{"id":6,"date":"2011-10-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/three-things-you-should-know-prior-to-buying-colorado-homeowners-insurance\/"},"modified":"2014-07-16T14:16:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T14:16:57","slug":"three-things-you-should-know-prior-to-buying-colorado-homeowners-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/three-things-you-should-know-prior-to-buying-colorado-homeowners-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Things You Should Know Prior to Buying Colorado Homeowners Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado homeowners insurance is a necessity for you if you own a home in Colorado. Here are three things you should know before you buy your Colorado home insurance policy:<\/p>\n<p><b>Make sure you buy the right policy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>All home insurance in Colorado is not created equal. Your policy should cover four things in order to be fully protected:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The contents of your house (your possessions)<\/li>\n<li>The structure of your house<\/li>\n<li>Your liability to others in the event you are found responsible for injuries or accidents that occur on your property, and<\/li>\n<li>Your living expenses if you are forced out of your house in the event it becomes unlivable, such that you must live someplace else<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Buy replacement value insurance<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is a mistake many people make when they buy home insurance in Colorado. You should <i>always <\/i>buy replacement value insurance so that your possessions will be replaced at &quot;new value&quot; levels; in other words, that&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll spend to replace current (used) possessions with new ones. If you opt for insurance coverage that only covers &quot;current value&quot; levels of your possessions, you may not have enough money to replace everything you need to.<\/p>\n<p><b>Make sure you understand the claims process clearly <i>before <\/i>disaster strikes<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Your Colorado home insurance agent should clearly explain what you need to have in hand in order to have a claims process go smoothly. Make sure you understand the claims process <i>before <\/i>anything happens, and put the agent&#8217;s instructions in a safe place, along with your inventory and other documentation.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado homeowners insurance is a necessity for you if you own a home in Colorado. Here are three things you should know before you buy your Colorado home insurance policy: Make sure you buy the right policy All home insurance in Colorado is not created equal. Your policy should cover four things in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-insurance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}