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Originally Posted by Bruceg0028
We’ve been in TV for 4 years and had to buy new homeowners every year. This was due to rate increases and a cancellation by one after being with them for 30 days. All asked for wind mitigation inspection that I had done when we bought the house. Only 1 asked for the 4 point inspection. The inspection was $100. We started with Slide last year and they actually reduced my rate for our upcoming renewal in September. Shocked me! I can’t say anything bad about Slide but I have not made a claim. We keep our deductible at $5K. Our attorney advised us to set it at it where I could afford to pay out of pocket. Any small claim will make you uninsurable or send your rates through the roof. Good Luck.
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Keep in mind that deductibles are applied to each occurrence. So if you had multiple claims in a policy year, you will pay $5,000 for each one plus any excluded costs. Most new Stare Farm policies require a % (5%?) the replacement value as deductible so part of the pricing game is the higher they set your replacement value, the higher your deductible & premiums will be. (Remember replacement value does not include the value of the land.)
We had an unwelcome reminder how quickly those costs can add up when we had 5 drivers with 3 teens on our State Farm auto policy once upon a time. Three auto claims in a year then they raised our rates followed by dropping us.We had had been with State Farm without any claims for decades before that year. No at faults & no tickets. Destroyed our brand loyalty to State Farm