If your insurance company has canceled your homeowners insurance because your home is vacant, contact the experts at Pathway Insurance. 

Call 513-662-7000 or 1-800-998-0662. 

We can insure most vacant properties in Ohio, no matter if that is a commercial building or single family residential units. 

Call and speak with one of our professional licensed representatives who can assist in acquiring insurance for vacant properties. 

We offer vacant home insurance in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and Indiana. 

If you do not live in one of the four states indicated click Vacant Home Insurance to obtain quotes in the remaining 46 states.

This Is Why Most Insurance Companies Will Not Insure a Vacant Home.

A standard homeowner’s insurance policy is designed to insure homes that are occupied, not vacant.  A vacant home represents a greatly increased exposure to the insurance company for vandalism and liability claims. 

The typical homeowner’s insurance company will issue a cancellation as soon as they learn that your property is vacant.

What Danger Do You Face If You Own a Vacant Home?

Because the majority of insurance companies do not wish to insure vacant homes, insurers have placed within the fine print of their policy language homeowner’s insurance exclusions for properties that become vacant. 

If a certain type of homeowners claim occurs, your insurance company will refuse to pay simply because your home is vacant! 

How do you obtain coverage for vacant homes?

How to Insure Vacant Homes?

Vacant Homeowners Insurance is only available through a limited number of insurance companies, so therefore you need to work with a professional insurance agent who understands how to insure buildings that become vacant.

How We Can Help You Insure Your Vacant Home?

Pathway Insurance Services Inc. is an independent insurance agency directly offering insurance for vacant homes in Cincinnati. (We can help you obtain insurance for vacant properties in all 50 states.)

Call 513-662-7000 to speak with one of our professional representatives who can assist you in obtaining vacant building insurance. Business insurance coverage for vacant properties is also available for commercial buildings, apartment buildings, and undeveloped land.

Cincinnati Home Insurance Coverage Comparison

When you are shopping for home insurance coverage in Cincinnati you want to keep in mind that the coverage quoted from company to company may differ significantly.  

Call 513-662-7000 to receive free comparisons on homeowners insurance, or you can use our convenient online quote system by choosing : Cincinnati Home Insurance Quote.

As was mentioned in the previous article:  What’s not covered on my Home Insurance Policy?

A home insurance policy does not provide unlimited coverage, so you should take time to understand where any potential gaps in coverage may be apparent.  Now we will discuss further limitations of coverage on the home, condo, or renters policy.

As will be discussed in more detail in another article the home policy (Condo and Renters policy have different coverage parts) and what is covered is broken down into something called  “Sections”.  Section 1 for the home policy has 4 distinct coverage parts:

We Will Focus Specifically on Coverage C- Personal Property Limitations of Coverage.

Certain types of personal property are either not covered, or they have limitations on the maximum amount of money that will be paid for those items in the event of a loss for instance:

Computers, especially lap top computers or business equipment that you keep in your home.

Antique furniture and Fine Arts.

Theft of jewelry, watches, precious and semi-precious stones and furs, including any article containing fur which represents its principal value. 

Theft of silverware, silver-plated ware, goldware, gold-plated ware, platinumware, platinum-plated ware and pewterware.

Theft of guns.

Theft of sports cards or other collectible cards.

Theft of hand tools (not including lawn and garden tools and equipment).

Money, bank notes, bullion, coins and medals and other numismatic property and precious metals including platinum, gold and silver, but not goldware or silverware.  

Securities, accounts, deeds, evidence of debt, letters of credit, notes other than bank notes, passports, manuscripts, tickets, stamps and other philatelic property. This dollar limit applies to these categories regardless of the medium (such aspaper or computer software) on which the material exists. The limit includes the cost to research, replace or restore the information from the lost or damaged material.

This is a brief list of common personal property items that have limited or no coverage.  Certain companies may have endorsement riders that can be attached to the policy that will provide a limited amount of coverage, but your deductible would apply.  Or you can schedule a individual item on something called an inland marine property schedule.

Always read your individual policy for complete detail?

Remember the worst possible time to learn you do not have the correct amount of coverage is after a claim occurs.

Need Help in Choosing the Correct Home Insurance Policy?

Call 513-662-7000 to speak with our licensed representatives or to receive an online insurance quote, click on: Home Insurance Quote Cincinnati

Cincinnati Homeowners Insurance Policies Do Not Provide Coverage For All Possible Events.

