home owners insurance

Hard times make for hard choices -- especially when it comes to prioritizing which bills get paid, when what you have is not enough to cover all your expenses. But there are some bills it behooves you to keep high on the priority list. A Tennessee homeowner found out the hard way this month when...

It's purely speculation at this point, but it's a question raised in The Telegraph, a popular paper in the United Kingdom: Could telling the world, on FourSquare or Twitter, that you're not in your house, raise your insurance rates? Darren Black, the head of Confused.com, an insurance comparison...

About seven years ago, shortly after my wife and I moved into our house, it started raining, and the roof began leaking. We hadn't been in the house a year, and so naturally we wondered if the previous owners of our home knew anything about this. But I hardly had time to dwell on the dampness of...