Home Insurance

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As entrepreneurs, we tend to spend so much time focused on our business that anything not directly related to that gets shoved onto the backburners. But, if paying a little more attention to something on the home front can save us money, doesn’t that help our business as well? This article provides a number of different ways that you can use to save on the cost of your home insurance. It’s expensive, but we all need it, so how can we make the most of our money? Read on.

First of all, it’s important not to simply buy the first package you hear about. Your Uncle Marty who has been working at that insurance company down the road for fifteen years might not actually be offering you the best rate quotes available. Shop around. Check with a number of different companies to see what’s available. Ask your family and friends what policy they have and if they are satisfied with it. Also, check with your auto insurance company; often, companies will offer discounts if you buy more than one package with them.

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To Insure Your Health

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Health Savings Accounts (HSA) are becoming more popular as the cost of health insurance continues to increase.

An HSA is a special bank account that is set up in conjuctions with the enrollment in a high deductible health plan (HDHP).

You, your employee or an eligible family member can make tax free contributions to the HSA. The HSA will earn interest that is not taxed and any withdrawals to pay for qualified medical expenses are also not taxed. Any funds remaining in the account at the end of each year is carried over to the next year.

The contribution to an HSA each year is limited to the amount of the HDHP deductible or $2,650 for individuals and $5,250 for families, whichever is less. You or your employee may not contribute to an HSA once you or your eomployee becomes eligible for and enrolled in Medicare. Your or your eomployee can make withdrawals to pay for qualified medical expenses by check or debit card just as you would with any other bank account.

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Auto Insurance

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When it comes to protecting yourself, you need to think about more than just your business. As entrepreneurs, we are often quick to purchase policies that cover our own lives or our companies. However, we fail to purchase adequate protection for one of the most crucial things to both our business and personal lives: our car. Auto insurance is a contract in which one party agrees to pay for another’s financial loss resulting from a specific event that has caused damage to their car. It may not come cheap, but you don’t ever want to be caught without it. You never know when that next storm will come or when somebody will miss the red light and run into your car instead.

Protecting your car – and any cars your business may provide to employees – is an expensive business, which entices many to try and cut corners. Like any other insurance, naturally, there are minimal packages available. But, do you really want to risk not having the full protection if you some day by accident hit that Porsche Boxster? Guaranteed, if you hit an expensive sports car, minimal insurance packages will not be enough to cover you. You will wind up on the side of the street wondering why you hadn’t paid those few extra dollars to get you complete coverage.

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