Are you looking for the best Ohio Home Insurance coverage?  Call the homeowners experts at 513-662-7000.  Or if you’d like to start the process of receiving an online quote, choose: Ohio Online Home Quote. 

As is true with any type of insurance that you purchase, what is covered on your Home Insurance policy can vary by insurance company.  

You should definitely take time to read what is covered and what is not. 

Limitations of coverage will once again be listed in the EXCLUSIONS section of your home policy. 

Let’s review a few common EXCLUSIONS on a typical home, condo, or renters policy.  (Not all Exclusions are listed) 

Earthquake or other earth movement including loss caused by, contributed to or aggravated by landslide; mine subsidence; mudflow, earth sinking, rising or shifting. We do cover direct loss that follows caused by fire, explosion or breakage of glass.

Earthquake coverage can be added with most companies for an additional premium.

Water damage, meaning: (a) flood, surface water, waves, tidal water or overflow of a body of water. We do not cover spray from any of these, whether or not driven by wind; (b) Water or water-borne material which backs up through sewers or drains or which overflows or is discharged from a sump, sump pump or related equipment; or (c)  Water or water-borne material below the surface of the ground. This includes water which exerts pressure on or flows, seeps or leaks through any part of a building or other structure, sidewalk, driveway, foundation or swimming pool; caused by or resulting from human or animal forces or any act of nature. We do cover direct loss that follows, caused by theft, fire or explosion.

It may be possible to add a water back up endorsement to your home, condo, or renters policy for an additional premium.  A separate flood policy can be purchased to cover what your home policy excludes.

Vandalism or malicious mischief, including intentionally set fires, if the dwelling has been vacant for more than 30 consecutive days immediately preceding the loss. A building under construction is not considered vacant.

If your home is vacant more than 30 days you can purchase Cincinnati Vacant Homeowners Insurance coverage. Click on Ohio Vacant Home Insurance.

Neglect of an insured person to use all reasonable means to protect covered property at and after the time of loss.

Example:  If a lightning bolt puts a big hole in your roof and you take no reasonable actions to prevent rain from entering your home which in turn causes additional damage to your home, the insurance company can refuse to pay for the damages.

(a) wear and tear, marring, or scratching, deterioration; (b) inherent vice, latent defect, mechanical breakdown; (c) smog, rust or other corrosion, mold, mildew or fungus, wet or dry rot; (d)smoke from agricultural smudging or industrial operations; (e) discharge, dispersal, seepage, migration, release or escape of pollutants unless the discharge, dispersal, seepage, migration, release or escape is itself caused by a Peril We Insure Against under Personal Property Coverage of this policy. Pollutants means any solid, liquid, gaseous or thermal irritant or contaminant, including smoke, vapor, soot, fumes, acids, alkalis, chemicals and waste. Waste includes materials to be recycled, reconditioned or reclaimed; (f) settling, shrinkage, bulging or expansion, including resultant cracking, of pavements, patios, foundations, walls, floors, roofs or ceilings; (g) birds, vermin, rodents or insects; or (h)animals owned or kept by an insured person. If, because of any of these, water escapes from a plumbing, heating, automatic fire protection sprinkler or air conditioning system domestic appliance, we cover loss caused by the water. We also cover the cost of tearing out and replacing any part of the covered building necessary to repair the system or appliance. We do not cover loss to the system or appliance from which the water escapes. 

Your home insurance policy does not cover maintenance issues, wear and tear, mechanical breakdown.  For instance, if your foundation cracks because of a lack of moisture that is not something that your homeowners insurance policy would extend coverage for.  (If your foundation cracks due to an earthquake and you have earthquake coverage, coverage may apply)

Collapse, other than as provided in Additional Coverages 8. – We cover risk of direct physical loss to covered property involving collapse of a building or any part of a building caused only by one or more of the following: (a) Perils Insured Against in Coverage C-Personal Property. These perils apply to covered building and personal property for loss insured by this Additional Coverage; (b) hidden decay; (c) hidden insect or vermin damage; (d)weight of contents, equipment, animals or people; (e) weight of rain which collects on a roof; (f) use of defective material or methods in construction, remodeling or renovation if the collapse occurs during the course of the construction, remodeling or renovation. 

The limitations of coverage is quite extensive for home insurance, you must read your policy carefully to determine if there are any possible gaps in coverage.  Insurance companies will not allow you to backdate or purchase coverage after the claim happens.  You must do that before the claim happens.

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