Percentage Of Americans Without Homeowners Insurance More Than Doubles In Five Years The Insurance Information Institute recently conducted a study which revealed that the percentage of Americans without homeowner’s insurance has more than doubled since 2019. Currently, 12% of American homeowners have opted to go without insurance, compared to only 5% in 2019. Rising premiums […]
LINCOLN COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – The only thing I could hear on Furnace Road Extension this April morning was the wind whipping the house wrap outside of Lisandra Flores’ unfinished home. The birds were soaking up the warmth of the morning sun and the wind helped clear the dew that had settled overnight. […]
Damaged canals, bulkhead failures and sinkholes that happened on North Padre Island during Tropical Storm Alberto have left homeowners seeking immediate action to repair the properties. A photo showing washout and erosion that happened beneath Dave and Kim Edgecomb’s house on Cutlass Avenue on North Padre Island during Tropical Storm Alberto. The damage is to […]
State Farm General is seeking to dramatically increase residential insurance rates for millions of Californians, a move that would deepen the state’s ongoing crisis over housing coverage. In two filings with the state’s Department of Insurance on Thursday signaling financial trouble for the insurance giant, State Farm disclosed it is seeking a 30% rate increase […]
Theresa Drift (left) talks to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz about the flood damage sustained at her home in Cook from Tuesday’s rain. Drift’s basement took on about eight feet of water. Photo by Jerry Burnes/Iron Range Today. Reprinted with permission from Iron Range Today. COOK — At the Comet Theater, Ryan Horner walked to the back […]
It was 2019 when Anjali Tierra decided that homeowners insurance wasn’t worth the price. The retired high school teacher, 58, took out a policy in late 2018 after purchasing a three-bedroom home nestled in the Tehachapi Mountains of southern California. She considered the insurance affordable at less than $100 a month, and the coverage brought […]
The owner of a pool company accused of defrauding Florida homeowners of more than a million dollars is now serving an 18-year prison sentence. According to court records, Ricardo Duerto ran Villa Pavers and Pools. State officials said he defrauded nearly 100 homeowners in multiple counties, including Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties. Watch: ‘We’re […]
Jun. 12—It’s a classic ambition: the desire to own your own white-picket-fenced home — or adobe bungalow, as the case may be. But, as indelible as homeownership may be to the American Dream, federal policymakers don’t do much to help would-be buyers finance their first home, said Michael Loftin, CEO of Homewise Inc., a nonprofit […]
If you had to name the state where a Vietnam war veteran almost lost his apartment for owning the wrong kind of dog; in which a ring of thieves made off with millions of dollars of residents’ money they were obligated to look after; and where a family was threatened with legal action over decorative […]
A house on Fortune’s Rocks beach in Biddeford, Maine tilts after a series of severe coastal storms in winter 2024. The house was later torn down. (Maine Morning Star) U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine introduced legislation this week designed to aid coastal homeowners amid increasingly frequent storms. Pingree, a Democrat representing Maine’s 1st Congressional […]
Residents of a house in Nottinghamshire say they have been left “sick” by the sight of their neighbours’ overgrown garden after years of neglect. Mandy Evans, 59, moved into the property in Newark with her friend Fredrick Western, 71, around two years ago and found the next door garden had already started to encroach into […]
Purchasing a home comes with significant costs beyond just the mortgage. Property taxes stand out as a perpetual expense, varying widely depending on location. For some homeowners, this can mean an annual bill ranging from $1,000 to $9,000. Here are the 10 states with the highest median property tax bills, using data from the U.S. […]