Buying your first home is a major milestone. However, it comes with major financial responsibilities, including protecting your home with homeowners insurance. While many first-time buyers focus on ...

David McMillin writes about credit cards, mortgages, banking, taxes and travel. Based in Chicago, he writes with one objective in mind: Help readers figure out how to save more and stress less. He is ...

Your homeowners insurance should cover siding damage after you’ve paid your deductible, provided a covered peril damaged it.

Floods hit even outside FEMA zones. Here’s when NFIP flood insurance is required—and why coverage may still be worth it.

After three tornadoes stemming from remnants of Hurricane Beryl touched down in western New York Wednesday, causing significant damage to homes, you may be wondering what your homeowners insurance ...

Homeowners across the nation are seeing rising home insurance costs. It's normal for these rates to go up about 5% every year, according to Consumer Reports, but they went up an average of 12% in 2023 ...

Farmers Insurance plans to increase the number of homeowners insurance policies it will write and begin offering coverage again for new customers in other types of dwellings, citing improvements in ...

With extreme weather events increasing in recent years, homeowners insurance companies have raised premiums or stopped offering coverage completely. Many of the policyholders hit with nonrenewal or ...

A family surveys the damage from fire on residence in Los Angeles. As homeowners survey the damage from the wildfires that tore through Southern California this month, it's tough to peg how much it ...

As homeowners survey the damage from the wildfires that tore through Southern California this month, it's tough to peg how ...