got engaged, congratulations! It’s a very exciting time. You’ve got a wedding to plan, guests to invite, a venue to choose, and about a million other things to do. But already you’re worried that something might happen to the ring – the sparkly, gorgeous, beautiful ring now attached to your left hand. It’s so shiny and it means so much to you; you’d be heartbroken if anything happened to it. That’s why you’re wondering how to insure your engagement ring. Here’s what you need to know about getting engagement ring insurance.

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