Types Of Insurance Plans To Avoid

insurance-plan Companies sell insurance to help the average consumer relieve some of the fear of the unknown. We don't know what's going to happen to us in the future, and that fear of the unknown is often what drives us to purchase insurance. While there are many good reasons to buy insurance, there are also many insurance policies you can, and should, live without.

Private Mortgage Insurance isn't for you,  it's used to protect the lender against loss and is a policy required to high risk mortgage borrowers. There are no benefits to you as the borrower of this insurance policy. To avoid paying PMI, you need a downpayment on your home of 20% or more. A smaller downpayment puts you in the high risk pool of borrowers. Alternatively, you can put down 10% of the purchase price and take out two home loans, one for 80% of the sale price of the property and one for 10% just make sure that interest rates work out in your favor, if you are only approved for high interest rates it's possible the PMI rate is actually lower than having two loans.

Rental Car Insurance as part of your regular car insurance policy, there are a number of automobile insurance policies that allow you to add rental car insurance. You amortize the price over your lifetime, so it doesn't seem like costly coverage but how often do you really rent a car? Do you have a credit card that includes rental car insurance coverage if you pay for the rental on the card? Chances are, you're just wasting money paying for rental car insurance as part of your every day car insurance policy.

Flight Insurance, do you purchase flight insurance whenever you board an airplane? Sure, your family will get $100,000 or whatever the amount your policy covers in the event the plane comes down and you don't survive  but if you have a life insurance policy, chances are you're covered already against a catastrophe like a plane crash. Check into your life insurance policy to see whether or not purchasing flight insurance is necessary.

Flood Insurance, here are only a few areas of the country that actually are at risk for flood damage. If you're not located next to a large source of water, chances are you're not going to be flooded! If your neighbors have never had flood damage, you probably won't be the first house on the street to be flooded!