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can one purchase a landlord insurance policy and later add a homeowners insurance policy?


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5 Responses to “can one purchase a landlord insurance policy and later add a homeowners insurance policy?”

  1. froggy_deedoll Says:

    If you are renting out the home, you can purchase a landlord policy. If later on, you decide you are going to live in rather than rent it. The landlord policy can be cancelled/rewritten to a homeowners policy.

  2. mbrcatz17 Says:

    No. You can’t buy one type of policy, and "add" a different type of policy to it – you buy the one type, then you buy the other type. It’s like, you can’t add car insurance to your house insurance policy.

    If you convert the dwelling from a rental to your own home, then you cancel the landlord policy, and put a homeowners policy on it.

  3. Mary B Says:

    Yes, but ONLY if you are physically moving into the house.

    Don’t think you can make the switch and them not know it…because they will and if you suffer a loss they can deny the claim entirely.

  4. § Says:

    They are two separate policies. That’s like asking if you can add your house to your car policy. Sorry no can do.

  5. Gambit Says:

    If you are tlaking about a low rise apartment building, or a quadplex or higher building, no.
    If you are talking about you have purchased a home but it is occupied by tenant’s who will be leaving in a few months when the lease expires, and then you will move in after the tenant’s leave and occupy it as your principal residence, there are some companies who will consider a stand alone rented dwelling policy under their personal lines department as new business. They will agree to this if they know that the policy will be switched to a Homeowner’s Policy on a set date (I have done this for a client). Mind you the house will have to be a good risk (newer house or older homes that have been updated and well maintained). Also you will need to find a broker who has a good rapport with their underwriter to convince them to go along with this.
    If you are talking about you own and live in house A and you bought house B as a rental income property, however the company that insures house A won’t insured Rented Dwellings, then it would be more cost effective to find a company that will insure both locations, even if it means cancelling house A’s policy mid-term.

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