Should you insure your home for the market value or the replacement cost?

| June 19, 2018

Should you insure your home for the market value or the replacement cost (what it would cost to rebuild)?

Before I answer that question I got another question for you: Would it cost more or less to rebuild your house if it were on 10 acres of property compared to a 1/4 acre of inland property?  The answer is…of course it would cost about the same in both places, but the home on 10 acres would sell for quite a bit more! You should insure your property for the cost to rebuild after a fire.

So how do you know how much it would cost to rebuild? If you have had a recent appraisal there'll be an estimate on that appraisal report.  If you haven’t had a recent appraisal you can contact our office and we would be happy to give you a free estimate of your reconstruction cost.

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