Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 21:46-EDT From: Mark.Kantrowitz@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU To: bovik@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: Re: Apartment Insurance Forwarded from cmu.misc.market: Here are the results of my plea for help with renter's insurance. Thanks to all that responded! > Excerpts from mail: 7-May-91 insurance Monica.Cellio@K.GP.CS.CM (408) > Just last night I began the process of switching my renter's insurance > from Liberty Mutual to Prudential. Prudential's price is almost 20% lower > even *after* taking into account that I wanted to itemize a musical > instrument that I hadn't been itemizing before. The agent I dealt with > was very helpful and friendly; his name is Ed Molley and his number is > 366-0800. He even makes house calls! > Monica > Excerpts from mail: 7-May-91 Re: Apartment Insurance Paul > Woodford@raman.ece. (465) > Have you checked out Bovik? (In case you don't know what it is: Bovik is a > database of comments by students, faculty, and staff of CMU on all sorts of > things, including insurance. Try typing "man bovik" - I think that should > tell you all you need to know.) Personally, I have insurance with Craig > Evans, who is a State Farm agent in Squirrel Hill. I personally haven't had > any claims, but he had good recommendations in Bovik. > Paul > woodford@raman.ece.cmu.edu > Excerpts from mail: 7-May-91 apt. insurance Jeffrey.Friedl@NATASHA.M (1118) > I shopped around a bit, and one place (where I eventually got my insurance) > had a much lower price. Leshigo and Associates. If you call (they're in > the book), ask for Bob Leshigo. He sounds like a really nice guy, and if > you can get by his 3rd-grade handwriting (matches mine!), he seems pretty > comfortable to deal with. > I got $8,000 (or maybe $10,000 -- I don't remember) of coverage with > a $100 deductable for $70-something (it would have been less for the > more common $250 deductable, but not enough, I though, to make it worth it). > Some other kind of personal-liability insurance ($300,000) got thrown in > there, but I don't really know much about it... > I got this about a month or so ago. > Hope this helps, > *jeff* > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl jfriedl@cs.cmu.edu -or- jfriedl@omron.co.jp > Omron Corporation, Section RZE, Shimokaiinji, Nagaokakyo-city Kyoto 617, Japan > Currently, visiting researcher to the MACH project, Carnegie Mellon University > All apparent misspellings are really the result of dirty communication lines. > Excerpts from mail: 7-May-91 Re: Apartment Insurance Dana Lindsay > Rinehart (803+0) > My boyfriend and I got $14,000 worth of insurance (that's what we > roughly estimated the *present value* of our stuff to be worth) *with* > replacement value (which means that if our TV gets stolen, the insurance > pays the cost to go buy a brand new one, not what the old one was worth > when it was stolen) for about $100 a year. I also have my car insurance > with the same company, so I know that they gave us a bit of a break on > the price, but I don't know how much. We figured, for that price, we > can't afford to not get insurance. I think the price for the insurance > without replacement value was about $15 a year less. > Now that we have the insurance, I would pay twice that amount for the > peace of mind I have, knowing that we're insured. By the way, our > company is Amica. Good luck! > Dana Rinehart > Excerpts from mail: 7-May-91 Re: Apartment Insurance Howard C > Read@miata.ece. (368) > I shopped around and found Amiga to be generally helpful > and reasonable. At the end of each year, they return a portion > of your premium in the form of dividends. It usually > turns out this is about 25% of your premium. > I've never made a claim, so I can't tell you how helpful > they are with that, but they are friendly and helpful > with every other service. > -howard > Excerpts from mail: 9-May-91 Re: Apartment Insurance Russell Davis (222) > John, > I have a friend who works for a Insurance Company and I just purchased > tenants insurance and it is a flat rate no matter what agent you choose. > I premium is based on how much coverage you want, 10,000, 15,000 etc..