为什么我的home insurance quote这么高啊?

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首次买房,25年很一般的house,总面积约1800 sqft, quote了几家公司,报价至少是700多/年,这样正常吗?请高人指点。
另外auto insurance也很高,即使与房子一起保。13年的老车总值不到三千,一年的保险却要一千多,哎!
 
好象是有点高,保险和你的房子老旧没有关系。保险公司考虑的是如果你的房子没有了重建要多少钱,现在人工和材料都在上涨,保险费也涨。人工是每法减的,只能从材料上下手。你能做的是,多问几家公司报价,提供你的情况是,要说靠近消防栓,屋顶的材料说是最便宜的一种,屋内都是地毯等等,总之如果重建房子的话,公司会按你提供的东西重建。还有你的deductivable,如果是500的话,费用也会高,要是1000的话,好象是会每月低100多or so.
车保险是和你的驾龄,年纪,性别及车的价值,你的deductivable,还有你的车用途有关,你可以做的是加大deductivable,说是周末买菜用的,会有帮助。
 
多谢aiya的tips,我将试着做些新的quote.
 
有个新问题。我试着调整online quote的参数来得到对房子不同的估价,发现估价越低的话保费也低一些,但降低的数量是不成比例的,估价降10万保费降300/年。看来保费是与对房子的估价直接相关的。不知靠压低估价来降低保费这样做是否合适?
 
If you don't give the right appraisal of your house value, when your house is damaged and you need to claim insurance for replacement, you will not get enough to rebuild it.

Some insurance with higher premium or better coverage might include additional coverage when your house needs to be replaced at higher value in future.

However, I suggest that you also check with group insurance like university alumni affinity or your working company's affinity. We got a very high quote before, and when switch to a group insurance it's much more reasonable with better coverage.
 
估价depends on all the data you give to them. if you give them that your house is small, everything you have were using the cheapest material, plus close to hydrant(in case of fire,easy to save your house) or you have alarm system(in case of someone break your house). It will help to lower your 估价. the problem is what kliu said if it is something happens to your house, you wont get what you want, you will get the cheapest thing.
two more things could help lower your premium
1, sometimes they ask you to have sewer coverage in case of basement flood.(most of the time you dont need it especially your basement is not finished and some basements have pump to drain the water out)
you dont have to pay that.
2, some companies may include household insurance, you can ask them lower that too(that is for your furniture, jewellery, food, appliances,clothes etc)
so if you worry something happens someday, you can get better reward if you pay more now. otherwise you know it.
 
Actually I'm making quote at allstate.ca and it allows you to change field values to get a new quote. I've selected the "close to hydrant" options and $1000 deductible. For Broadform Coverage, there are always two more items in addition to the Dwelling Building: Family Liability $10.00, Sewer Backup Coverage $40.00. Don't see a way to get rid of them.

As kliu mentioned, maybe I should try some group insurance companies. I'll call a university alumni affinity like Meloche Monnex soon. Don't know if there are other options.
 
Tried Meloche Monnex, and ING by broker, got a little bit lower quotes, still house > 600, car > 900 per year.
 
When you try Monnex, remember to ask for all groups of affinity you belong to. I belong to several of the affinity groups, and I picked one that has the highest discount. Some years ago when I asked one insurance company, they told me that my university alumni group rate is about 15% off, my working company group rate is 25% off, my husband's working company group rate is 35% off, and my professional membership group rate is 45% off, so it makes quite a bit of difference.
 
Does anyone know the group discount rate for Chinese Professionals Association of Canada with Meloche Monnex?
 
最初由 sandx 发布
Does anyone know the group discount rate for Chinese Professionals Association of Canada with Meloche Monnex?

You can always call them or do an online quote at http://www.melochemonnex.com/en/home/ I think they offer free draw for a car when you do a quotation.
 
Unfortunately, quote from pcinsurance is high for me. Maybe have to accept high price with no or short insurance history and no good group insurance plans available. ;)
 
我打了几家, 房子的replacement value竟然差了$10万??? The personal估的最高, TD Meloche估的最低... 可保费差不多...糊涂啦...:confused:
 
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我打了几家, 房子的replacement value竟然差了$10万??? The personal估的最高, TD Meloche估的最低... 可保费差不多...糊涂啦...:confused:

TD Monnex's one has the million protection (you have to check your plan), so if your house is destroyed and the rebuild cost is 1 million higher than their estimation, they will still give you that 1 million.
 
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