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Condominium Insurance Michigan

1. Local Companies

2. Condominium Insurance Overview

3. Basics

4. Home Inventory

5. Featured Local Company

1 . Local Companies

G C videoINVENTORY Service
810-820-6832
336 west Ist street
Flint, MI

Healthy Indoor Environment, Inc.
800-894-1891
2321 Davista Dr.
Highland, MI

Skylofts
(248) 541-5638
101 Curry Ave
Royal Oak, MI

West Side Condos
(231) 276-9098
Griner Pkwy
Interlochen, MI

Pinestead Reef Resort
(231) 947-4010
1265 N US Highway 31 N
Traverse City, MI

Liberty Woods Senior Housing Co-Op
(616) 844-1980
201 Dewitt Ln
Spring Lake, MI

Tower Plaza Condominiums
(734) 994-5812
555 E William St
Ann Arbor, MI

Redstone Group Trillium Glen
(616) 647-2793
133 Water Lily Way NE
Grand Rapids, MI

Woodland Mews
(734) 761-2400
125 Fieldcrest St
Ann Arbor, MI

Chapel Hill Condominium Assn
(734) 761-6430
3330 Bologs Cir
Ann Arbor, MI

2 . Condominium Insurance Overview

Condo insurance is a type of insurance that is very much like home insurance or tenant insurance. Condo insurance is a policy that helps a condominium owner in Michigan protect their personal belongings. While the Condominium Association often insures the building that a condo is housed in, the actual condo and its contents are not covered under such insurance. Thus, the owner of the condominium in Michigan becomes responsible for the additional insurance: insurance that covers the condo and the belongings therein. The Condominium Association buys insurance that often covers the surrounding areas of the building, the actual building itself, and the areas that are shared by all of the condo owners. The purchased condo in Michigan is considered a separate unit, therefore requiring additional condo insurance. As a condo owner, you are responsible for understanding what is and is not covered by the insurance purchased by the Condominium Association. You will also be responsible for understanding your own condo insurance and what it covers.

Like homes that require home insurance, condominiums require a certain amount of coverage to protect all that is contained within the condo. While the insurance for a condo is not as extensive as one would purchase for a home, it is a policy that will reimburse a policyholder in the event that their condo or the property within it is damaged. The typical condo insurance policy contains protection for personal belongings and it also provides basic liability coverage: coverage that will protect the condo owner if someone should get hurt at the location in Michigan. An HO-6 is a form that a condo owner will have, that includes such protection when condo insurance is purchased.

Before buying condo insurance the condo owner will have to carefully review the Condominium Associations Declaration. This is a document that details what is covered by the Condominium Association’s insurance. Once the declaration is reviewed, the condo owner in Michigan will have a better idea of what kind of coverage they will actually require when it comes time to buy condo insurance.

3 . Basics

When you first address the Condominium Association and review the Association Declaration, you will have a far better idea about your condo insurance needs. Further, if there remain any questions after a complete review of the declaration, don’t hesitate to ask them. Make sure you question whether or not the outside areas of the condo are covered, and if so, what precisely is covered. The Condominium Association may also be able to provide you with some recommendations about where you can get condo insurance, and perhaps reveal to you recommendations by others who have condos in the building.

There are several things you will need to consider before you buy condo insurance. First and foremost, you will need to assess what your property in Michigan is worth. You can do this by sitting down and thinking about replacement costs. What do you think all of your personal property is worth? It helps if you take an extensive inventory of your property. How much is the condo worth if you were to lose everything? What kind of liability coverage do you think will be adequate? What kind of “acts of God” do you want covered: do you want coverage for fire, theft, vandalism, flooding are all of the latter mentioned events?

Let’s face it; three basic things have to be fulfilled before you will feel totally secure: First, you will need to get adequate coverage for your condo. Secondly, you will need to understand all of the ins and outs of your condo insurance. Third, you will need to know that your condo is covered, no matter what unexpected event may strike.

4 . Home Inventory

One of the most important things you can do before you buy home insurance or condo insurance is to create a detailed home inventory. In the event that something happens to your condo or your belongings, you will have a complete list of everything you owned. This will make replacement a bit easier, it will help you have a better handle on the amount of condo insurance or home insurance that you need; it will help any and all claims through the insurance company meet a speedier end; and it can serve as verification come tax time when you write off your losses. Finally, with a home inventory list, you will not be struggling to remember what property you had before you lost it.

One of the most convenient ways to create a home inventory list is to go through every room in your house or condo, one room at a time. If you are just purchasing a new condo, you can start by inventorying what is being unpacked, or you can conduct the inventory as you are packing. You will want to create a detailed list and you may want to create sub-headers for different types of belongings. For example, create a list that includes your clothing, electronics, furniture, collectibles, jewelry and the like.

A lot of people like to take photographs or video tapings of what they own. This works as proof that they actually owned the belongings in the event that the belongings are destroyed. Along with photographs and/or video, people also keep their receipts for purchases made. You will find that art and jewelry may fall under special insurance needs, but you will still want to inventory them anyway.

The most important measure you can make when you are creating a home inventory is to do it before you buy condo insurance and to keep the list in a location off the premises. For example, if you have a safety deposit box, that is where your home inventory should remain. At the very least, keep it in a fireproof safety box, and keep a copy of the list with someone you trust like a relative. Keep the inventory, the photos, the videos and whatever other important documentation you have in the same place for easy location. Finally, update the home inventory list at least once a year.

5 . Featured Local Company

G C videoINVENTORY Service

Before you need to prove what was owned get an inventory documented before it's too late.

810-820-6832
336 west Ist street
Flint, MI
www.gcvideoinventory.vpweb.com

Here at G C video we take pride in doing a timely job of documenting our clients personal belongings. Be it the home, which is very private. Or be it in the company business, which is very public. We're not counters and this is not bean fields, nor rocket science work. Neither are we property counters. What G C video does is document our clients personal things by, hard copy documentation and by digital and video photography. Once the personal valuables are documented. Then, we burn the values to DVD for the clients safe keeping.

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