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Blog posts tagged with 'Insurance'

How To Turn Off Water to Your Home and Appliances

Team Goodcover 27 Jan 20224 min read

How To Turn Off Water to Your Home and Appliances

Whether your pipes are backed up, or you’re going out of town, here’s how to turn off the water to everything in your home, from toilets to washing machines.

Your Guide to San Francisco Renters Insurance

Team Goodcover 27 Jan 20227 min read

Your Guide to San Francisco Renters Insurance

San Francisco renters insurance can be tricky to understand. Discover the answers to the most-asked questions so you can make the best financial decision.

Does renters insurance cover bike theft?

Team Goodcover 25 Jan 20226 min read

Bike Theft and Renters Insurance – What You Need to Know

According to the national bike registry, 2 million bikes go missing in North America in any given year – meaning a bike gets swiped every 30 seconds, on average.

Are Your Belongings Covered in a Storage Unit?

Team Goodcover 19 Jan 20225 min read

Are Your Belongings Covered in a Storage Unit?

Your renters policy covers belongings located in a storage unit, but this coverage may have limits.

How Loss of Use Works With Your Renters Insurance Policy

Team Goodcover 12 Jan 20225 min read

How Loss of Use Works With Your Renters Insurance Policy

Loss of use in renters insurance policies provides coverage for most extra living expenses incurred if your rental becomes unlivable due to a covered peril.

The Truth About Renters Insurance: How Much Do You Really Need?

Team Goodcover 11 Jan 20226 min read

The Truth About Renters Insurance: How Much Do You Really Need?

Common renters insurance policies offer $30,000 personal property protection, but some individuals may need more.

Explained: The difference between Additional Interest and Named Insured, and what you need to know.

Ryan E. Moorhart 29 Sep 20215 min read

Explained: The difference between Additional Interest and Named Insured, and what you need to know.

Insurance industry terms can be confusing. It also doesn’t help when the words are so similar. Don’t take it personally. Even landlords can confuse the terms and end up asking their tenants for the wrong information. Leading our support team, I see various types of questions and confusion around insurance, and it's our duty to help bring clarity. Among the most common mixups we come across are members asking to include their landlord or property management company in their policy as a named in

How it Works: The Regulation of Insurance Companies, aka How Goodcover Offers Lower Prices

Christopher Lotz 10 Jun 20216 min read

How it Works: The Regulation of Insurance Companies, aka How Goodcover Offers Lower Prices

The regulation of insurance companies is vital for consumer protection. Read on to learn about how it works and how Goodcover can offer low prices

Is insurance more expensive in Black neighborhoods?

Christopher Lotz 6 Aug 20206 min read

Is insurance more expensive in Black neighborhoods?

Black neighborhoods pay 20% more in renters insurance. With the recent Black Lives Matter protests much of society has been re-examining explicit and implicit sources of discrimination against Black people in America. What are the conscious and unconscious ways our society and economy harm Black citizens? Housing and its associated cost has historically played a critical role in institutionalizing racism and segregation. Even insurance companies have historically discriminated against Black pe

Coronavirus and Crime – what the COVID is happening in SF?

Christopher Lotz 12 May 20205 min read

Coronavirus and Crime – what the COVID is happening in SF?

Coronavirus and crime trends, a look at the impact COVID19 and stay-at-home order is having in San Francisco.

Why is Renter's Insurance Required by some Landlords?

Dan Di Spaltro 17 Apr 20202 min read

Why is Renter's Insurance Required by some Landlords?

Landlords have begun requiring tenants to buy renter's insurance, we go into the details on the rationale behind that. They are after one specific protection...

Displaced by a crisis like COVID-19? What to know about your renters insurance coverage.

Team Goodcover 31 Mar 20205 min read

Displaced by a crisis like COVID-19? What to know about your renters insurance coverage.

If you’ve had to move because of the COVID-19 crisis, you might be asking the status of your insurance: is my stuff still covered? Do I need to update my insurer? Is my insurance going to get cancelled? We’ve been fielding these questions from our Members as colleges and universities have shut campuses, people have moved home to be with family, and some such as nurses and EMTs have temporarily moved to be closer to their life-saving work. (PS If you are a medical responder, we’d love to pay the

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