Homeowners Insurance: State’s Insurance Health Good By Clete Campbell As any Iowan can tell you, in the Hawkeye State, you can go from unbearable winter to sweet summertime in a matter of hours. Iowa homes fearlessly stand up to any and all weather bullies: From January blizzards to April Super Rainstorms to June tornado threats […]
Don’t Sit On Buying Flood Insurance For Your Home, the NWS Warns An optimist would see Iowa’s chances of enduring major flooding this spring as a glass half empty. The Good Lord willing, the Hawkeye State’s creeks and rivers won’t rise too mightily this spring. But the National Weather Service and weather experts are warning […]
Read Your Policy’s Fine Print on Natural Disasters ACT OF GOD – A manifestation of a violent or destructive natural force, such as a lightning strike or an earthquake, which is beyond human power to cause, prevent or control.” –Webster’s New American Dictionary Not all Acts of God are covered equally. When it comes to […]
Now’s the Time for Iowa Homeowners to Ready Their Flood Defense Plan In one of Mother Nature’s cruelest twists of irony, nearly 10 years to the date of the devastating Iowa floods of 2018, flooded rivers and waters are again threatening numerous towns throughout eastern Iowa. A fury of early June rains have many of […]
“I grew up in Texas, but that was (long) ago. Last year (2016) in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We’re seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level,” Late Actor Bill Paxton (“Twister”) Ice fell from the sky above Vivian, S.D., without warning and mercy on July […]
Most homeowners know the toughest rule of the American Dream: the meter is always running. The U.S. Census Bureau pegs the average cost of running a household at $1,408 per month. That’s a daily homeownership cost of nearly $47. The cost of your mortgage, home maintenance, insurance and utilities adds up fast. Unfortunately, there are […]
Arguably, the greatest lesson Hurricane Harvey and the monstrous Category 5 Hurricane Irma have taught American homeowners is don’t chance living in a flood plain without flood insurance. The powerhouse combined force of two of the strongest hurricanes on record have left tens of thousands of Americans homeless, ruined up two one million cars, and […]
Nothing says summertime than grilling out or relaxing on an outdoor deck. Fewer home improvements add better aesthetic or financial value to your home than a stylish, stunning new deck. Alas, like Rome, no smart, good home deck is planned and built in a day. And with Improvenet.com reporting the average cost of adding a […]
Des Moines. Cedar Rapids. Burlington. Dubuque. Interstate 80. Out of nowhere and without warning, sinkholes are appearing all over Iowa and often swallowing everything in their path. And you thought teenagers had a bottomless appetite. This is no horror movie plot. This is reality for thousands of unsuspecting Midwest homeowners. As hundreds of evacuated homeowners […]
Sadly, Iowa’s great floods of 2016 and Hurricane Matthew’s remorselessly 120 mph wind wrath have left too many American families up a creek of financial disaster without a paddle. Families that chose to battle the United States’ two major natural disasters of fall 2016 without flood insurance are now facing a two-front storm: 1) The […]
