{"id":26,"date":"2021-09-30T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.securuminsurance.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2023-09-21T16:40:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T22:40:13","slug":"how-renters-insurance-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.securuminsurance.com\/blog\/how-renters-insurance-works\/","title":{"rendered":"How Renters&#8217; Insurance Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a renter, you may be required by your landlord to have renters&#8217; insurance. But even if you aren&#8217;t required, you still need this valuable and cost-effective insurance for as long as you rent. To find out more, give us a call at Securum LLC in Bellevue, WA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coverage for Your Possessions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to cover the rented space itself with insurance, as the owner has to do that. Most of what you are covering are your belongings. This coverage protects you against a wide range of incidents that can result in your belongings being destroyed or damaged. When this happens, your renters&#8217; insurance policy can pay for you to replace and\/or repair your items that were damaged. Without this coverage, it may be very hard to come up with the money to replace all of your possessions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Protection for Liability<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though you don&#8217;t own the property, if you are living there, you can be held liable if someone were to get hurt there. If a third party was in your rental and had an accident, you can be judged at fault for that accident and have to pay the person&#8217;s medical bills as well as their lost wages. Your renters&#8217; policy will handle those expenses so you aren&#8217;t left with enormous bills to pay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Lifestyle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If there were a covered incident in which your rental was badly damaged, you would likely not be able to stay there. That&#8217;s where your renters&#8217; insurance comes in. It will pay for you to live elsewhere until your rental unit is repaired. This helps you to preserve your lifestyle so you aren&#8217;t trapped in an uninhabitable space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get Your Renters&#8217; Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to get and keep a renters&#8217; policy. If you don&#8217;t have one, call us at Securum LLC in Bellevue, WA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a renter, you may be required by your landlord to have renters&#8217; insurance. But even if you aren&#8217;t required, you still need this valuable and cost-effective insurance for as long as you rent. To find out more, give us a call at Securum LLC in Bellevue, WA. Coverage for Your Possessions You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bellevue-wa","tag-securum-llc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securuminsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securuminsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securuminsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securuminsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securuminsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.securuminsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/www.securuminsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securuminsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securuminsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securuminsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}