Home and Auto Insurance App

This is the seventh exercise in a series designed to walk you through an entire financial plan.  The exercise is embedded in an Excel spreadsheet you can download and save for personal use.  You can find the backdrop for the exercise HERE or just jump right in with the instructions given below:

In order to know if your home and auto insurance policies are providing you with the appropriate levels of coverage, you’ll want to collect the declaration pages for all of your home, auto, condo, and renter policies.  The Application Exercise online will provide a chart to fill in your various coverage limits next to our recommended minimum limits.

After you’ve tailored your desired limits with the help of an independent planner who does not accept commissions or referral fees for the sale of insurance, you can use the Application Exercise to shop your coverage with several carriers.

Click HERE to access the app!

The Economic Bias of Home and Auto Insurance Agents

Most of the time, we expect those in the financial sales realm to sell us MORE of something than we may need, because the more they sell, the more money they make, right?  But in one very interesting example—home and auto insurance agents—they may actually have an Economic Bias to sell us LESS than we need.  Please take 90 seconds to learn why: