{"id":220,"date":"2018-02-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insureyourtoy.com\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2018-02-28T20:04:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T20:04:03","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-homeowners-and-renters-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insureyourtoy.com\/blog\/what-is-the-difference-between-homeowners-and-renters-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Difference Between Homeowners And Renters Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renters insurance protects your personal property which is not protected by a condo association or your landlord, while renters and homeowners face similar risks.&nbsp; Reports establish that only 37 percent of renters have renters insurance.&nbsp; Renters insurance premiums are different depending on where you live.<\/p>\n<p>Renters should be aware that that owner&#8217;s insurance policy is typically not written to cover any losses to the renter&#8217;s property if it is damaged or destroyed.&nbsp; There are rental policies that required renters to insure their property.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The landlord and the homeowner have similar risks. There is a definite advantage to the landowner if renters protect their property such as:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*&nbsp; To protect the landlord from renter&#8217;s&nbsp; who sue the landlord for any property damage claiming the landlord has responsibility.<br \/>\n*&nbsp; If the tenant claims it cannot afford insurance the landlord has the opportunity to not to rent to a tenant that presents a risk.<br \/>\n*&nbsp; &nbsp;The Landlord shifts the risk to the tenant to reduce its responsibility.<br \/>\n*&nbsp; &nbsp;Tenant damages to the apartment will cover the landlord&#8217;s deductible on its policy.<br \/>\n*&nbsp; &nbsp;If the tenant is a business renter the tenant&#8217;s business is protected by its commercial business policy and not by the landlord&#8217;s policy.<\/p>\n<p>The major difference between a landlord\/homeowner and renters policy is cost.&nbsp; Renter&#8217;s insurance cost less than homeowners unless the renter is a business covered by its commercial policy.<\/p>\n<p>The landlord\/homeowner&#8217;s policy covers structure while renter&#8217;s policy mainly covers personal property.&nbsp; However, both policies are similar in determining loss either based upon actual cash value or replacement value.&nbsp; There&nbsp;exclusions that may not cover unusual personal property or environmental threats.&nbsp; It is clear that as a renter you lose autonomy.&nbsp; Some insurers will exclude certain types of animals or breed of dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renters insurance protects your personal property which is not protected by a condo association or your landlord, while renters and homeowners face similar risks.&nbsp; Reports establish that only 37 percent of renters have renters insurance.&nbsp; Renters insurance premiums are different depending on where you live. Renters should be aware that that owner&#8217;s insurance policy is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[86,87],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-insurance","tag-commercial","tag-renters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insureyourtoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insureyourtoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insureyourtoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insureyourtoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insureyourtoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.insureyourtoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/www.insureyourtoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insureyourtoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insureyourtoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insureyourtoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}